On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the contribution side, the switchover also had a positive impact on new > user activation [1]. > > iPad users who were previously signing up on the desktop site saw a > significantly (and substantially) higher activation rate [2] as a result of > the redirection, for most days we sampled after the switchover. > > It’s too early to tell if this change in new user engagement will persist (we > probably had a large number of testers among the first signups) and we know > that by design (anonymous edit restrictions, prominent CTAs) we should expect > to see a higher conversion for editors on the mobile site, but these results > are very encouraging: we’re seeing a much higher rate of new users to > contribute to start editing Wikipedia in an environment that is more > appropriate for tablet devices.
Very cool data, thanks Dario! Is it possible to quantify before/after total edit volume to account for the impact of the anonymous edit restriction? Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
