User blog comment:VickyC/Intro to Wikia’s Development Process/@comment-655-20111014093307

Actually, this blog entry explains nothing about '"how Wikia staff members make decisions about what projects we work on and why".

Let's take the current "message wall" project as an example. How did you decide that user talk pages need changing?
 * Did you get a huge number of support requests complaining about user talk? If so, can we get some numbers and quotes?
 * Did you A/B test? Obviously not the whole feature, but perhaps with some less intrusive changes to talk pages?
 * Did you do a survey? If so, what group of people was asked, how many replies did you get, what were the exact questions being asked?
 * Did you just randomly click on user talk pages, find instructions on how and where to leave new messages, and from that draw the conclusion that the whole system doesn't work?