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_
Result_Improvements/Testing
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deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
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Wikimedia Foundation
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