Yup we'd like to use an instance somewhere that we can do some fun and
interesting things to the Portal page that wouldn't affect all of our users
- only those users that want to go to that page. We've got a few things to
figure on for this approach...more to come on this subject!

Cheers,

Deb

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, that's what we've been talking about in the thread on setting up a
> beta instance on labs.
>
> On 26 January 2016 at 17:54, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> At some point, we might want to try to figure out how to implement some
>> kind of "public alpha testing" platform, where interested users could
>> preview upcoming features, and provide feedback before they go to a wider
>> audience. It would need to be lighter weight, and earlier in the process,
>> than the existing "beta features" system.
>>
>> I'm not sure what that would look like, and we would have to figure out a
>> cost-effective way to do it, but it seems potentially valuable.
>>
>>
>> Kevin Smith
>> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Luigi Assom <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Oliver, Deborah,
>>>
>>> I see your point, thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Luigi,
>>>>
>>>> The A/B tests that we run are to specifically get a sampling of our
>>>> audience that uses the portal page <http://www.wikipedia.org> and then
>>>> log what their actions are on that page, in relation to what we happen to
>>>> be testing. We don't want folks going to the test on purpose and skewing
>>>> the random sampling.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps...!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Deb
>>>>
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>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Gotcha! Well, that test is over, I'm afraid :). I know we do have
>>>>> methods for sort of forcing a session into a test population (for browsing
>>>>> purposes) but I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of making that
>>>>> available for _non_testing purposes. It kind of defeats the point of an 
>>>>> A/B
>>>>> test if the population is self-selected and features people aware of the
>>>>> context of the test.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 January 2016 at 12:34, Luigi Assom <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @ Oliver,
>>>>>> about A/B test I refer to the email of 13 Jan 2016
>>>>>> by Deborah Tankersley
>>>>>> [discovery] New A/B testing on Wikipedia Portal page
>>>>>> however, yes I would like tobe included in A/B tests in general, not
>>>>>> a particular one.
>>>>>> I m mostrly interested in full text search, knowledge discovery and
>>>>>> discovery of topics' context.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Luca Nemo
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Generators
>>>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not much clear to me yet, sorry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will rephrase my question:
>>>>>> I would like to do a full-text search (FTS) query, have the pageids
>>>>>> and decorators.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also would like to have results hit (I see them in API:Search,
>>>>>> list=search); I would like to access the page_Ids of articles (see them 
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> generators).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to understand if the backend between two is different,
>>>>>> since I've read list=search use an ElasticSearch instance, and it seems 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> me it is faster and better FTS (not tried extensively, through).
>>>>>> Also, list=search offers a snippet and may be less expensive for wiki
>>>>>> server instead of quering an exerpt - is it the case?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I pass:
>>>>>> params = {'action':'query', 'generator':'search', 'gsrnamespace' : 0,
>>>>>> 'gsrsearch' : keywords, 'gsrlimit' : 20 , 'prop' : 'pageimages|extracts',
>>>>>> 'pilimit' : 'max', 'exintro' : '', 'explaintext' : '', 'exsentences' : 3,
>>>>>> 'exlimit' : 'max', 'redirects' : '' }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> would like to do the same with list=search.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you please show an example of FTS with list=search ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not clear to me how coudl I pass a list to a generator, if it is the
>>>>>> case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which A/B test are you referring to? We have tried quite a few :). Or
>>>>>>> do you just generally want to be included in the A/B tests?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 26 January 2016 at 03:44, Luigi Assom <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > Hello,
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > I have few question for discovery portal and API:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > - possible to be included in the 0.05% who tried the A/B test?
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > - do you have or plan to have a feature for discovery *between*
>>>>>>> topics? E.g.
>>>>>>> > suggestions connecting two topics.
>>>>>>> > I ve been working on this.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > - Which is the difference in API:Search between:
>>>>>>> >  list=search and generator=search ?
>>>>>>> > The first seems to be faster to me.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > - I need to fetch the pageIDs of the results, and have them already
>>>>>>> > redirected and decorated with images and snipped/excerpt.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > With generator=search I could do it, I can't with list=search
>>>>>>> > Could you help in grasping query parameters?
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > #generator=search
>>>>>>> > params = {'action':'query', 'generator':'search', 'gsrnamespace' :
>>>>>>> 0,
>>>>>>> > 'gsrsearch' : keywords, 'gsrlimit' : 20 , 'prop' :
>>>>>>> 'pageimages|extracts',
>>>>>>> > 'pilimit' : 'max', 'exintro' : '', 'explaintext' : '',
>>>>>>> 'exsentences' : 3,
>>>>>>> > 'exlimit' : 'max', 'redirects' : '' }
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > #list=search
>>>>>>> > params = {'action':'query', 'list':'search', 'srsearch' : keywords,
>>>>>>> > 'srlimit' : 20 , 'srprop' : 'size', 'indexpageids' : 1 } ??
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > I m trying with sand box with no success, only search results are
>>>>>>> hit, no
>>>>>>> > matter of
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=Albert%20Einstein&srnamespace=0&srinfo=totalhits%7Csuggestion%7Crewrittenquery&srprop=redirecttitle%7Credirectsnippet&indexpageids=&generator=images
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > - I also found 0&formatversion=2' is another param used in
>>>>>>> search=list
>>>>>>> > Has it a special meaning?
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
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