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

[Steven Walling]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM, En Pine <deyntestiss at 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%A1rios/Testes
- 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