<quote name="Moritz Muehlenhoff" date="2016-03-22" time="22:11:58 +0100">
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:04:21PM +0100, Guillaume Lederrey wrote:
> > Let me know if you have any question or if you know of another place
> > where I should publicize this deployment window.
>
> We have a page on wikitech which tracks all deployment/maintenance
> windows: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
Yes, please add your window there. As I see you want a 7 hour window,
overlapping with other windows shouldn't be a problem. But, if you ever
plan to do work that might impact more than just your own systems,
please do coordinate with me.
Thanks,
Greg
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Hi all,
While updating the Q4 goals [1] for the Wikipedia.org Portal Team today, I
wanted to see where we currently are with the bounce rate of visitors to
the portal and found some really good news on our dashboard [2].
Back in December 2015, we had approximately 60% of our visitors to
the portal page arrive and then leave without doing anything (bounce rate).
We also had about only 30% of the portal visitors doing a search on the
page and other actions were much lower.
Now, as of March 22, 2016, our bounce rate is down to 44% and the searches
are up to 42%. Which is a very nice improvement (due to many explainable
and unexplainable things) and it shows that our numbers are certainly
moving in the right direction. Woohoo!
Check out this image [3] for the pretty dashboard stats picture. :)
Happy Friday!
Deb
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Wikip…
[2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#action_breakdown (go to Smoothing
dropdown and select Monthly Median)
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bounce_Rate_for_Wikipedia_Portal_De…
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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
>Not directly related, but should we add the new #wikimedia-interactive
channel to the the list of IRC channels?
DONE! :)
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello team!
I'm trying to get some visibility on our hardware requests, so that I
can follow them properly and in turn give you visibility on what's
happening. First step is knowing what is requested.
Phabricator should help me there. A query for "tag contains Discovery
&& tag contains hardware request" [1] gives me 2 tasks (Maps backend
hardware, Refresh elastic10{01..16}.eqiad.wmnet servers). I know that
there are other tasks out there (Relevance forge hardware for
example).
If you know of any hardware request for the discovery team that is not
tagged "Discovery" && "Hardware-requests", can you send it my way? Or
suggest another query that could help me get them?
Thanks for your help!
MrG
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Fta7weLW2Pa5/
(no idea if that link is actually shareable...)
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Guillaume Lederrey
Operations Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello discovery mailing list members.
We'd like to ask for some feedback on how the Discovery team can best use
this list. We don't want to muddle the list with information that folks
outside the team don't care about, and we want to make sure that what we
post is of value.
What sort of information do you think we should share here?
It seems clear that items like these should go on this list:
- Some interesting findings - we ran a test and found x=y!
- Something new and we want to suss out interest - What if we moved the
search box to a different position on the page‽
- Upcoming projects, or other milestones related to discovery - X users
opted-in to the new autocompletion suggester.
- Discussions about quarterly goals and roadmaps
There are other items that we could share on this list, but would anyone
outside the team be interested? For example, process-related items like:
- Portal team decided to have 3x standups per week instead of 2.
- Team structure changes, or plans to change how we do retrospectives
- Notifications of meeting minutes being posted (e.g. Weekly team
meeting minutes, retrospective minutes, etc.)
For Discovery team members reading this: What criteria do you use (or wish
you could use) when thinking, "Should I post this to public list?"
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Coinciding with the launch of the completion suggester, we've seen a very
large decrease in the zero results rate for prefix search
<http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#failure_breakdown>! In fact, the
zero results rate for prefix search is now lower than that for full text
search. Similarly, we've seen a decrease in the overall zero results rate
KPI <http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#kpi_zero_results>. Yay!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all!
On 17 March 2016 the Portal team deployed a patch to Wikipedia Portal to
log all user preferred languages. From the analysis of this additional
data, we found that approximately 70% of Wikipedia Portal visitors only
have English as their preferred language, and approx. 18% set a language
other than English. Around 12% of our users are multilingual (according to
their browser preferences), but many of those included English.
Users whose primary language is English or who included English as a
preferred language clicked through and searched at a remarkably higher rate
on a daily basis than users whose primary language is another language (60%
vs 50% and 50% vs 30%), but the latter group used the language links at a
much higher rate than the former (10% vs 20%).
In fact, English-speaking visitors' overall clickthrough rate was
12.5%-14.4% higher than non-English-speaking visitors', and were 1.3 times
more likely to click through, indicating, perhaps, that increased
localization efforts could better engage our non-English-speaking visitors.
Based on the data and patterns observed, we strongly support and encourage
the language detection and localization efforts the Portal team has begun
pursuing.
These and other findings can be found in the report on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Analysis_of_Clickthrough_Rates_and_…>.
The graphs are especially cool and informative, even if I do say so myself.
Thanks,
Mikhail on behalf of Discovery Analytics
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Yes this is a little early for the SF folks. I messed up.
The correct time is 18:30 UTC
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello Discovery department,
To experiment with working with interested people outside of our team I'd
like host an IRC office hour next Wednesday, March 30th.* (That's 1:30 p.m.
San Francisco time).
The topic will be recent efforts the Discovery team has been working on. So
come to share with our communities what you've been up to.
To mix things up a bit, I've also scheduled a Bluejeans (video chat) for
those who wish to participate in that manner. I'll work as an intermediary
between the two mediums.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hourshttps://bluejeans.com/388063933/
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Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
*I didn't come up with this on my own. :) Tomasz and Kevin helped to
organize this endeavor.
