[Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

[Zack Exley]

Unacceptable!


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:52 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Zack Exley wrote:
> > We just were playing around with the hover banners to see what kind of
> > effect they might have. They're not up now. And probably won't come back.
>
> Your comment reminds me of discussions from earlier this year with the
> Editor engagement experiments (E3) team about treating Wikimedia users as
> colleagues, not as customers.[1]
>
> The auto-expand banners were unacceptable. As I'm currently viewing
> en.wikipedia.org, the banners _continue_ to block portions of the page
> content as I scroll down the page. This is also unacceptable.
>
> Enough "playing around." You're annoying readers and editors alike with
> these banners.
>
> MZMcBride
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experiments
>
>
>
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Zack Exley
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Wikimedia Foundation
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