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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:54:38 -0400
From: Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX
and such
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No one will argue these days that the WMF is short of money, so this is a
good opportunity for it to deploy some of that funding for a real impact.
The main page on the English Wikipedia is an ideal starting point for a
conscious effort at design evolution throughout Wikimedia. The Foundation
should solicit and pay for several design firms to submit efforts to the
main page contest, which is in dire need of some talented input. The
community can still select between them, let's just make sure they have a
number of great options.
We should by now have enough user data to be able to calculate user
retention rates by skin. It would be interesting to see how the
implementation of Vector affected editor retention rates.
WSC