Extension:GrowthExperiments

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GrowthExperiments
Release status: stable
Implementation Special page
Description Contains experiments done by the Growth team
Author(s) Stephane Bisson, Sergio Gimeno, Kosta Harlan, Roan Kattouw, Mew Ophaswongse, Gergő Tisza, Martin Urbanec
Compatibility policy Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki >= 1.43.0
PHP 7.2+
Database changes Yes
Tables growthexperiments_link_recommendations
growthexperiments_link_submissions
growthexperiments_mentee_data
growthexperiments_mentor_mentee
growthexperiments_user_impact
License GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
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Quarterly downloads 5 (Ranked 128th)
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The GrowthExperiments extension is used by Wikimedia Foundation sites for experiments done by the Growth team. The extension contains features for:

Integrations

GrowthExperiments integrates with the following extensions:

  • Echo - for informing new users and mentors about various opportunities
  • VisualEditor - for a better editing experience when doing suggested tasks
  • PageViewInfo - for various interface elements trying to explain the user's current or potential impact, most notably the "impact" module on Special:Homepage
  • MobileFrontend - for showing a mobile-optimized version of various features
  • UniversalLanguageSelector - for language selection in the post-registration survey
  • Flow - for messaging features ("ask help" dialog on the homepage and in the help panel) when the target page is a Flow page
  • CirrusSearch - for various search features used during suggested tasks

In theory all of these extensions are optional, although the behavior of GrowthExperiments without them is not heavily tested.

The extension also uses some web APIs which are probably unavailable for non-Wikimedia wikis:

  • Page Content Service for displaying task card information such as a description and an image
  • Analytics Query Service for interface elements related to impact (this is abstracted away via the PageViewInfo extension on the server-side, but for client-side features that's not always possible)
  • Add Link for link recommendation tasks
  • Add Image for image recommendation tasks


Installation

To download GrowthExperiments:

git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments" extensions/GrowthExperiments

Read the developer setup documentation for further configuration required.

Development