Howie, Thanks for your detailed message. I appreciate your efforts of trying to listen to the feedback from the community. However, even after listening to the discussion in the office today, and after reading your message, I still fail to understand the logic behind these decisions. I'm going to try and summarize your paragraphs into a few sentences; please tell me if I got something wrong
In a paragraph, you explain it is your belief that in Monobook, the long list of languages made it difficult for the user to identify this area as "a list of languages". In the following paragraph, you say you tracked the clicks in the sidebar in Monobook, and found that less than 1% of users clicked on a language link. You then explain you hid the list of languages because this number showed it wasn't used. Perhaps I'm just beating a dead horse, but, looking at these two arguments, a fairly reasonable hypothesis to make is that users don't click on the languages links *because* they don't realize it's there. A fairly reasonable design decision would be to try and make it more discoverable, and you could measure the impact easily by seeing if more users click on the language links. Instead, you chose to hide the list completely. I still fail to see how this decision could be an attempt at fixing the issue you had discovered. Maybe users don't think of a traffic jam as "a list of cars". But showing an empty road hardly makes things better. -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] http://www.gpaumier.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l