On 2/11/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
I think they're all plausible suggestions, and I like most of them, especially renaming the community portal and making the printable version a tab or something else up at the top. I personally would keep "Recent changes", as it demonstrates to newbies that people can make things happen.
At least in my professional life, I'd user-test all of the suggestions to see how they play in Peoria. Then the ones that passed that I'd to A/B testing with a modest percent of the traffic to see which ones were clearly better by the numbers.
I'd be wary of applying the results of testing on smaller wikis directly to Wikipedia. In this case, "Recent changes" probably performs much better on smaller wikis.
Historically, are either of those things done with Wikipedia?
Usability testing on Wikipedia? Not that I know of.
Steve