Hi everyone,
We appreciate the ongoing conversations about Media Viewer, and wanted to give you a quick update on this project.
This week, we’ve been discussing practical ways to address community concerns on the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons RfCs — and improve metrics used to establish the default configuration for this tool.
We would like to propose a new feature which we think can address many of the issues we’ve heard so far: the Viewing Options Panel (1) would let you quickly disable (or enable) Media Viewer. It would prominently display a ‘cog’ icon at the top right corner of the screen, as shown in the feature's mockup (2) and rough prototype (3).
Clicking on that icon would display a settings panel with two viewing options: * 'View quickly’ — enable Media Viewer (or keep it enabled) * 'View all the details’ — disable Media Viewer and show the file page instead
This would make it much easier for users to decide for themselves if they want Media Viewer enabled or not. It would also allow us to collect better user data on whether or not this tool is useful -- which can inform our discussions about default state for different user groups. To that end, we plan to track the number of enable and disable events by user group on the existing Opt-in/Opt-out Dashboard (4) (this dashboard now tracks clicks on the “Disable/Enable’ links at the bottom of Media Viewer, which would be replaced by the Viewing Options Panel).
What do you think of this new feature? Does it seem worth developing at this time? Any suggestions for improvement?
We would greatly appreciate your feedback about the Viewing Options Panel on this multimedia mailing list, or on the Media Viewer discussion page:
We are also considering a controlled experiment on the English Wikipedia. We invite you to comment on that separate proposal on its research page. (5)
Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts and feedback on Media Viewer. Your comments are really helpful to us, and we look forward to working with you in coming days to improve this tool together.
To be continued,
Fabrice and the Multimedia Team
(1) Viewing Options Panel - Proposed Spec: https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/787
(2) Viewing Options Panel - Mockup: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Media_Viewer_-_Viewing_Options_Panel...
(3) Viewing Options Panel - Rough Prototype: http://pauginer.github.io/prototypes/media-viewer/desk/disabling-settings/in...
(4) Opt-in/Opt-out Dashboard: http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv#opt_in_and_opt_out-grap...
(5) Controlled Experiment Proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Media_Viewer_preference_elicitation
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- 'View quickly’ — enable Media Viewer (or keep it enabled)
I don't know if "view quickly" is the best choice of words here. The relative speeds of the two features are about equal (With differences probably in the tenth of a second range). In fact different people seem to disagree on whether or not media viewer or file page is perceptually faster.
However, I don't have any suggestions for better wording...
--bawolff
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:01:33PM -0300, Brian Wolff wrote:
However, I don't have any suggestions for better wording...
"Preview on article page" / "Go to file page"
Editors seeking to turn this off should know what a file page is, right?
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Mark Holmquist mtraceur@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:01:33PM -0300, Brian Wolff wrote:
However, I don't have any suggestions for better wording...
"Preview on article page" / "Go to file page"
Editors seeking to turn this off should know what a file page is, right?
One of the common unsupported assumptions in the discussions around editor vs. reader preferences is to assume that all logged-in users have editor-ish behavior patterns. English Wikipedia has at least four hundred thousand active users a month (active in the sense that they visit the site), only a quarter of whom actually make any edit, only a fraction of whom make a significant number of edits... It seems very likely to me that the huge majority of logged in users have usage patterns (and a level of understanding of wiki terminology) more similar to what we attribute to the average reader.
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