Experimentation Announcement: Welcome messages
Hey everybody!
We are running a new experiment on the platform:
Experiment name: Welcome messages for first-time editors
Test Launch: upcoming days
Test Clases: 3 weeks
Well Be Tested On: 100% of the editors after their first edit on a wiki with Message Wall
Hypothesis: We believe that welcoming editors after their first edit on a new wiki in a way that feels personal and relevant to the situation will make them feel welcome in this community, less clueless as to what to do next, and so motivate them to edit more.
Other Notes: After their very first edit on a wiki they have not edited before (regardless of whether they’ve edited other wikis on Fandom!), users will receive a message to their wall, authored by a Community staff member, thanking them for…
Tweak announcement: VisualEditor performance improvements
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New update about an upcoming feature that you will see next Wednesday in our wikis:
Tweak: VisualEditor performance improvements
Launching: March 6, 2024
Premise: We believe that a faster-loading editor will make editing more appealing to new and experienced editors, leading to an increased success rate in the editor, and a higher number of editors overall.
Data: The User Generated Content team experimented with loading the VisualEditor before accessing it. During the experiment, the VisualEditor was preloading when users were hovering the top right edit button and other edit entries. It was limited to the users using the VE as predefined editor.
In this experiment, we saw around 4% increase in the number of editors completing an edit…
Experimentation Announcement: Simplified editor for first-time editors
Hey everybody!
We are going to run a new experiment on the platform:
Experiment Name: Simplified editor for first-time editors
Test Launch: Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023
Test Closes: One Week
Will Be Tested On: 50% of the editors opening the Visual Editor
Hypothesis: We believe that providing first-time editors with a far simpler, more familiar editor interface will enable more of them to successfully publish their first edit, increasing the number of new editors per month.
Other Notes: We are moving/hiding any non-essential elements of the 2017 Visual Editor (the default editor for newly registered users), and increasing the editor’s similarity to other text editors users are familiar with (like Microsoft Word or Google Docs). To do this, we have analyzed …
Tweak announcement: Redesign of the highlight menu for logged-in users
Hey everybody!
New update about an upcoming feature that you will see tomorrow in our wikis:
Tweak: Redesign of the highlight menu for logged-in users
Launching: [Updated] Nov 29, 2023
Premise: We will redesign the highlight menu based on the results of the last experiment. This will help to see more searches from our users, facilitating the discoverability of our content, and also will add a new edit entry point from this menu.
Data: We added a highlight menu in the content area with options to search for specific pieces of content some months ago. This resulted in an increase in the number of searches, and proved to be an excellent way to address our readers to key tools as the editor.
In a previous experiment, we saw an increase in search activity…