Talk:Reading/Strategy/Strategy Process/Testing

Please feel free to list comments, questions and feedback? Would you like to add further tests? Would you like to adjust testing conditions? Share your thoughts!--Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 22:48, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Makes more sense to me
Hey M, this looks a lot clearer. Thanks for your work on this! The "About" section works. One thing: In the first bullet point, it says "beautiful" twice. -Rdicerb (WMF) (talk) 21:31, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Re: Allow readers to interact with content
"Allow" is misleading, all users can alter our wikis. "Activate more users" is what you seem to say. Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: Traffic from design
You should also monitor the opposite, i.e. what redesigns killed the traffic. I still have to see a good analysis of the effects of the Flickr redesigns, for instance, which upset so many pro users and wikimedians. Would be interesting indeed to find out. Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: Deliver a radical reading feature
WMF has often delivered "radical features" quickly, the problem is that they were catastrophes. I don't think this point is useful for anything other than proving WMF's irresponsibility (no need; users are already convinced). Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: interactive content
Please stop using this term, which you presumably borrowed from some non-free knowledge industry. All our content is interactive, we host wikis. (Well, except the WMF marketing sites in HTML.) Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: think we have forums/comments
w:Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not. I hope you won't be spreading false information about Wikipedia. The community doesn't like its careful and long-running communication efforts to be reversed by cannon-style incorrect propaganda by WMF. Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Abbreviations
Please don't use "WP". Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: Comparison of ourselves against top 3 performers
A comparison is not a proof of anything. Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: hold for the top 5 language Wikipedias
This sounds like something that should involve Wikidata. If you tight yourself to 5 wikis only, the solution may not scale. Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: readers preferring/requiring content in their local languages
This sentence should be the test and is interesting. The currently proposed condition «There is relevant content available in local languages» is instead our final goal. What we need to break is the vicious circle by which users don't find things on a local wiki (or never reach it because of Google) then stop searching there altogether then reduce contribution even further. Useful tests could be whether Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * a set of users (a focus group?) can be made to use local search more (knowing they'll also be provided results from other languages where missing locally);
 * promoting localised content can successfully drive away some (useless) traffic from the English Wikipedia;
 * visits moved away from the English Wikipedia (or other non-local language Wikipedia) result in higher activation in the mid term (most English Wikipedia users don't have sufficient language competency to contribute there, inter alia; contributing to wikis in their native languages is supposed to be easier and should be more likely).

Re: Identify trustworthiness
We never tell people to trust Wikipedia, please choose another term. (I saw such a measure tracked e.g. by Wikimedia Sweden, but that's because it's an externally provided official statistic and they can work with what they have.) Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: Verify whether advertising improves odds
What sort of advertising do you have in mind? Something like m:Grants:IEG/What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about Wikipedia. Cameroon pilot project? Does that suffice as a test or do you have something broader in mind? Nemo 07:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)