On 02/14/2013 06:16 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
- We also fixed the way we bucketed users in the A/B test of the "getting started" guided tour on English Wikipedia: previously those who manually went back to Special:GettingStarted had a chance to view the tour again if they picked another article. Now, people in the control group will never see the tour, and those who complete the tour or end it won't see it ever again.
More broadly, if you visit Special:GettingStarted deliberately at any time (as opposed to being shown it automatically immediately after creation), you will not be sent on the tour.
This includes any user, established or new, who might choose to visit the page.
Matt Flaschen