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Experiment title: (TBD) topics for readers

Hypothesis, problems we want to tackle:

Decline in perceived relevance and feeling of belonging among current readers of Wikipedia

Brief description of experiment:

"Give them what they care about" → We want to create a template for a special interest topic page and test it on French Wikipedia, on a few relevant trending topics (K-pop, FIFA Football world cup 2026 page, something else? something "touristy")

Sitenotice (probably not, since it's everywhere) or a template ? (or in the extension RelatedArticles ?) "Something" that link to a landing page (a special page).

What is on this landing page:

  • related articles, e.g. competing football teams
  • Poll, quizzes?
  • Videos?
  • subscribe button?

Manually made for mock-up but ideally automatically generated.

Side idea: we have a "random page", why not "random page in the topic I'm interested in".

Expected outcomes


Timeline

  • Launch date: May
  • Anticipated completion date: end of World Cup in July
  • Share results at Wikimania


Metrics: How do we measure success?

  • obviously: numbers of viewers of the landing page
  • is it possible to count clicks and such?
  • Link to a page where people can follow progress - this can be your own userpage / sandbox
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