Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I was alarmed when I heard the click rates: 1%. That's an enormous number of clicks, considerably higher than I expected with the large number of things available for folks to click on. To hear that it went down considerably with Vector—well, if nothing else, it is a possible objective indication that the change has reduced the usability of the site.
To clarify, no current statistics have been released. The "0.28%" figure refers to use of Vector before the official roll-out (when the interwiki links became collapsed by default, if I'm not mistaken). The disparity is attributable to the fact that most Vector users were participants in an opt-in, English-language beta test.
For the record, I agree with everything else that you wrote.
David Levy