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Lessons learned from data

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  • 3x the number of unique responders as mobile editors during test period (4.5K editors, 12.3K WikiGrokkers), even with WikiGrok on sample of articles & users
  • 1.5x better clickthrough than 2014 Fundraising full-screen mobile banner
    • Using the same design, on May 5th we prompted 6.25% of our users to opt into the beta site. Beta opt ins jumped from 2.5k a day to almost 90k a day. Reduced percentage in bucket to half and reduced to 40k however over time these opt ins decreased. Shows that this translates to things other than Wikigrok. 

Wikidata (technical)

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  • Still remains difficult to do things cross wiki/cross url e.g. get description, get image, save data. Personally I believe our API endpoints should be able to talk to all our backends without resorting to CORs.
  • Wikidata API is not as flexible as it could be. To save a list of infobox claims for example, you have to make an API request for each claim. Should be possible to do this in bulk.
  • When querying images, thumbnails are not provided making it difficult to render images that are stored in wikidata (see T76827)

Open Questions

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Possible future implementations

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Tests comparisons

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Microcontributions and user engagement

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