Dear colleagues,
I wanted to remind us all of the importance of learning from when our plans and efforts don't succeed, whether due to mistakes or just an experimental hypothesis turning out to not be the case.
We at the Wikimedia Foundation have had such an experiment a few months ago, and an idea we thought had potential turned out to have none of the hoped-for impact. We wrote it up and drew some (I think) interesting learning points from it, including possibly next steps for those who may want to experiment along similar lines.
The learning is featured in a Wikimedia Blog post here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/02/english-wikipedia-editor-pilot-philippi...
which also links to the full report on Meta. I am also pleased at the discussion the blog post has already generated.
Cheers,
Asaf