After some feedback from the blog folks I have an updated draft to share. Please take a look and provide any corrections. I think it tells the bigger story of changes coming to production, and explains our research quite well (not the other way around!).
I simplified the language, made it about 100 words shorter, put the big news at the top, and removed passive voice and adverbs.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/A-B_Test_Results_1
Here's a diff https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ACKoerner_%28WMF%29%2FWork%2FA-B_Test_Results_1&type=revision&diff=15333867&oldid=15327844 of my slew of changes.
Thanks Chris!
I added some info back in - I thought telling a story about why we did the testing and what we'll be going forward with was important. I know with these additions, I made it a little word-ier, but hopefully the blog and community folks will like it too. :)
Here's my edits https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/A-B_Test_Results_1&diff=15334156&oldid=15334048 .
Cheers,
Deb
-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org wrote:
After some feedback from the blog folks I have an updated draft to share. Please take a look and provide any corrections. I think it tells the bigger story of changes coming to production, and explains our research quite well (not the other way around!).
I simplified the language, made it about 100 words shorter, put the big news at the top, and removed passive voice and adverbs.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/A-B_Test_Results_1
Here's a diff https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ACKoerner_%28WMF%29%2FWork%2FA-B_Test_Results_1&type=revision&diff=15333867&oldid=15327844 of my slew of changes.
-- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
Looks good! I did one byte's worth of copyediting—but forgot to log in so you'll never prove it was me!
One question about this claim:
That's roughly an increase of 300,000 to 1.3 million additional page views a day into our projects!
I read that to claim that people using the portal would not view those pages anyway. Would it be more accurate to say something like, "...additional page views a day from the portal into our projects!" or some such?
It's always cool to reflect on how a few percentage points increase in performance can affect hundreds of thousands or even millions of people!
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks Chris!
I added some info back in - I thought telling a story about why we did the testing and what we'll be going forward with was important. I know with these additions, I made it a little word-ier, but hopefully the blog and community folks will like it too. :)
Here's my edits https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/A-B_Test_Results_1&diff=15334156&oldid=15334048 .
Cheers,
Deb
-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org wrote:
After some feedback from the blog folks I have an updated draft to share. Please take a look and provide any corrections. I think it tells the bigger story of changes coming to production, and explains our research quite well (not the other way around!).
I simplified the language, made it about 100 words shorter, put the big news at the top, and removed passive voice and adverbs.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/A-B_Test_Results_1
Here's a diff https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ACKoerner_%28WMF%29%2FWork%2FA-B_Test_Results_1&type=revision&diff=15333867&oldid=15327844 of my slew of changes.
-- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery