To your specific points:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Even once the reader gets there, how many clicks does it take to get to a
contributor's User Page, where they might state things like their name, and
what they like to work on? I went through about 4 clicks and gave up.
On the apps
it's accessible from the footer, and on the web view the link is given an
extremely prominent place in the UI, at the top of all articles (the "Last
edited by.." line).
IMO "Last edited by" does not indicate that there will be a list of all
contributors. Did you do any user testing to see if people make that
association? It sounds like a stretch, but I'd be interested to see
relevant data.
-Pete