Very cool results. Seems like showing the same question to a bunch of users and grabbing the most popular answer as the correct one will work on most of the cases. On Jan 5, 2015 8:08 PM, "Florian Schmidt" < [email protected]> wrote:
> Awesome! Can’t wait for it to be „always-on“ :) > > *Von:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>]* Im Auftrag von* Maryana Pinchuk > *Gesendet:* Montag, 5. Januar 2015 19:48 > *An:* Leila Zia; Dario Taraborelli; mobile-l > *Betreff:* [WikimediaMobile] Preliminary WikiGrok response quality in > stable > > If you're like me, you've probably been breathlessly awaiting the results > of the first WikiGrok stable A/B test to see if the responses we're getting > are good, bad, or ugly :) Well, good news! I did some hand-coding of the > results (a sample of about 300 responses from the ~1,200 we got during the > test) and have some interesting preliminary findings to share. Caveat: this > is not science, just a quick check of WikiGrok's pulse. Leila from > Analytics is helping us analyze this and other WikiGrok test data and will > have a more thorough write-up of the results soon :) > > As a reminder, this test ran for a week in December in stable for logged > in users only on English Wikipedia. We tested two versions of the UX (a > simple "yes/no/maybe" interface and a slightly more complex tagging one), > and we asked questions about biographies (actors and writers) and music > albums (live or studio albums). The responses were not yet sent to > Wikidata; the infrastructure to do that is currently in development. > > * The tl;dr is that the quality of the responses is pretty high!* The > overall rate of correct responses for the sample I looked at was** 80%*. > > * Also, *users with no edits and users with 1 or more edits had similar > quality responses* (in fact, the 0 edit count users gave slightly higher > quality responses). So even total newbs are capable of grokking :) > > * Lastly, while we didn't see any differences in engagement or conversion > (the rate at which users started and finished the WikiGrok process) between > the two versions, there was a difference in quality –* Version B > (tagging) produced a noticeably higher quality response rate (95%)*. > > More detailed breakdown of quality below, including by individual answer > (fun fact that is sure to make Sam Smith sad: nobody seems to have any clue > what a live album is!). Now let's see if these trends hold for logged out > users, too :) Our first test for all users (logged in and logged out) is > slated for later this month. > > ** * * * > > *User classes* > > Users with 0 edits – 85% > > Users with 1 or more edits – 80% > > *Versions* > > Version A – 68% > > Version B – 95% > > *Question types* > > "Is this person an author?" – 72% > > "Is this a film actor?" – 90% > > "Is this a television actor?" – 85% > > "Is this a live album?" – 50% :( > > "Is this a studio album?" – 64% > > -- > > Maryana Pinchuk > Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation > *wikimediafoundation.org* <http://wikimediafoundation.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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