User blog comment:Toughpigs/My Home -- new feature launches on Wednesday/@comment-10370-20091004173149

We've been looking at the clicks on the sidebar link too. I didn't mention it, because the effect there is pretty small, another .5% of My Home views.

To answer your question about giving wiki communities choices: There are a lot of things about the site that are individual choices, rather than community choices. For example, the Monaco skin is an individual choice; everyone sees it, unless they switch to Monobook in their preferences. The same is true for a lot of features that are connected to the Monaco skin, like the Rich Text Editor, the Category select feature, the new save bar, and My Home. Some of those are an inherent part of the Monaco skin; some you can turn off individually in preferences.

We evaluate these new features very carefully, to gauge the impact on the readers and contributors. Part of that evaluation is listening to what people say about the feature, and part of it is looking at the stats to see what people do with it. We know that some editors don't like the redirect, and we're definitely taking that into account.

The feature's only been out for about ten days, so we can't say anything definitive about whether it's going to change or not. It'll probably be about a month before the evaluation is complete; I'll post more when we know more.