On 05/20/2010 07:57 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 20 May 2010 15:51, William Pietriwilliam@scissor.com wrote:
But assuming a 99:1 novice to expert ratio for our traffic, the current approach must have saved an awful lot of extra clicks from novices.
Ahh ... do we have numbers from our logs for that assertion?
Good question. I should say that I have no inside knowledge on this project, and am speaking purely as a random Wikipedian who does web stuff for a living. That's just my educated guess, both on ratios and clicks.
Personally, I'd love to see more data, both as a driver for interface decisions and so that we can measure the results. But realistically, I can't hold Wikipedia to the same standards I hold my other clients.
Wikipedia was run on a shoestring for years, with the main goal being survival under massive load. It's easy enough for a low-traffic startup to add decent instrumentation, but adding it to an existing system that's been heavily optimized for high volume and incredibly low cost? Getting good data there will likely be a lot of work.
William