[Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Given that UNICEF has done proper usability studies. Given that they have
measured the success of the changes they made. We can be aware of the
lessons that were learned in this way. We can adopt the changes and learn
how it affects *our *smaller projects. When we cooperate with UNICEF, when
we apply the lessons learned we can expect to do better.

When 80% are considered to be a failure, when we identify a major reason
why, when we apply the lessons learned and these projects still fail, it is
not because of something that we could have done. I am raising awareness of
the issues we know we have with usability. I am involved in getting these
extensions tested so that people can safely adopt them. I urge the WMF to
allow projects to have the benefit of improved usability.

When projects choose to improve usability, we will get metrics on how this
makes a difference. We may learn what approaches work in which cultures and
not in others. It would be so cool if we could discuss these things because
we have this experience.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2008/11/30 Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Christiano Moreschi <
> moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >  Do we care that 80%
> > > of our projects are failing?
> > > Thanks,
> > >       GerardM
> >
> > No. Why should we? Nobody actually reads shit like the albanian wikibooks
> > (doesn't matter if that doesn't exist, you get my point). Such projects
> > exist purely the monomaniacal benefit of the editor(s), not any readers.
> Let
> > them all fail, with the exception of Wikipedias en,fr,de,ru,etc + wikt
> and
> > commons.
> >
> >
> I fail to see the purpose of this response except "rm -rf
> -exclude:en,fr,de,ru,etc + wikt and commons" which //isn't going to
> happen//.
>
> I care and I think we should have a usability expert. but I wouldn't call
> it
> failure (as i understand failure means something that used to work and now
> deteriorates or stops), it is more of a project that didn't start yet.
>
> --
> --alnokta
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