...that is, if it is prioritized for a link from the
portal homepage,
anyway.
On Monday, January 25, 2016, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
For domain name and hosting: should it be a production domain name on a
production host?
On Friday, January 22, 2016, Julien Girault <jgirault(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page.
>
> The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our portal
> page, things that are completely different than what the current portal page
> looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But without
> imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a link to
> this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users can have
> an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the experiments their
> default.
>
>
>
> We would have two trains:
>
> - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on the
> official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn.
>
> - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also collect
> traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also
> implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype
page
> that points to a Phab ticket where community can add comments/feedback).
>
> To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I uploaded
> some of my research time work:
>
https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/
>
> Pay closer attention to:
> Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid)
> Trending Showing top 10 articles (full screen)
>
>
> This would allow us to think outside the box and test different
> layouts/features, with real users who chose to.
>
>
>
> This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think
> about it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or beta
> portal, or something else.
>
> Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go
> towards making this happen and what we should name it.
>
> Thanks!
> Julien
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