Community Updates module: Show module based on feature variant assigned by MetricsPlatform
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	Sep 12 2024, 3:41 PM

Description

Currently the module displays according to business rules which are (1) The update must have a non-empty title and description (2) the user has the minimum number of edits set in community config. However there's no logic to only display the module to a given experiment variant. This task is to fix that.

Related task that needs to be complete prior to this one: T373406: Add experiment enrollment functionality to the Metrics Platform extension

Acceptance criteria

The experiment has a control group and a treatment group with equal distribution 0.5
The module is only displayed to users in the experiment variant community-updates

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Community updates: show module based on experiment variant	mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments	master	+4 -1
	[DNM][WIP] ExperimentUserManager: use MetricsPlatform variant assignment	mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments	master	+234 -118

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		KStoller-WMF	T360485 [EPIC] Newcomer homepage: Community updates module (FY23/24 WE1.3 / FY24/25 SDS2.1.3)
		Declined		Sgs	T374632 Community Updates module: Show module based on feature variant assigned by MetricsPlatform

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Sgs created this task.Sep 12 2024, 3:41 PM

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Sgs added a project: GrowthExperiments-Community-Updates.Sep 12 2024, 3:42 PM

Sgs updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 12 2024, 3:44 PM

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Sep 12 2024, 9:30 PM

KStoller-WMF added a parent task: T360485: [EPIC] Newcomer homepage: Community updates module (FY23/24 WE1.3 / FY24/25 SDS2.1.3).

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Inbox to Up Next (estimated tasks) on the Growth-Team board.

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• VirginiaPoundstone moved this task from Sprint Goal to Backlog on the WMF-SDS 2 Sprinthackular 2024 board.Sep 13 2024, 2:24 PM

• VirginiaPoundstone moved this task from Backlog to Blocked on the WMF-SDS 2 Sprinthackular 2024 board.Sep 13 2024, 4:15 PM

Sgs renamed this task from Show Community updates module based on feature variant to Community Updates module: Show module based on feature variant.Sep 17 2024, 9:29 AM

Change #1073442 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sergio Gimeno; author: Sergio Gimeno):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] [DNM][WIP] ExperimentUserManager: use MetricsPlatform variant assignment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1073442

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 17 2024, 12:17 PM

KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 17 2024, 1:37 PM

Sgs claimed this task.Sep 17 2024, 1:45 PM

Sgs moved this task from Blocked to In Process on the WMF-SDS 2 Sprinthackular 2024 board.Sep 17 2024, 1:49 PM

Team meeting notes:

@Sgs will break out subtasks
Clearer acceptance criteria needed before estimation.

Sgs moved this task from In Process to Blocked on the WMF-SDS 2 Sprinthackular 2024 board.Sep 17 2024, 3:56 PM

Sgs moved this task from Up Next (estimated tasks) to Blocked on the Growth-Team board.

KStoller-WMF mentioned this in Growth-Team (FY2024-25 Q1 Sprint 6).Sep 17 2024, 10:25 PM

Sgs moved this task from Blocked to In Process on the WMF-SDS 2 Sprinthackular 2024 board.Sep 20 2024, 3:25 PM

KStoller-WMF mentioned this in T372840: Newcomer homepage: Release plan for the Community updates module.Sep 23 2024, 10:44 PM

Sgs updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 24 2024, 2:13 PM

Change #1075288 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sergio Gimeno; author: Sergio Gimeno):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Community updates: show module based on experiment variant

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1075288

Change #1073442 abandoned by Sergio Gimeno:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] [DNM][WIP] ExperimentUserManager: use MetricsPlatform variant assignment

Reason:

Was exploratory work, see other changes in experiments-mp

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1073442

Sgs edited projects, added Growth-Team (FY2024-25 Q1 Sprint 6); removed Growth-Team.Sep 24 2024, 6:11 PM

Sgs moved this task from Incoming to Doing on the Growth-Team (FY2024-25 Q1 Sprint 6) board.

Sgs moved this task from Doing to Blocked / Needs Work on the Growth-Team (FY2024-25 Q1 Sprint 6) board.Sep 25 2024, 4:02 PM

KStoller-WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (Current Sprint); removed Growth-Team (FY2024-25 Q1 Sprint 6).Sep 30 2024, 11:55 PM

Per discussions with Growth engineers and in T374471, the variant assignment will be done by the current GrowthExperiments experiment manager until the MP bucketing system does not provide the complete set of functionality for Growth experiments.

Sgs renamed this task from Community Updates module: Show module based on feature variant to Community Updates module: Show module based on feature variant assigned by MetricsPlatform.Oct 1 2024, 11:19 AM

@KStoller-WMF should we close this task as invalid or declined?

Yes, I think we can consider this task as declined as we took a different approach:

@Sgs Should we update / abandon: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/1075288

Sgs mentioned this in T377233: Show Community updates module based on experiment variant.Oct 15 2024, 3:14 PM

In T374632#10219382, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

Yes, I think we can consider this task as declined as we took a different approach:

T374471: Decide which bucketing/variant assignment system should we use

T376266: Allow to assign an experiment variant to existing account holders

@Sgs Should we update / abandon: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/1075288

I believe this task can be revived when we decide it's the right time. I'm keeping all the MP bucketing integration work in gerrit as WIP (experiments-mp) until we decide the timeline and next steps for adoption.

KStoller-WMF reopened this task as Open.Oct 16 2024, 5:49 PM

KStoller-WMF removed a project: WMF-SDS 2 Sprinthackular 2024.

KStoller-WMF closed this task as Declined.Feb 12 2025, 1:04 AM

Change #1075288 abandoned by Sergio Gimeno:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Community updates: show module based on experiment variant

Reason:

The experiment was already conducted with ExperimentUserDefaultsManager

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1075288

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 2 2025, 4:31 PM