Re: [Analytics] Fwd: [E3-team] Account creation campaign support

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [E3-team] Account creation campaign support Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:03:53 -0700 From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: E3 team discussion list <e3-team(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: WMF Product Team <wmfproduct(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Internal E3 team discussion list <e3-team(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, This is just a heads up about an impending change and our future plans. *Background: *As most of you know, we are hard at working trying to implement our tests of a new account creation interface in core.[1] For the past several months during our tests, Extension:E3Experiments and the new signup interface on enwiki have supported tracking of signup campaigns via a URL parameter (ala &campaign=foo). Though we considered it a "nice to have" addition to the account creation A/B tests, this piece of functionality has been very useful for understanding the difference in editing activity and overall retention for users who sign up via various calls to action, such as Article Feedback Tool, or an outside party like the American Sociological Association. *What's changing: *starting potentially as soon as this Thursday, E3 infrastructure won't be supporting the current implementation of campaign tracking via URL parameters. This needs to come down as part of our removal of the old code for the test version of the new signup page, since we're in the process of committing the new UI modifications to core. For those interested, this will happen during the regularly scheduled E3 deployment window most likely, which happens every Thursday. As far as I am aware, there aren't any currently-running campaigns undergoing active analysis, but I wanted to send out an announcement in case anyone was planning on running any campaigns in the near future. *Future work on campaign support: *we are taking down the current campaign tracking for the foreseeable future, but implementing it properly and permanently is on our roadmap. Responding to the bugs and feedback we get on the key functionality of account creation and login is our first priority, but after that campaign support is something we want to support. Please let me know if you have any questions about what precisely we plan to support, and please forward this email on to anyone relevant. Steven 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics