Steven Walling wrote: > Prioritizing recommendations for registered users makes sense not > just because it's technologically easier, but because we know registered > editors make the bulk of contributions to Wikipedia.
From my impression regarding main namespace, 80% of edits by number are made by unregistered contributors, of which 80% are vandalism. The latter doesn't justify ignoring the former, perhaps, though - I'd be very interested in making more features available to unregistered contributors where doing so is not too much effort. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Musings_about_unregistered_contributors contains detail on this matter (which, from what I could see, are best addressed by the Growth team). Steven Walling wrote: > We generally don't ask permission to enable extensions. Thats a technical > decision that gets made as part of the deployment cycle. Nobody prevents you from asking, though, if you like. The Multimedia Team tries to start doing so. :-) However, could you please write up a note, once a week perhaps, which I could distribute to affected Wikimedia projects - with notes on planned releases, new feature additions, and how to test them? I'd like to talk to the people myself, perhaps, if you wouldn't like to waste your time: following the release plans is not very easy right now, as you're sending them out to mailing lists and there's no centralised releases and big changes calendar thing for Wikimedia Engineering Teams. Steven Walling wrote: > Plus, > recommendations is not a new extension, but is an optional feature of an > extension that has been deployed to many Wikipedias for a long time > (GettingStarted). We'll simply turn it on for a short time as part of a > test, then turn it off while we analyze the results. Ah. It'd be nice to have people know about the wonderful work you're doing; more on this in the above paragraph. Steven Walling wrote: > The primary purpose of the new functionality is to aid new editors, and it > won't be presented to any existing registered users (not even on an opt-in > basis). There's no point in polling existing community members about > functionality they will not see. Running a short A/B test, in concert with > usability testing, will provide us with an objective look at whether a > particular feature helps new people contribute to the encyclopedia more or > less. I imagine some people clearly remember how they got started and what helped and what didn't. Would be interested to collect thoughts on that and show them this ongoing work. Steven Walling wrote: > As for enabling recommendations on other Wikimedia projects... we have no > idea whether the recommendations will work for *any* project. Testing on > Wikipedia is our first focus. From a practical standpoint, the size of > large Wikipedias let's us run a comparatively short test to tell us > statistically significant results. If it ends up being a success, then we > should talk about whether the recommendations will work for > non-encyclopedic projects as well. It would definitely be cool to have > recommendations for editor communities like Wikidata, Wikivoyage, and > Wiktionary too. Good! :-) By the way, is it possible to limit the suggestions to a certain category (or exclude a category)? Some projects appear to archive their articles and suggesting to edit them would make no sense, even if the topic is very similar. svetlana _______________________________________________ EE mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee
