On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know what kind of experiments we're talking about?
I can partially clarify here... - These will not be "pilot projects" resembling the Global Education Program in any particular country. (Which is why it's very strange to be using it as an example in the context of this announcement and the ensuing discussion.) We won't be doing offline outreach to thousands of students or any other particular group. - These will not be large-scale new features that move quickly to permanent deployment, such as the Article Feedback Tool or PendingChanges. The best example I can give now is the A/B testing of user talk templates that Maryana and I have done. Since we'll have design and developer resources for these new experiments however, they will be different in regards to how quickly the tests happen and how tech-heavy they are. Another decent example was the Account Creation Improvement Project which happened last year, though that was another example which took longer than the timeframe we want to work on. We're still in the beginning of working on our list of experiments (we don't actually officially start until April ~16th), but by then we'll have a list of possibilities to share. Since these won't be English Wikipedia only, the documentation will be on a wiki like MediaWiki.org and Meta. If you have any strong feelings about how you'd like updates to happen or have experiment ideas, we'd be happy to hear them. Steven _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
