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Scale variant C from More dynamic tabs to all users
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Description

Background

Based on the results from More dynamic tabs experiment, we want to move forward with the new tab experience from Group C, and the general improvements that were applied in both variants.

We are waiting to scale the "Did you know" and "Because you read" modules at this time.

Requirements
  • Release Group C changes to all users (even those who previously were assigned group B) without DYK & BYR recommendation modules
    • Users can have 0 tabs. If someone closes all tabs, they see an empty state
    • Empty state illustration and text
    • Overflow menu with the ability to close all tabs
    • Add long-press on tabs in overview
    • Highlight the active tab
    • There is no "Default" open tab of the main page. Users start with an empty state (0 tabs)
    • When opening a new tab it brings them to main page, search is not active
  • DYK and BYR modules are removed for existing Group B users
    • "Hide/show recommendations" option removed from overflow.
      • Leave user defaults - we want the device to remember the user's setting for "Show/hide recommendations" even after we remove the "Show/hide recommendations" button UI. That way if we ever re-deploy, those who have chosen to "hide" any time in the past will not have to turn it back off.
  • Remove the survey for all users

Testing Notes

Can be tested in latest Wikipedia 7.8.9 build.

Event Timeline

Tsevener set the point value for this task to 2.Dec 4 2025, 4:28 PM
HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Dec 8 2025, 8:40 PM

@HNordeenWMF - Grey asked if we should continue to log events for Variant C users, I'm thinking the answer is no but want to verify with you. Thanks.

@SNowick_WMF @GOlson-WMF if there are no downsides performance wise, and it doesn't cause additional engineering burden I would like to keep the event logging in place. Since we may decide to re-visit the recommendations with a future release, it makes sense to leave the instrumentation.

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  1. in the tabs overview, the + and ... icons should be swapped so that the + is on the left and the ... is on the right. see screenshot above.
  2. "tab" or "tabs" in the overflow menu should not be capitalized. i only see this issue on iPad. see screenshot above.

@GOlson-WMF

@SChekfa-WMF I can't repro this, can you double-check that you have the latest 7.8.9 app version in TestFlight? I'm on 7.8.9 (5913).

Per combined sync meeting today, this is good to move to QA.

ABorbaWMF subscribed.

Looks good on 7.8.9 (5915) tested on iPhone 16 on iOS 26, iPad Pro 12.9 on iOs 26, and iPhone SE on iOS 26. Tested on all themes.