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
