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Central notification banner experiment evaluation Part 1
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Description

Based on the measurement plan and wiki selections defined in this ticket, T391041, six wikis are selected: Minangkabau Wikipedia (min), South Azerbaijani Wikipedia (azb), Punjabi Wikipedia (pa), Luxembourgish Wikipedia (lb), Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia (ary), Zulu Wikipedia (zu).

As Part 1 of the evaluation, we will run the analysis immediately after the experiment concludes.

The metrics for evaluation are:

  • Total number of people who have clicked and viewed the banner
  • Total number of accounts created
  • Total number of people who have used GrowthFeatures (registered users vs. newcomers)
  • GrowthFeatures engagement rate = Number of users who have used GrowthFeatures / Clicks on the banners

Event Timeline

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Please find Part 1 of the analysis here https://nbviewer.org/urls/gitlab.wikimedia.org/conniecc1/we2.1.1-kr-2025/-/raw/main/central-notification-banner-PART1.ipynb

Summary
Impressions & Clicks
Scenario 1 (Banner A) had a total of 17,257,300 impressions and 8,150 clicks. Scenario 2 (Banner B&C) had 1,819,086 impressionsa and 2,616 clicks.

WikiClicksImpressionsBanner
arywiki1,132784,700A
minwiki3,0597,552,600A
pawiki3,9598,921,000A
astwiki694369,200B&C
lbwiki1,6891,381,086B&C
zuwiki23368,800B&C

Account Creations
Scenario 1 (Banner A) had a total of 164 account creations. Scenario 2 (Banner B&C) had 69 account creations.

WikiNew AccountsBanner
arywiki62A
minwiki19A
pawiki83A
astwiki39B&C
lbwiki21B&C
zuwiki9B&C

Growth Features Engagement
Scenario 1 (Banner A) had 81 users engaged with GrowthFeature homepage. Scenarios (Banner B&C) had 47 users engaged with GrowthFeatures homepage.

WikiInteractionsBanner
arywiki33A
minwiki11A
pawiki37A
astwiki29B&C
lbwiki13B&C
zuwiki5B&C

Growth Features Engagement Rate Comparison

  • Overall, Scenario 1 (Banner A) had an engagement rate of 0.99%, and Scenario 2 (Banner B&C) had an engagement rate of 1.80%. And based on the test, the difference is statistically significant. Scenario 2 has a higher growth feature homepage engagement.
  • High activity language & size wiki (pawiki & lbwiki): pawiki had an engagement rate of 0.93%, and lbwiki had an engagement rate of 0.77%. From the test result, the difference is not statistically significant. We cannot conclude that which Scenario has a higher growth feature homepage engagement than the other one for this group.
  • Med activity language & size wiki (minwiki & astwiki): minwiki had an engagement rate of 0.36%, and astwiki had an engagement rate of 4.18%. From the test result, the difference is statistically significant. Scenario 2 has a higher growth feature homepage engagement than Scenario 1 for this group.
  • Low activity language & size wiki (arywiki & zuwiki): arywiki had an engagement rate of 2.92%, and zuwiki had an engagement rate of 2.15%. From the test result, the difference is not statistically significant. We cannot conclude that which Scenario has a higher growth feature homepage engagement than the other one for this group.
  • In conclusion, when comparing engagement rate, Scenario 2 (banner B&C) is the more effective. Its overall performance was statistically significant better than Scenario 1 (Banner A). However, this effect was not consistent across all wiki segments. for medium-Activity wikis, where Scenario 2 was more effective. For both the High-Activity and Low-Activity wikis, there was no significant difference in performance between the two scenarios. It's possible for a real effect to exist in high and low-activity groups, but the test may not be powerful enough to detect it.

Edits by Newly Registered Users
During the experiment period, we found the following number of edits from newly registered editors:

WikiEdit CountBanner
arywiki23A
minwiki2A
pawiki24A
lbwiki6B&C
arywiki0B&C
zuluwiki0B&C