Hey all,
It's been a week or two since I gave an update here on what the Editor
Engagement Experiments (E3) team has deployed, so I wanted to share some
notes about what we've rolled out...
First up: the new *account creation and login* designs are being enabled as
the new default everywhere.[1] It's on about 30 projects so far, and will
be enabled for all others next week. We also made some bug fixes associated
with this, but it's slowly but surely wrapping up as a project for E3.
For *guided tours*, we've updated the feature so that if the tooltip is not
in your view, it has an animated scrolling action that takes you to it. For
example: for the majority of editors, they couldn't see the tooltips
pointing to preview and save on the edit form, because it was out of view
at the bottom in most browser sizes.
This is being used now as part of the getting started tour, but is
available to use for all tours, and we're debating whether to turn it on by
default. Any input from folks creating other tours would be welcome.
For *getting started*, we've just wrapped up A/B testing a new landing page
and a navigation bar on articles. It looks like it managed to double the
number of users accepting one of three getting started tasks, and we saw
our biggest increase in editors making their first edit so far, compared
the control that got no Getting Started page.
More at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:OB5, and the interface is
now live for all English Wikipedians, if you want to visit
Special:GettingStarted and give it a spin.
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
1.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-May/126214.html