If we knew how people read / used our content it would help the editor community determine how it should be structured.
Topic on Talk:Reading/Strategy/Kickoff
As part of the strategy process I believe one of the most important (if not the most) questions we are looking to answer from our readers is "Why are you reading this article?" so that we can learn why they are consuming the content. Is it because of checking a quick fact? Is it to quickly learn about something unknown? (definition & pictures) Is it to deeply research a topic? Is it general reading?
It is very important that we start to understand better our readers, to inform and create ways for editors to display the content and create better reading experiences.
This is a great point.
we had reader feedback, but the community was dismissive.
given the lag time for producing content, we might want to think about writing where the readers will be in the future. quickly responding to trending "news" is reactive.
Our work isn't jsut to let people find what they want to find. We must show readers things that they get interested in reading, even if they didn't try to find them.
We had an interesting piece that most people do not read beyond the lead. ~~~~
Here's the report I remember: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Which_parts_of_an_article_do_readers_read
Very insightful, IMO