Oliver,
Have we looked at this for the sister wikis? Can we? Some of those
could do with search functionality for their portals, let alone some
good result sets. It would be reasonable that the work that the
discovery team was undertaking was being applied fully across the
Wikimedia sites.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all,
A couple of weeks ago we ran an A/B test on the Wikipedia portal
(
www.wikipedia.org) to test whether a more prominent search box,
optionally combined with additional metadata such as small images in
the search results, would increase the rate at which people clicked
through from the portal to one of our projects.
We are delighted to say that the test showed a 1-5% increase in the
clickthrough rate, where both a prominent search box and metadata is
used. Accordingly, once we've resolved concerns about the design's
non-JavaScript usability, we hope to deploy it for all users.
The report can be seen at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Portal_Test.pdf - please
let me know if you have any questions.
For Discovery Analytics,
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Oliver Keyes
Count Logula
Wikimedia Foundation
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