...that is, if it is prioritized for a link from the portal homepage, anyway.
On Monday, January 25, 2016, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: > For domain name and hosting: should it be a production domain name on a > production host? > > On Friday, January 22, 2016, Julien Girault <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page. >> >> The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our portal >> page, things that are completely different than what the current portal >> page looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But >> without imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a >> link to this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users >> can have an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the >> experiments their default. >> >> >> >> We would have two trains: >> >> - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on the >> official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn. >> >> - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also collect >> traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also >> implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype page >> that points to a Phab ticket where community can add comments/feedback). >> >> To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I uploaded >> some of my research time work: >> https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/ >> >> Pay closer attention to: >> Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid) >> <https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/react-top9-cards/>Trending Showing >> top 10 articles (full screen) >> <https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/react-top10-fs/> >> >> >> This would allow us to think outside the box and test different >> layouts/features, with real users who chose to. >> >> >> >> This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think >> about it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or beta >> portal, or something else. >> >> Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go >> towards making this happen and what we should name it. >> >> Thanks! >> Julien >> >
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