Hi

I wanted to provide a follow back on the banner issue.

Joseph Seddon has been _incredibly helpful_ on this. Whilst he confirmed he indeed drop the banner visibility to its minimum on purpose (sigh), he took time to propose and implement a new banner proposition and a AB testing system to test banner efficiency.

Lot's of appreciation for his help on this. I apologized to him for what was over-reacting. It was the disappointment from discovering what was wrong after several days wondering.

Florence

For those with loads of curiousity

Results for the AB testing may be seen here : https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org&platf... https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org&platform=desktop&agent=user&start=2016-12-21&end=2016-12-21&pages=Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-c/en%7CCommons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-d/en%7CCommons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-c/fr%7CCommons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-d/fr

With the new banner, Desktop see's a 100-150% improvement in traffic.

Mobile is a mixed result. With an slight 5% improvement in English but a 2-5% decline in french.

The new banner :

EN : https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:What_links_here/mr&ban... FR : https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:What_links_here/mr&ban...

The meta page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&subac...