[Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

[Bence Damokos]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:17 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can someone from the Foundation confirm whether any testing was done
> > with people who would actually be affected by the decision to remove
> > the language links - or only on people who wouldn't care? If only the
> > latter, then the stated reason for removal would be in serious need of
> > urgent review.
>
> I won't speak for the Foundation, but my understanding is that sampled
> click-rates were measured on the live site, so it would have been a
> representative sample of our visitors.
>
> In that case, I would also be interested to know whether the behaviour was
any different on projects other than the English Wikipedia... (and whether
there was any variation in the click rates based on country of origin or
browser language).

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Bence Damokos