On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM, En Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:
MF-Warburg, at the risk of making myself sound unusually dense in front of everyone on foundation-l, I'm not yet an expert on cross-wiki Wikipedia research so I need some clarification. My understanding is that Incubator is only for entire new wikis and not experiments for current wikis, but I thought that the A/B testing is intended for implementation on the current English Wikipedia. Would I be correct in restating those sentences as "a hub for A/B testing experiments with Wikipedia templates on all wikis" and "a page for coordinating A/B testing of user talk templates ONLY here on the Incubator for new language Wikipedias"?
Thanks, Pine
MF-Warbug is correct. The Meta page has a list of all the tests and summarized results so far. The Incubator page is for tests on the Incubator. These specific local coordination pages are linked from Meta as well:
- English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_user_warnings/Testing - German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_Warnhinweise - Portuguese Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projetos/Avisos_aos_usu%C3%A1ri... - Commons (no tests started yet): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WikiProject_Templates/Testing
Sorry if this is confusing, but we tried to keep most of the relevant documentation to each project on that project.
To answer your other question about a place to go to propose ideas for editor retention... people should do what they are most comfortable with right now, and share the link(s) widely. Even a userspace essay or notes is alright. There are also many good ideas on strategy.wikimedia.org (though they are older), and in the fellowships proposals: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas.
Steven