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> 1. Re: [discovery] Request for testing / early adoption of new
> cross-wiki search results (Trey Jones)
> 2. Tech News (2016, week 46) (Johan Jönsson)
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> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:03:07 -0500
> From: Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [discovery] Request for testing /
> early adoption of new cross-wiki search results
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> Huji, thanks for the reminder about RTL wikis, which is always welcome.
>
> To expand on Deb's answer, searchers are randomly chosen to see new results
> in our A/B tests, so you can't volunteer yourself as a user. Unlike a beta
> feature, where motivated and knowledgeable users opt in, the random tests
> give us a better idea of how average users will react to the proposed
> changes.
>
> Deb (& Jan), have we looked at how the current design will work on RTL
> wikis? (With Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew being the three biggest by volume,
> according to a glance at the dashboards.) Some designs, like the result
> list on the side, may need extra design work to be made RTL-friendly.
>
> —Trey
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Deborah Tankersley <
> dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Huji, to answer your question - this will be a short series of
>> tests on Wikipedia that will display additional relevant search results
>> across wikis in the same language to a selected number of users that fall
>> into our bucketing schema. Not everyone will see the new results every time
>> if they land on a search results listing page.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Deb
>>
>>
>> --
>> deb tankersley
>> Product Manager, Discovery
>> irc: debt
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it would be best if we test it in at least one RTL wiki. I will
>>> mention this in the VP of Persian Wikipedia (FA WP).
>>>
>>> If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for
>>> others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester.
>>>
>>> Huji
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> deb tankersley
>>>> Product Manager, Discovery
>>>> irc: debt
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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