On 31 October 2011 12:30, Oliver
Keyes<scire.facias(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure about that specific change, but
one illustration might be the
> Article Feedback Tool, which contains a "you know you can edit, right?"
> thing. Off the top of my head I think 17.4 percent of the 30-40,000 people
> who use it per day attempt to edit as a result of that inducement.
> Admittedly only 2 percent of them*succeed*, but it's not a lack of
> motivation, methinks.
What's the definition of "succeed" there
- they save an edit with a change?
Is that 2% of the 17.4%, or 2% of those giving feedback?
I wonder if there's a way to detect a failure to edit and ask what went wrong.
In a text driven interface it is a little difficult to float an
interactive window asking if a reader saw any errors and if they'd like
to fix them - yet that's the level most readers are on.
We must also remember that the wiki edit interface and markup can be a
little intimidating to a newbie, so opening an edit window and making no
changes may be more common than we think. Are there any stats on this?