Re: [discovery] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

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 _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery