On May 23, 2014 1:44 PM, "Jon Robson" <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
snip...
It's hard to measure the impact of the talk bubble when it is
displayed like this. I'd be interested to do some sort of A/B test
around it to see whether more people visit the talk page when the
number is shown - I'm not sure if Growth has any plans to do this.
I think the following is controversial, but I hope not: talk pages are anti
wiki in nature, and more of a necessary evil if disagreements can't be
solved through collaborative editing than something we should promote the
visibility of. They are a last resort, and I would be perfectly happy if a
newcomer never knew they existed for a long while.
I would be very reluctant about any change that might cause a newcomer to
edit a talk page and suggest a change (that probably nobody will read, and
if they do probably won't respond to) than just edit the page.
If any A/B testing is done, any marginal loss of mainspace edits, for any
number of extra talk page views or edits, should imo be counted as a
regression.
Too rambling; u wot m8?
Before setting up A/B tests, please consider and discuss success
conditions. They nay be unintuitive.
--Martijn
Also I wonder if this is something Flow is thinking
about.
Either way can we make a decision and either kill this code, or bring
it into beta mode?
[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco?mobileaction=alpha
[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu?mobileaction=alpha
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