On 5 June 2010 02:03, Howie Fung <hf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The Usability team discussed this issue at length this afternoon. We > listened closely to the feedback and have come up with solution which we > hope will work for everyone. It's not a perfect solution, but we think > it's a reasonable compromise. > > From your response it seems to me that the usability team looks at the iw-list as user interface. To me it is not primarily a user interface, it is information about the subject similar to e.g. the categories.
By one glance at the list I can see that the theme has not been written about in many languages yet, or I can see that a huge number of languages have an article about the current theme. I can discover that a language, even one where I cannot read the letters, have found this theme important enough to write about it. Neither of these pieces of information require me to click on the links to be discovered, nor do they invite me to click any more than the edit links that are present at each section heading. (And the latter are pure user interface, no information). I have a feeling that the group of users that were observed were probably native english speakers using their native language Wikipedia, which by chance happens to be the largest in size. That is the Wikipedia that receives approximately 50% of the total visits. That leaves just under 50% for other languages. However, even part of the visits to the largest are from speakers of other languages. My interpretation of your data is thus that it comes from less than half the total numbers of users. A special half at that, especially when it comes to the iw-list. There are some suggestions that the geolocation could be used to customize this. To anyone with such ideas, I would just suggest first getting on a plane to a place with a script you dont understand, go to a internet cafe and attempt to make an advanced search using google. I would be surprised if you still felt it was a good idea. An important point about the iw-links is that they might be important to use as links just for a minority, but that to that minority they are of vital importance. Your compromise is not good enough for that minority. You might as well remove the edit links because just a minority of visitors to this site actually uses them. Hans A. Rosbach (User Haros with no as home wiki) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
