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:GettingStar…
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_Wikipedi…is>.
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/