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 -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > 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, > >> > >> -- > >> Oliver Keyes > >> Count Logula > >> Wikimedia Foundation > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> discovery mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discovery mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >
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