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Remove no-link-recommendation variant from GrowthExperiments
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Description

As part of T395524, we deployed the “Add a link” Growth feature to 100% of users on English Wikipedia. This made the no-link-recommendation variant, originally used for partial deployments, obsolete.

Since the experiment is now disabled and we no longer need to exclude a subset of users, we should remove the no-link-recommendation variant from configuration and any related code paths.

Acceptance Criteria:

  • Confirm with @KStoller-WMF that there is no plan to revert to a partial deployment state for enwiki.
    • There is no plan to revert to a partial deployment (although there is always potential that this is something the community will ask for after release. Let's wait at least a sprint after the enwiki release).
  • Remove the no-link-recommendation variant from CommonSettings.php and any other relevant configuration files.
  • Remove any associated logic in GrowthExperiments that references this variant.
  • Verify that “Add a link” remains enabled for 100% of users after cleanup.
  • Update documentation (if any) that references the variant.

Event Timeline

Cyndymediawiksim renamed this task from Remove no-link-recommendation variant from enwiki configuration to Remove no-link-recommendation variant from configs.Aug 25 2025, 8:51 AM
Urbanecm_WMF renamed this task from Remove no-link-recommendation variant from configs to Remove no-link-recommendation variant from GrowthExperiments.Aug 25 2025, 4:04 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Inbox to Estimated tasks backlog on the Growth-Team board.
KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
KStoller-WMF set the point value for this task to 2.

Change #1182121 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cyndywikime; author: Cyndywikime):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Remove no-link-recommendation variant and related code

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1182121

Change #1182125 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cyndywikime; author: Cyndywikime):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth]: Remove obsolete no-link-recommendation variant

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1182125

Change #1182125 abandoned by Cyndywikime:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth]: Remove obsolete no-link-recommendation variant

Reason:

Per Martn, it makes sense to first remove the usage of the variant and then the implementation. Done in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/1179648

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1182125

Change #1182121 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Remove no-link-recommendation variant and related code

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1182121

Etonkovidova updated the task description. (Show Details)