Surfacing "Add a link" Structured Tasks: Test Wikipedia Release
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	Feb 18 2025, 7:10 PM

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User story & summary:

As the Growth team Product Manager, I want the Surfacing "Add a link" experiment released on TEST WIKIPEDIA, so that we can properly test the feature and experiment set up.

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Growth team project page: Constructive activation experimentation
Related Epic: T362584: [EPIC] Surface Structured Tasks to new editors (FY24/25: WE1.2.3 & WE1.2.6 & WE1.2.9)
Release plan: T385343: Surfacing "Add a link" Structured Tasks: Experiment Release (FY24/25 WE1.2.9)

Acceptance Criteria:

At Test Wikipedia, release the "Surfacing Add a link" feature to 50% of logged-in accounts with zero edits, ensure there is also a 50% control group.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	testwiki: enable surfacing structured task experiment	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+2 -0

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T368187 [EPIC] Constructive activation experimentation (Growth work related to Wiki Experiences 1.2)
Open	None	T360489 [EPIC] Generate and present edit suggestions at scale
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T362584 [EPIC] Surface Structured Tasks to new editors (FY24/25: WE1.2.3 & WE1.2.6 & WE1.2.9)
Resolved	Sgs	T385343 Surfacing "Add a link" Structured Tasks: Experiment Release (FY24/25 WE1.2.9)
Resolved	Michael	T386739 Surfacing "Add a link" Structured Tasks: Test Wikipedia Release

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KStoller-WMF created this task.Feb 18 2025, 7:10 PM

KStoller-WMF renamed this task from Surfacing "Add a link" Structured Tasks: Test Wiki Release to Surfacing "Add a link" Structured Tasks: Test Wikipedia Release.

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as High priority.

KStoller-WMF added a project: Add-Link-Structured-Task.

Change #1120646 had a related patch set uploaded (by Michael Große; author: Michael Große):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] testwiki: enable surfacing structured task experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1120646

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 18 2025, 7:55 PM

We probably want to do this before the backports from T385343.

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Change #1120646 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] testwiki: enable surfacing structured task experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1120646

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-19T08:50:31Z] <dcausse@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1120646|testwiki: enable surfacing structured task experiment (T386739)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-19T08:53:23Z] <dcausse@deploy2002> migr, dcausse: Backport for [[gerrit:1120646|testwiki: enable surfacing structured task experiment (T386739)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-19T09:01:12Z] <dcausse@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1120646|testwiki: enable surfacing structured task experiment (T386739)]] (duration: 10m 41s)

This is now live on testwiki 🎉

One needs an account with 0 edits. All accounts are randomly sorted 50%/50% into a treatment and control group. One can opt into the treatment group with (new mw.Api).saveOption('growthexperiments-homepage-variant', 'surfacing-structured-task') or ge.utils.setUserVariant('surfacing-structured-task').

Suitable articles: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=hasrecommendation%3Alink&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1