Hello,
The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and are of interest to users.
We've written up the details https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [1], came up with a multitude of designs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [3] that we'd like to run.
These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption of the test group.
We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would want to help us test these new search results across projects in their language. Interested community members might want to post something to their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest.
Please post on our testing talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers!
Thanks!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Te...
-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Deb,
A quick suggestion. I have a feeling that the number of community members on the Discovery email list who could take your request to their home wikis is fairly small. It might make sense to have Discovery's Community Liaison (do you have one at the moment?) do outreach on village pumps.
Regards,
Pine
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and are of interest to users.
We've written up the details https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [1], came up with a multitude of designs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [3] that we'd like to run.
These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption of the test group.
We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would want to help us test these new search results across projects in their language. Interested community members might want to post something to their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest.
Please post on our testing talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers!
Thanks!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ Improvements/Design [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ Improvements/Testing [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_ Result_Improvements/Testing
-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Pine,
Thanks for the suggestion - I've already consulted with our Community Liaisons and they suggested to reach out to the Discovery and Wikitech-Ambassadors (part of my original email) lists to start. If we don't get a few volunteers this way, we'll go directly to the Village Pumps of several wikis and ask that way. :)
Cheers,
Deb
-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Deb,
A quick suggestion. I have a feeling that the number of community members on the Discovery email list who could take your request to their home wikis is fairly small. It might make sense to have Discovery's Community Liaison (do you have one at the moment?) do outreach on village pumps.
Regards,
Pine
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and are of interest to users.
We've written up the details https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [1], came up with a multitude of designs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [3] that we'd like to run.
These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption of the test group.
We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would want to help us test these new search results across projects in their language. Interested community members might want to post something to their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest.
Please post on our testing talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers!
Thanks!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ Improvements/Design [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ Improvements/Testing [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Re sult_Improvements/Testing
-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation
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Whoops, I missed that cc to the Ambassadors list. I hope that works out; it's probably less labor intensive than going to village pumps, especially if you do the work to translate messages for various language VPs.
Pine
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Pine,
Thanks for the suggestion - I've already consulted with our Community Liaisons and they suggested to reach out to the Discovery and Wikitech-Ambassadors (part of my original email) lists to start. If we don't get a few volunteers this way, we'll go directly to the Village Pumps of several wikis and ask that way. :)
Cheers,
Deb
-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Deb,
A quick suggestion. I have a feeling that the number of community members on the Discovery email list who could take your request to their home wikis is fairly small. It might make sense to have Discovery's Community Liaison (do you have one at the moment?) do outreach on village pumps.
Regards,
Pine
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and are of interest to users.
We've written up the details https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [1], came up with a multitude of designs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [3] that we'd like to run.
These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption of the test group.
We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would want to help us test these new search results across projects in their language. Interested community members might want to post something to their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest.
Please post on our testing talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers!
Thanks!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ Improvements/Design [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ Improvements/Testing [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Re sult_Improvements/Testing
-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation
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