Yeah, had a similar concern. I was wondering if a non-indexed subdir would do the trick. Naturally any code deployed for potentially so many users would need scrutiny for simple stuff like XSS, and I imagine analytics scripts would have to factor in the sub site.
On Monday, January 25, 2016, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Good Q. I guess my question would be about the practical costs in
setup, deployment and patch time for a prod service.
On 25 January 2016 at 11:24, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> ...that is, if it is prioritized for a link from the portal homepage,
> anyway.
>
>
> On Monday, January 25, 2016, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> For domain name and hosting: should it be a production domain name on a
>> production host?
>>
>> On Friday, January 22, 2016, Julien Girault <jgirault@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page.
>>>
>>> The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our portal
>>> page, things that are completely different than what the current portal page
>>> looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But without
>>> imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a link to
>>> this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users can have
>>> an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the experiments their
>>> default.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We would have two trains:
>>>
>>> - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on the
>>> official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn.
>>>
>>> - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also collect
>>> traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also
>>> implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype page
>>> that points to a Phab ticket where community can add comments/feedback).
>>>
>>> To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I uploaded
>>> some of my research time work:
>>> https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/
>>>
>>> Pay closer attention to:
>>> Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid)
>>> Trending Showing top 10 articles (full screen)
>>>
>>>
>>> This would allow us to think outside the box and test different
>>> layouts/features, with real users who chose to.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think
>>> about it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or beta
>>> portal, or something else.
>>>
>>> Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go
>>> towards making this happen and what we should name it.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Julien
>
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