FYI on the below, as well. Please contact Steven with any questions.
Greg ----- Forwarded message from Steven Walling <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:31:41 -0700 > From: Steven Walling <[email protected]> > To: WMF Editor Engagement Team <[email protected]> > Subject: [EE] Updates to account creation and login, guided tours, and > getting started > Reply-To: WMF Editor Engagement Team <[email protected]> > > Hey all, > > It's been a week or two since I gave an update here on what the Editor > Engagement Experiments (E3) team has deployed, so I wanted to share some > notes about what we've rolled out... > > First up: the new *account creation and login* designs are being enabled as > the new default everywhere.[1] It's on about 30 projects so far, and will > be enabled for all others next week. We also made some bug fixes associated > with this, but it's slowly but surely wrapping up as a project for E3. > > For *guided tours*, we've updated the feature so that if the tooltip is not > in your view, it has an animated scrolling action that takes you to it. For > example: for the majority of editors, they couldn't see the tooltips > pointing to preview and save on the edit form, because it was out of view > at the bottom in most browser sizes. > > This is being used now as part of the getting started tour, but is > available to use for all tours, and we're debating whether to turn it on by > default. Any input from folks creating other tours would be welcome. > > For *getting started*, we've just wrapped up A/B testing a new landing page > and a navigation bar on articles. It looks like it managed to double the > number of users accepting one of three getting started tasks, and we saw > our biggest increase in editors making their first edit so far, compared > the control that got no Getting Started page. > > More at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:OB5, and the interface is > now live for all English Wikipedians, if you want to visit > Special:GettingStarted and give it a spin. > > -- > Steven Walling > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-May/126214.html > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
