Reading/Web/Projects/Related pages/Moving to stable

Plan and analysis
The Reading team would like to move forward with making related pages a stable feature on mobile web on all Wikipedias (except for the German Wikipedia, which rejected the feature, unless they decided to re-think their vote). The decisions is based on the fact that feature performance on mobile after over 3 months of running in beta, (click though X%) is enough matrix to enable us to move the feature to stable. The click through rate is an indication that readers are inclined to check further related topics on the articles as we offer them. This is a good starting point, in which further feature development can stem from.

Timeline and tasks

 * Announce the plan and time line by Sept 1st
 * Allow 3-4 weeks of discussion
 * (On Desktop) Remove Related pages from desktop beta feature on all Wikipedias --if a community needs an exception, let us know; we understand that the feature might be helpful in populating article in relatively small or new Wikipedias
 * On mobile, start a staged roll out, where we exclude the top 6 Wikipedias in terms of article count, deploy the feature to all other Wikis at once. This helps making stable bug fixes easier, given smaller traffic
 * If all goes well, start deployment according to the above plan by early October.

Community feedback summary

 * Concerns/comments around how the algorithm behaves
 * Changes have been deployed to the way how the logic of the selected articles is implemented. (Details)


 * Concerns around the display non-free images on English WP
 * This has been resolved via Extension:PageImages and will continue to have feature enhancement


 * Concerns around the click-through rate as a sole metric for measuring feature success.
 * As mentioned above, the click through rate is a helpful indication to help us realize user interest in the idea of offering articles related to the topic they are reading/browsing.

Data
Query: SELECT count(*) AS num_Events, event_eventName,

LEFT(TIMESTAMP, 8) AS dt, event_skin

FROM RelatedArticles_14496900

GROUP BY dt, event_eventName, event_skin;

Future modifications

 * Major pending tasks before launch