ouch,  that is not at all the result we were hoping for. Just goes to show
why we have to test these things and not just take a few examples that
perform badly in one set and look to do a better job with some different
options. Thanks for putting this together!


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> As mentioned previously, the current version of the Android app contains
> an A/B test where it presents "read more" suggestions to the user, based on
> (a) the standard "morelike" query, or (b) the new "opening_text" query.
>
> Here are the results from the last ~10 days of the test[0]:
> - The clickthrough rate using the default morelike query is (and has been)
> around 15%.
> - With the new opening_text query, the clickthrough rate decreases to
> about 12%:
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Therefore, it seems that the new query has a nontrivial negative effect on
> CTR :(
> We'll plan on removing this test in the next release of the app, but we'll
> be happy to plug in a different or updated query, if it will be of further
> use to Discovery.
>
>
> [0]
> https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1BFsrAcPgexQyNVemmJ3k3IX5rtPvJ_5vdYOyGgS5R6Y/edit?usp=sharing
> (queries embedded as comments in the headers)
>
> --
> Dmitry Brant
> Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android)
> Wikimedia Foundation
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
>
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