On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 13:19, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
Hi all,
thank you for your summary, Guillaume. I would like to add to this a
question based on Jon's insightful email:
the research you did on clicks etc, was apparently only on the English
Wikipedia. Would it be an option to first do more research on how the links
are used on the other projects? Out of the >700 projects to choose from,
you
unfortunately picked one where the clicking is most likely to be very
different from all the other projects. Usually that is not a good basis to
build decisions for all 700 projects on. Besides that, it seems you
measured
logged in users (since you mention comparing monobook vs vector, it seems
that you measured people who switched before the Big Switch?) Perhaps you
want to actually do research on how anonymous users work.
There's a few other things that would be interesting:
* comparing with country
as well (to account for # languages people likely
know, wether they're likely to be browsing their own language wikipedia)
* effect of a long list of interwiki (altho you'd need to correct for wether
there's likely a language they know well/better then the version they're
currently reading) - I wonder if a long list makes it less likely for people
to click on something
* size of the article - do long articles interwikilinks get used less or
not?
henna