On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
For what it's worth, the line " For one thing, they can turn out negative, in which case we will have been spared a philosophical debate about openness." comes off as very snarky and also entirely the wrong approach.
Debates about the Wikimedia ethos tend to be highly subjective and thus costly both in terms of time and emotional resources. Measuring whether banners work is fairly simple and objective. It makes sense to perform the cheapest prerequisite checks first, to minimize total cost.