On 11/13/2011 06:46 PM, Platonides wrote:
On 13/11/11 01:44, William Allen Simpson wrote:
On 11/12/11 6:45 PM, Platonides wrote:
When users get a message on their commons talk page, they will receive an email informing of that.
In my personal experience, that's only true for the *first* message. If you don't check Talk after that, then you don't get any more emails.
In my case, the first message was a welcome. I didn't need to see the welcome. My guess is other more casual users don't bother either, so they won't see any deletion messages.
How did you know it was a welcome message? And why were you so sure that you didn't need to read it (you know, that welcome message actually includes useful information) and it was ok to ignore its content and further ones?
Big welcome messages full of links make people's eyes glaze over. That's not just William Allen Simpson, that's lots of people. They see the headline "Welcome" and a bunch of text and skim it, don't see anything immediately urgent or relevant to their needs, and figure it's kind of like an End User License Agreement or other big walls of text that are not really necessary to read right then, which is usually a reasonable assumption. It seems reasonable to mention and try to fix this user interface & New Editor Engagement issue. And this is related to the work that the Community folks, like Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling, are doing with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UWTEST
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing
so those might be fruitful places for interested folks to collaborate on fixing this problem.