On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ok I'm a little late to the party but why doesnt
media viewer just use the
same very effective layout of the category slide show thats currently
operating on Commons given it has already solved all these issues
I am even more late but just wanted to point out that the problems in
MediaViewer were identified by click tracking and user tests; before
performing those, the interface did not seem problematic. Given that no
such analysis has been done on the category viewer gadget, I would be
skeptical towards claims that it performs any better.
(More generally, I think there is a tendency in the community to be
overconfident in the effectiveness of the current interface, and a tendency
in WMF to dismiss it off-hand. More curiosity as to what works well and
what not would be a welcome change on both sides.)