On 10 July 2014 19:23, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/07/14 18:01, David Gerard wrote:
> OTOH, typical mind fallacy is rampant everywhere
and the results of an
> actual decent user survey would probably surprise everyone.
That was kind of my point - as much as editors do tend
deal more directly
with the readers, we've basically got two (rather biased) sides who both
think they know what readers want and thus try to speak for them. This may
not even be an issue, by itself, but unfortunately it's becoming a rather
common tactic among some WMF staff to simply dismiss community feedback
saying things like that the editors simply don't speak for the readers. But
if this is really the case, what gives the WMF the right to speak for the
readers either?
Personally I'm getting rather tired of this.
I concur that there's a bit much reasoning from no data, and we could
do with some.
Anecdotally, (a) I don't mind the new viewer (b) I know a lot of
people who've said they love it (c) I know a few who've said they hate
it. So yeah, real user surveys needed!
- d.