We haven't but I would really love to! Ultimately it means a set of infrastructural changes to our logging, and I imagine(?) how we deploy tests since each portal has a different repository, but I would love to see us test on at least one sister site as well as the wikipedia portal. The product manager's call, though - Deb?
On 29 January 2016 at 07:09, billinghurst <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
