On Jun 27, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

I am looking into overall edit volume as well. We should keep in mind that this 
will be a noisy measure (much less controlled than new user activation rates).

Other hypotheses we’re formulating on the expected impact of the tablet 
switchover are listed here [1], feel free to add more.

Dario

[1] http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/TabletSwitchover-UserAcquisition
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