I have made a suggestion to the WMF Board. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Sugge...
In the near future, I plan to look at the policies surrounding office actions as they apply to product decisions made by local communities, and will likely make a request to the Board that they review those policies as a separate matter.
Cheers, Pine
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com
wrote:
That doesn't, however, help the concern that millions of users are
pulling
up the images without immediately seeing the license requirements and
author information.
To the contrary, Media Viewer displays the license, author and source as
an
always visible part of the image. On a typical file page, you have to scroll down to find any of this information; most users won't do that, if what they are looking for is the image, and that is available without scrolling. (It is well known in web usability http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/ that
relatively
little attention is given to things above the fold; one of the main benefits of Media Viewer is that it brings the most important things
above
it.)
Also, many people might not use file pages simply because they are so slow. A famous experiment by Google http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html showed that lowering loading speed by 200 ms resulted in 0.3% less interactions (on
the
English Wikipedia's scale, that would be about 20,000 thumbnail clicks a day). MediaViewer improves image loading time by a full second for the median user.
George has made a useful contribution here, in that his points appear to be actually testable.
Could the WMF or someone else look into user-testing how the MediaViewer (and variations on it) affects the average reader's perception and consciousness of the licensing information?
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