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(a)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
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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(a)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
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