Thanks, Huji, to answer your question - this will be a short series of tests on Wikipedia that will display additional relevant search results across wikis in the same language to a selected number of users that fall into our bucketing schema. Not everyone will see the new results every time if they land on a search results listing page. 

Cheers,

Deb


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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it would be best if we test it in at least one RTL wiki. I will mention this in the VP of Persian Wikipedia (FA WP).

If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester.

Huji

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley <dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,

The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and are of interest to users.

We've written up the details [1], came up with a multitude of designs [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests [3] that we'd like to run.

These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption of the test group.

We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would want to help us test these new search results across projects in their language. Interested community members might want to post something to their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest. 

Please post on our testing talk page [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers! 

Thanks!


[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing

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