[OSM-talk] Things People Say (also Piwik)

[Michal Migurski]

On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Russ Nelson wrote:

>> 	http://mike.teczno.com/img/osm-homepage-sketch.jpg
> 
> How many of these have we seen? Maybe we need to just make these pages
> live, and change the default page to simply:
> 
> We're testing various front pages. Please check them out, and keep
> visiting the one you like (feel free to bookmark it and go there
> directly, or else click the checkmark and we'll give you a cookie that
> takes you there automatically):
> 
> Traditional page:  [ ] [small screenshot]
> 
> Michal Migurski's: [ ] [small screenshot]
> 
> Steve Coast's:     [ ] [small screenshot]
> 
> 
> And whomever else's looks reasonable.

Where's a larger version of Steve's? I seem to remember this from a long time ago.

The voting process could use A/B versions with uncookied users to see what kinds of behavior we see on each. Screenshots may not give people the information they need to make a worthwhile decision; the designs have to be used to make sense. This means they have to be built, which means effort and time.

Also to be clear, I'm not making the suggestion above to say "here's what the homepage should look like". I am saying that the wider world misunderstands the project as evidenced by the quotes that started this thread, the site has something to do with that, and speculating on what piece of the puzzle people are missing out on through the design.

Richard tells me that Piwik is where we can see search and visitor logs for the site and wiki. Is that something I can look at?

-mike.

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