[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

[En Pine]

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:05:18 +0200
From: MF-Warburg <mfwarburg at googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd:
	Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!
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2012/3/25 En Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com>
 
> Also, Steven, could you send the link to the place where we can look at
> your ?not-so-secret effort to make the current user talk template system
> more human?? I?m not clear on which page is the main one,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing or
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Template_testing. Is
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Template_testing the main
> page and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing the list of
> past tests? There?s also
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Engagement which looks like
> it?s a coordinating page for multiple projects but some of the information
> is a bit outdated. I think it would be helpful for all three of these pages
> to articulate their relationships with each other more clearly and be
> updated to reflect current information, including clearly stating which
> staff members are the appropriate contacts for each page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
 
 
I can answer this question easily: The first sentences of the pages in
question say it: The meta page is "a interwiki hub for previous and
on-going A/B testing experiments with Wikipedia templates", and the page on
Incubator "is a page for coordinating A/B testing of user talk templates
here on the Incubator. This project is also going on at several others
wikis, and for a full list and summarized results, see Meta."
 
Regards,
MF-Warburg

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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