Yup, we'd like to move forward with updating the sister wiki pages as well
- once we've determined the "good" stuff on the Wikipedia portal site. Stay
tuned! :)
Cheers,
Deb
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We haven't but I would really love to! Ultimately
it means a set of
infrastructural changes to our logging, and I imagine(?) how we deploy
tests since each portal has a different repository, but I would love
to see us test on at least one sister site as well as the wikipedia
portal. The product manager's call, though - Deb?
On 29 January 2016 at 07:09, billinghurst <billinghurstwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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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