Hey folks,
We just released a new version of Echo on MediaWiki.org, for your interactive pleasure.
Can you help us take it for a spin?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Notifications
For tips on how to test Echo on MediaWiki.org, visit this testing page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing
The main new feature is the long-awaited 'User mention notification', which you can read up about here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#User_Mention
Note that we limited the scope of this feature initially, to make sure that folks don't get too many notifications in our first release.
Here are the current constraints:
• this feature only works if the mention of your name is linked to your user page (with double bracket links ([[ ]]), not single brackets)
• this feature only works for posts inside a section of a talk page other than yours (doesn't work on articles or 'Wikipedia:' pages)
• this feature only works if the post is signed -- by adding four tildes (Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 00:53, 8 March 2013 (UTC)) when the edit is posted, which are then converted into a signature
We would appreciate your thoughts about possibly expanding the scope of this feature to cover more use cases, such as:
• support links with single brackets
• support user links on 'Wikipedia:' pages
• support user links on article pages
• support user links without requiring a signature
What do you think? Should we expand this feature for those use cases? any other use cases we might have missed?
Also, be sure to check the fancy new 'Dismiss feature', which lets you turn off notification types you don't want from inside the notification flyout. This has the same effect as turning them off in preferences, but is more accessible.
Speaking of preferences, you can now turn off notification types you don't want for either web or email notifications, using a shiny new HTML table, which you can check out here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo
We're still planning to tweak the copy on this preferences page, but the functionality is here -- and it took Kaldari some time to get this HTML table function through core, so we hope you can use it for other features as well. In the future, this table can be expanded to control notifications you get on your mobile phone and other channels.
We've also done a lot of work on bundling, job queue, metrics and code refactoring, but these are hard for you to test -- or have not yet been deployed.
Our next deployment on MediaWiki.org is now scheduled for March 18th, when we expect to launch a number of new notifications and features:
• Thank you notification
• User rights change
• job queue
• metrics
• HTML email
• Metrics
Enjoy!
Fabrice and the E2 team
Hey all,
I just wanted to let those interested know that I've published two user
tests I ran last week of the "getting started" guided tour. You can watch
the videos and read my preliminary notes at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours/User_testing
Keep in mind that some of the confusion here was due to the fact that,
because we were running a randomized A/B test of the time, we had to send
users directly to a test article. This means they lacked some of the
context and definitely some of motivation that a user who normally decided
to click a task on Special:GettingStarted would have. (I edited the test
script for the second user to try and alleviate some of this.)
In any case, we still derived quite a bit of valuable feedback about ways
to improve this tour and guided tours in general. I'll be running more
tests of both the tour and the new Special:GettingStarted landing page
soon.
Have a good weekend,
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hi all,
This is just a quick update to let you know about two pieces of good news
from Editor Engagement Experiments.
First, we launched a new version of the
Special:GettingStarted<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GettingStarted>landing
page on English Wikipedia. As you can see, it's got two additional
task types. We're hoping this helps bump up the number of users who find
these task lists helpful. We've got some enhancements to this new page on
the way, such as fixing up the way the tooltips work and adding a backend
that doesn't rely on SuggestBot.
Second, we ended and got a preliminary analysis of the effect of guided
tours. By running the "getting started" tour associated with the previous
landing page as an A/B test, we saw some promising
results<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/OB3#Coh…>.
Namely, that the cohort which got the tour clicked Edit 13% more, and saved
an article edit 4% more. (Both are statistically significant results.) This
means that we'll continue to explore ways to use guided tours in support of
onboarding, and potentially consider a test of a tour for all new
registered users.
Questions? Comments?
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hey E2:
I haven't had a chance to configure Echo on my development instance yet, so I've not been able to confidently +2 changes related to EventLogging. I'm happy to read things over and dish out +1/-1s, but if there's behavior that you'd like me to verify thoroughly, let me know and I'll configure Echo -- which I intend to do soon anyhow!
Also, we should declare a moratorium on project names starting with the letter 'E' -- this is getting out of hand! :P
--
Ori Livneh
Hi Matthias,
Here are more details about today's 10am PT deployment of AFT on English Wikipedia (see also Bug 45538).
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45538
We propose to make these revisions today:
* remove AFT4 feedback form on the English Wikipedia
* remove feedback form from AFT5 lottery articles
* switch AFT5 to 'opt-in'mode
This will remove AFT feedback forms from over 99% of the articles on the English Wikipedia, as requested in the RfC closure statement.
