Good Q. I guess my question would be about the practical costs in setup, deployment and patch time for a prod service.
On 25 January 2016 at 11:24, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: > ...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]> >> 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) >>> Trending Showing top 10 articles (full screen) >>> >>> >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
