Hi
I wanted to provide a follow back on the banner issue.
Joseph Seddon has been _incredibly helpful_ on this. Whilst he confirmed
he indeed drop the banner visibility to its minimum on purpose (sigh),
he took time to propose and implement a new banner proposition and a AB
testing system to test banner efficiency.
Lot's of appreciation for his help on this. I apologized to him for what
was over-reacting. It was the disappointment from discovering what was
wrong after several days wondering.
Florence
For those with loads of curiousity
Results for the AB testing may be seen here :
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org&plat…
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org&platform=desktop&agent=user&start=2016-12-21&end=2016-12-21&pages=Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-c/en%7CCommons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-d/en%7CCommons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-c/fr%7CCommons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participate-d/fr>
With the new banner, Desktop see's a 100-150% improvement in traffic.
Mobile is a mixed result. With an slight 5% improvement in English but a
2-5% decline in french.
The new banner :
EN :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:What_links_here/mr&ba…
FR :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:What_links_here/mr&ba…
The meta page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&suba…
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