[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

Sun Mar 25 12:36:07 UTC 2012

2012/3/25 En Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com>

>
> 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
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Yes, experiments with English Wikipedia templates are done on the English
Wikipedia, and on Incubator, we are testing our local Welcome template. The
page on Meta lists all the tests that have been made or are currently
ongoing (for example, there were also tests on Portuguese Wikipedia).

Regards,
MF-Warburg