Huji, thanks for the reminder about RTL wikis, which is always welcome. To expand on Deb's answer, searchers are randomly chosen to see new results in our A/B tests, so you can't volunteer yourself as a user. Unlike a beta feature, where motivated and knowledgeable users opt in, the random tests give us a better idea of how average users will react to the proposed changes.
Deb (& Jan), have we looked at how the current design will work on RTL wikis? (With Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew being the three biggest by volume, according to a glance at the dashboards.) Some designs, like the result list on the side, may need extra design work to be made RTL-friendly. —Trey Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Deborah Tankersley < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Huji, to answer your question - this will be a short series of > tests on Wikipedia that will display additional relevant search results > across wikis in the same language to a selected number of users that fall > into our bucketing schema. Not everyone will see the new results every time > if they land on a search results listing page. > > Cheers, > > Deb > > > -- > deb tankersley > Product Manager, Discovery > irc: debt > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think it would be best if we test it in at least one RTL wiki. I will >> mention this in the VP of Persian Wikipedia (FA WP). >> >> If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for >> others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester. >> >> Huji >> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific >>> Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for >>> cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search >>> results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, >>> relevant, and are of interest to users. >>> >>> We've written up the details >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements> [1], >>> came up with a multitude of designs >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design> >>> [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own >>> internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> >>> [3] >>> that we'd like to run. >>> >>> These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be >>> shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the >>> tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on >>> wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption >>> of the test group. >>> >>> We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would >>> want to help us test these new search results across projects in their >>> language. Interested community members might want to post something to >>> their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are >>> related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest. >>> >>> Please post on our testing talk page >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> >>> [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers! >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements >>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ >>> Improvements/Design >>> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ >>> Improvements/Testing >>> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Re >>> sult_Improvements/Testing >>> >>> -- >>> deb tankersley >>> Product Manager, Discovery >>> irc: debt >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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