Hi Pine, Thanks for the suggestion - I've already consulted with our Community Liaisons and they suggested to reach out to the Discovery and Wikitech-Ambassadors (part of my original email) lists to start. If we don't get a few volunteers this way, we'll go directly to the Village Pumps of several wikis and ask that way. :)
Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Deb, > > A quick suggestion. I have a feeling that the number of community members > on the Discovery email list who could take your request to their home wikis > is fairly small. It might make sense to have Discovery's Community Liaison > (do you have one at the moment?) do outreach on village pumps. > > Regards, > > Pine > > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific >> Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for >> cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search >> results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, >> relevant, and are of interest to users. >> >> We've written up the details >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements> [1], >> came up with a multitude of designs >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design> >> [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own >> internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> >> [3] >> that we'd like to run. >> >> These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be >> shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the >> tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on >> wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption >> of the test group. >> >> We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would >> want to help us test these new search results across projects in their >> language. Interested community members might want to post something to >> their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are >> related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest. >> >> Please post on our testing talk page >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> >> [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers! >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ >> Improvements/Design >> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ >> Improvements/Testing >> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Re >> sult_Improvements/Testing >> >> -- >> deb tankersley >> Product Manager, Discovery >> irc: debt >> 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 > >
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