User blog comment:Dopp/Upcoming change: Removing the divider between the Edit button and Content/@comment-8072-20110429052533/@comment-10370-20110429233819

From the start of our work on the new skin, we've always said that the design of the site is an ongoing creative process. The design that we released in late September was a step in that process, and was never presented as the "final answer". User feedback, data collection and product testing are all part of that ongoing process.

The goals that we described last year are still very much valid -- we want to help people see that wikis are living sites created by people. As you can see from many of the comments on this blog, some wiki contributors found that "last edited by" information very helpful. (Check out the comment right under this one to see three people who were sad to see the last edited info go.) Taking out the "last edited by" dropdown was a hard decision for us, and we spent time doing a second test to make sure that it was the right choice here.

I think it's likely that we'll find another way to represent that "last edited by" information on the page. It's helpful information for many people -- including me, I miss it terribly! -- but the a/b tests that we did over the last couple months indicate that that was the wrong placement for it.

So -- the site has changed since the big reskin last fall, and it will continue to change, pretty much on a weekly basis. We have lots of features planned, lots of new ideas and lots of improvements to existing site elements. Sometimes a change will roll back, or be replaced with a better idea, as we keep testing and listening and learning. This is all part of the same creative process.