On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.orgwrote:
One of the most important points here is about experimenting on users; and it should be taken seriously.
Loaded terminology. "Experimenting on wikis" is one thing, while "Experimenting on users" sounds BAD -- the lab rats will revolt! Obviously, testing changes to a web site means presenting alternatives to users of the web site and measuring outcomes.
(There is My preferences > Appearance > check "Exclude me from feature experiments"; though it's probable some artifacts will leak out, as happened for a few weeks in the bug he references.)
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