On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Todd Allen
<toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That doesn't, however, help the concern that
millions of users are
pulling
up the images without immediately seeing the license requirements and
author information.
To the contrary, Media Viewer displays the license, author and source as an
always visible part of the image. On a typical file page, you have to
scroll down to find any of this information; most users won't do that, if
what they are looking for is the image, and that is available without
scrolling. (It is well known in web usability
<http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/> that relatively
little attention is given to things above the fold; one of the main
benefits of Media Viewer is that it brings the most important things above
it.)
Also, many people might not use file pages simply because they are so
slow. A
famous experiment by Google
<http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html> showed
that
lowering loading speed by 200 ms resulted in 0.3% less interactions (on the
English Wikipedia's scale, that would be about 20,000 thumbnail clicks a
day). MediaViewer improves image loading time by a full second for the
median user.
George has made a useful contribution here, in that his points appear to be
actually testable.
Could the WMF or someone else look into user-testing how the MediaViewer
(and variations on it) affects the average reader's perception and
consciousness of the licensing information?
Thanks,
Pharos