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Experiment Analysis: Surfacing Structured Tasks experiment (WE1.2.6 / WE1.2.9)
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Description

User Story:

As a the Growth team, I want to interpret the WE1.2.9 experiment results, so that we can understand the impact on constructive activation on mobile.

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Task scope:

Analyze the collected data from the WE1.2.9 Experiment to assess its impact on constructive activation on mobile.
Present findings to the Growth team and document the results on the project’s MediaWiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Constructive_activation_experimentation#Measurement_and_Results


Background

Current full-page editing experiences require too much context, patience, and trial and error for many newcomers to contribute constructively. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller, structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g. Edit Check and Structured Tasks). The Growth team will primarily focus on Structured Tasks, while working closely with the Editing team to ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.

This project aims to address the following user problem: Getting started editing on Wikipedia is difficult and especially frustrating on mobile devices. I want the editing interface to provide the in-the-moment policy and technical guidance I need, so my initial efforts aren't reverted.

This project aims to achieve the following user outcome: As a new Wikipedia volunteer, I feel confident and enthusiastic about contributing to the Wikimedia movement by editing Wikipedia articles. The tools provided guide me step-by-step, limit distractions, and allow me to learn progressively so I can successfully contribute on my mobile device.

As part of the Growth team 2024/2025 Annual Plan, the Growth team will explore various ways to increase constructive activation on mobile. This is part of the Wikimedia Foundation 2024-2025 Annual Plan, specifically the Wiki Experiences 1.2 Key Result

Experiment Report

1.2.9 report

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Event Timeline

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Blocked on the Growth-Team board.
KStoller-WMF renamed this task from Experiment Analysis: Surfacing Structured Tasks experiment (WE1.2.6) to Experiment Analysis: Surfacing Structured Tasks experiment (WE1.2.6 / WE1.2.9).Jan 23 2025, 7:24 PM
KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

Moving this to doing since @Iflorez is looking at data to determine when we will have enough experiment participants to calculate Constructive Activation.

@Iflorez Feel free to update or add a comment if that's not accurate.

Moving this to doing since @Iflorez is looking at data to determine when we will have enough experiment participants to calculate Constructive Activation.

@Iflorez Feel free to update or add a comment if that's not accurate.

My apologies, on a delayed response.
On May 1st we discussed that I was going to pull data for the user canonical dataset on May 10th & edit data on the 16th:
a) as one step in the larger direction of publishing the 1.2.9 report,
b) to [double] confirm that we had enough data given the unexpected smaller group of pilot wikis
c) to plan for deployment of 1.2.17 Get Started T393295.

In conclusion, a) we did have enough people in our groups at that time to calculate constructive activation results for the two variant groups and assess the statistical significance on constructive activation result data and b) we decided to pull all data the week of the 16th. I confirmed data pull and related items on the #growth-standup channel when complete and continued to track 1.2.17 Get Started T393295 planning and deployment calendar progress.

@KStoller-WMF we ran out of time this morning at the demo for presenting this report. Can I share this report at the next demo (in two weeks) or would you prefer an async discussion in the Growth team channel?

I think sharing the link to the report in this task and in Slack with a brief overview would be great. If there are a lot of questions we can use next demo time, or schedule a one-off meeting.

@KStoller-WMF I'll post a 1.2.9 blurb on the group Slack channel on Friday and will stay posted for questions.

Here's the 1.2.9 report link.

This work is complete, here’s the report link.

Great! I've updated the associated project page and linked to the final report:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Constructive_activation_experimentation#Surfacing_Structured_Tasks_in_Read_Mode_Pilot_Experiment

Let's resolve this task (and the related epic 🎉!)