I have made a suggestion to the WMF Board. See
In the near future, I plan to look at the policies surrounding office
actions as they apply to product decisions made by local communities, and
will likely make a request to the Board that they review those policies as
a separate matter.
Cheers,
Pine
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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
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