Talk:Cross-wiki Search Result Improvements/Testing

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What are you going to measure in those tests? Clicks I suppose, but clicks can be interpreted in various ways (for instance I personally think a click towards a sister project is more valuable than one to Wikipedia, for various reasons). Anything else? You probably give for granted your analytics pipeline by now, using also that "searchToken" URL parameter in Special:Search, but I can't find any documentation for it and I don't understand if there will be something more for this test. Nemo 08:06, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry for the late response - I didn't see this comment until today. :( We are the Discovery team, so our main focus is helping visitors to discover more content and more knowledge in Wikipedia and all the other projects. For these tests, the hard data to be collected will be from measuring the clicks to the sister projects from the newly displayed search results. We hope to show that not only are the search results relevant, but that more visitors will use the other projects as well. There will be two links for each search result displayed in the right hand side bar. One link to the article/media that was the top relevant result from a sister project. The other link will be to do the same search in that other sister project -- showing a new search results page in that sister project. We'll be capturing both sets of clicks. DTankersley (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 1 December 2016 (UTC)