Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:05:18 +0200
From: MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd:
Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!
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2012/3/25 En Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>
Also, Steven, could you send the link to the place
where we can look at
your ?not-so-secret effort to make the current user talk template system
more human?? I?m not clear on which page is the main one,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing or
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Template_testing. Is
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Template_testing the main
page and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing the list of
past tests? There?s also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Engagement which looks like
it?s a coordinating page for multiple projects but some of the information
is a bit outdated. I think it would be helpful for all three of these pages
to articulate their relationships with each other more clearly and be
updated to reflect current information, including clearly stating which
staff members are the appropriate contacts for each page.
Thanks,
Pine
I can answer this question easily: The first sentences of the pages in
question say it: The meta page is "a interwiki hub for previous and
on-going A/B testing experiments with Wikipedia templates", and the page on
Incubator "is a page for coordinating A/B testing of user talk templates
here on the Incubator. This project is also going on at several others
wikis, and for a full list and summarized results, see Meta."
Regards,
MF-Warburg
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MF-Warburg, at the risk of making myself sound unusually dense in front
of everyone on foundation-l, I'm not yet an expert on cross-wiki Wikipedia
research so I need some clarification. My understanding is that Incubator
is only for entire new wikis and not experiments for current wikis, but I
thought that the A/B testing is intended for implementation on the
current English Wikipedia. Would I be correct in restating those sentences
as "a hub for A/B testing experiments with Wikipedia templates on all
wikis" and "a page for coordinating A/B testing of user talk templates
ONLY here on the Incubator for new language Wikipedias"?
Thanks,
Pine