Only one of those four confused users is clearly confused by a fundraising
banner. With the other three, that's just a guess. It may be a very
plausible guess, but I think we need more than guesses before we change the
way we fundraise.
On Dec 13, 2011 3:53 PM, "Ken Arromdee" <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLPN#Peggy_Meggars_.28archeologist.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Notice…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Notice…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Notice…
Four *separate* incidents where users mistook the fundraising banner ad for
an illustration that is part of the article.
As is usual for lousy user interfaces, a lot of us are probably going to
blame this on the user being too stupid to read the page properly, as if
there was no such thing as a bad user interface. Often the image in the
banner is the most prominent thing on the page, and it's located directly
above
the article title in a place that in many other contexts would mean it
really does go with the article.
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