Hey all,
Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working on for some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode right now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of new signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.
To see what this looks like, just add ?gettingStartedReturn=true to any link on enwiki, like...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lubarsch?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on an editable page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?gettingStartedReturn=true for what it looks like on a page new users can't.
As our specification describes,[1] this test version with calls to action will be delivered automatically to new users when they are redirected back to where they were prior to signup. The control in our A/B test will be sending all new users through Special:GettingStarted. You can find out more about our hypotheses regarding this test on Meta.[2]
I'd appreciate any feedback people might have. A list of the current things I want to see updated before Monday are on our publicly-viewable project management tool, Trello.[3]
Many thanks!
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:OB6 3. https://trello.com/c/k4GksP18
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:24:00PM -0700, Steven Walling wrote:
Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working on for some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode right now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of new signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.
Cool, I hadn't seen this before, and I really like it! It looks like a great way of drawing many more people in to realising they can contribute to Wikipedia.
Great job all involved.
Text refers to "edit source" links, but if VE is not enabled on your account or you're not logged in the tabs & links say just "edit".
-- brion On Oct 3, 2013 7:24 PM, "Steven Walling" swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working on for some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode right now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of new signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.
To see what this looks like, just add ?gettingStartedReturn=true to any link on enwiki, like...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lubarsch?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on an editable page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on a page new users can't.
As our specification describes,[1] this test version with calls to action will be delivered automatically to new users when they are redirected back to where they were prior to signup. The control in our A/B test will be sending all new users through Special:GettingStarted. You can find out more about our hypotheses regarding this test on Meta.[2]
I'd appreciate any feedback people might have. A list of the current things I want to see updated before Monday are on our publicly-viewable project management tool, Trello.[3]
Many thanks!
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:OB6
- https://trello.com/c/k4GksP18
-- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Text refers to "edit source" links, but if VE is not enabled on your account or you're not logged in the tabs & links say just "edit".
-- brion
Thanks for the catch Brion. Strangely the button was referring to {{int:vector-view-edit}} which should have updated automatically to whatever was on enwiki? Anyway, I fixed this locally in the on-wiki MediaWiki message, for now.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Nick White nick.white@durham.ac.uk wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:24:00PM -0700, Steven Walling wrote:
Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working
on for
some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode
right
now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of
new
signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.
Cool, I hadn't seen this before, and I really like it! It looks like a great way of drawing many more people in to realising they can contribute to Wikipedia.
Great job all involved.
Thanks Nick! Your kind words are very much appreciated.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hey all,
Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working on for some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode right now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of new signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.
To see what this looks like, just add ?gettingStartedReturn=true to any link on enwiki, like...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lubarsch?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on an editable page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on a page new users can't.
As our specification describes,[1] this test version with calls to action will be delivered automatically to new users when they are redirected back to where they were prior to signup. The control in our A/B test will be sending all new users through Special:GettingStarted. You can find out more about our hypotheses regarding this test on Meta.[2]
I'd appreciate any feedback people might have. A list of the current things I want to see updated before Monday are on our publicly-viewable project management tool, Trello.[3]
Many thanks!
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:OB6
- https://trello.com/c/k4GksP18
-- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
For the curious, I have also run five remote usability tests of this system. Our notes about things to improve and some video clips are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/user_testing#Testi...
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hey all,
Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working on for some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode right now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of new signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.
To see what this looks like, just add ?gettingStartedReturn=true to any link on enwiki, like...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lubarsch?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on an editable page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?gettingStartedReturn=truefor what it looks like on a page new users can't.
As our specification describes,[1] this test version with calls to action will be delivered automatically to new users when they are redirected back to where they were prior to signup. The control in our A/B test will be sending all new users through Special:GettingStarted. You can find out more about our hypotheses regarding this test on Meta.[2]
I'd appreciate any feedback people might have. A list of the current things I want to see updated before Monday are on our publicly-viewable project management tool, Trello.[3]
Many thanks!
Quick update: we've ended our A/B test of this new version just now. You can still try the URLs I linked to in my original announcement though. Now that the test is over, we'll be running the analysis described at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/OB6