Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia

Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by dmitriid on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:45AM (#16901919)

> When you evaluate features using engagement metrics

No-no-no. Stop right there. "Engagement metrics" are the worst kind of metrics. Engagement means next to nothing. It just means that a user interacted with something. Was it good? Was it bad? Was it intentional? Was it by mistake? "Engagement metrics" answer none of that.

And yet... They are the easiest metrics to collect and too many companies use them as if they were meaningful.

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by notriddle on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:28AM (#16903198)

I'm case you were curious, WM has done more user testing than just the engagement metrics:

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Re...

Not sure what it says about them that they're mentioning worthless numbers instead of the way more useful data they got back during this survey.

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by mattkrause on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:59AM (#16902982)

If you hadn’t stopped right there, you might have seen the sarcasm in the rest of the post!

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