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Remove growthexperiments-homepage-enable user property
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When the Homepage was an experimental feature, we had a user property to track who was opted into it, and who is not. Now that the Homepage is enabled for 100% of new user registrations on all Wikipedias, we don't need a user property anymore.

We'll want to review existing usages of the property:

and also isHomepageEnabled which checks the property:

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kostajh created this task.Mar 22 2023, 8:39 PM
Restricted Application added a project: Growth-Team. · View Herald TranscriptMar 22 2023, 8:39 PM
kostajh mentioned this in T332826: Remove GEHomepageEnabled config flag.Mar 22 2023, 8:41 PM
Tgr added a comment.Mar 23 2023, 12:54 AM

It's only enabled for 80% on dewiki. Plus there's an URL flag for force-disabling it (though probably not needed), and it's used to differentiate autocreated users (something that's not trivial to check after the fact).

Tgr moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.Apr 13 2023, 9:48 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Triaged to Needs Discussion on the Growth-Team board.Jan 23 2024, 3:23 PM

I think that (nearly) removing that property from user_properties in the database is now relatively easy thanks to conditional defaults. Whether we should remove it for good is up to discussion (personally, I don't think that's a good idea, but that's up to discussion).

Moving to Needs Discussion to decide on what the task should be about.

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