As a result, we would only show feedback forms for articles in the 'Article Feedback 5' and 'Additional Articles' categories. The rationale for keeping AFT5 on the 783 articles with these categories is that many community members added that category themselves and the Foundation wishes to monitor feedback on that small sample, within the scope of the RfC-approved 'continued experimentation' for this tool. At a later date, we may also want to merge these two categories together, so we only have one main 'Article Feedback 5' category, which is easier to remember.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5
Editors who want to enable AFT5 on articles they watch can simply add [[Category:Article_Feedback_5]] to their pages and the feedback form will
automatically appear on these pages, as described here. Anyone is welcome to manually add articles to this category, as long as they are prepared to moderate feedback periodically for those articles (using the reader feedback link at the top of their article talk pages).
Articles from the lottery (or articles whose category is removed) would no longer have a reader feedback link at the top of their article talk pages (or in the 'Toolbox' left sidebar on article pages), and their feedback pages would no longer be accessible by the public (unless the Article_Feedback_5 category is added to these articles).
Regarding what to do with the data, Dario has recommended that we keep the data tables for AFT4 and for the old version of AFT5, so that all his dashboards and metrics can continue to point to that data. Would that be an issue, from a technical standpoint?
Next week's deployment will include these new tasks on the English and German Wikipedias:
* remove AFT5 DB + archive
* upload AFT5 DB with new schema
* deploy new features
* test and fix bugs
These are the new features which we have been testing on prototype, as described here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Testing
Next steps are outlined in this updated 2013 release plan for Article Feedback:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Release_Plan_2013
Please let us know if you have any comments or questions.
Let's plan to track the deployment on IRC chat #wikimedia-dev, starting at 10am PT.
Thanks!
Fabrice
Hi all,
Just a quick note to let you know that we made these revisions today on the English Wikipedia, at the community's request:
• switched AFT5 to 'opt-in' mode
• disabled feedback tool on AFT5 'lottery' articles
• disabled AFT4 feedback tool
This removed Article feedback tools from most of the articles on the English Wikipedia, as requested by the community in this RfC closure statement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Article_feedback
Going forward, editors who wish to enable AFT5 on articles they watch can simply add 'Category:Article_Feedback_5' to these articles -- and the feedback form will automatically appear at the bottom of these pages. Editors who add AFT5 using this 'opt-in' method are encouraged to moderate feedback periodically for those articles (using the reader feedback link at the top of their article talk pages).
To learn more about our next steps for Article Feedback, check out this 2013 release plan for Article Feedback:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Release_Plan_2013
Here are the key milestones we are now aiming for:
Week of March 11:
• deploy an updated version of the tool on a new database cluster for both English and German Wikipedias
• discuss decisions about Article feedback settings (e.g.: inappropriate posts, feedback link, abuse filter)
Week of March 18:
• deploy Article Feedback on a few articles on the French Wikipedia (for a technical test for the first two weeks).
• test the new version with a small group of volunteers on English, French and German Wikipedias + fix bugs
Week of March 25:
• deploy and test bug fixes with a larger group of volunteers
• finalize decisions about Article feedback settings for each wiki.
Week of April 1:
• deploy a final release version on English, French and German Wikipedias
• increase the pilot footprint on the French Wikipedia to 42,000 articles
• socialize all 3 releases with a broader community
• publish a blog post about these new releases
• track and study feedback metrics
Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this plan, which we will keep updating regularly.
All the best,
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 19:41:20 +0100
> From: Benoît Evellin <benoit.evellin(a)wikimedia.fr>
> To: WMF Editor Engagement Team <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [EE] Marie sent me this
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> 2013/3/1 Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
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> > On Mar 1, 2013 10:26 AM, "Terry Chay" <tchay(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> > > http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life
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> > I think Terry forgot this isn't a team list anymore. ;)
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> I don't think it is a problem : on this list I'm a volunteer, but this link
> perfectly illustrate my (real) job ! ;-)
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> Benoît
I thought that was hilarious and I forwarded the link to wikitech-l. However, it seems that they have no sense of fun; someone over there said that wikitech-l is "not a place to hangout with your friends and share dumb stuff." Talk about of being hostile to volunteers and people who are trying to foster a positive atmosphere. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be posting there anymore.
Pine