[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

[Brion Vibber]

El 5/8/09 7:22 PM, Thomas Dalton escribió:
> Cross posting to wikitech-l
>
> 2009/5/8 Ian Woollard<ian.woollard at gmail.com>:
>> Well, the wikipedia is big... google is big also.
>>
>> One of the tricks google use is they try stuff out on victims... I
>> mean users. They pick a small percentage of the internet and do
>> something slightly different for them, and see if it works or not. The
>> advantage of only doing it for a small number is that it means you can
>> write the test with prototyping tools, rather than having to make it
>> run fast, and you'll have a lot less complaints if it doesn't work
>> very well. It also means you can do back-back comparisons stuff like:
>> 'we tried this, and it showed a 23% improvement in referencing'.
>>
>> I think if at all practical, the wikipedia needs to start doing stuff like that.
>
> That sounds like an excellent idea to me. Is it achievable?

Such A/B testing is planned for various things where feasible. Some 
things will be easier to do this way than others. :)

-- brion