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A/A test with logged-in users on Commons, WikiData, Mediawiki, MetaWiki to investigate SRM
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Description

In PSI's email confirmation banner experiment, there was considerable SRM, especially on specific properties. Some wikipedias had approximately equal splits between treatment and control, but other properties had very imbalanced splits:

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This begs the question: why? Is something different happening on those properties? We don't usually run A/A tests on those pages, so to my knowledge, we haven't noticed if there are any structural imbalances there.

Acceptance Criteria

  • Run an A/A test with logged in users on Commons, WikiData, MediaWiki and MetaWiki to check for an imbalance

Event Timeline

JVanderhoop-WMF renamed this task from Investigate SRM on Commons, WikiData, Mediawiki, MetaWiki to A/A test with logged-in users on Commons, WikiData, Mediawiki, MetaWiki to investigate SRM.Tue, Jun 2, 10:39 PM
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