Whoops, I missed that cc to the Ambassadors list. I hope that works out; it's probably less labor intensive than going to village pumps, especially if you do the work to translate messages for various language VPs.
Pine On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Deborah Tankersley < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pine, > > Thanks for the suggestion - I've already consulted with our Community > Liaisons and they suggested to reach out to the Discovery and > Wikitech-Ambassadors (part of my original email) lists to start. If we > don't get a few volunteers this way, we'll go directly to the Village Pumps > of several wikis and ask that way. :) > > Cheers, > > Deb > > > -- > deb tankersley > Product Manager, Discovery > irc: debt > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Deb, >> >> A quick suggestion. I have a feeling that the number of community members >> on the Discovery email list who could take your request to their home wikis >> is fairly small. It might make sense to have Discovery's Community Liaison >> (do you have one at the moment?) do outreach on village pumps. >> >> Regards, >> >> Pine >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < >> [email protected]> 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 >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements> [1], >>> came up with a multitude of designs >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design> >>> [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own >>> internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> >>> [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 >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> >>> [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_Re >>> sult_Improvements/Testing >>> >>> -- >>> deb tankersley >>> Product Manager, Discovery >>> irc: debt >>> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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