Account Creation Improvement Project/Research/Overall
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Before we change things in the account creation process, we need to look into what we should change. That's why we are doing research. Just so we have the same terms, here is a chart of the account creation process:
We will test various versions of the three pages against each other. This is called A/B testing. 'A' stands for the page we have right now, and 'B' stands for the new version. We can test as many B:s as we have time for, and measure how they fare against each other. We will do these tests on several language versions of Wikipedia, beginning with A/B-testing the landing pages (3), and then the create account pages (2) and lastly the landing pages (1). For a visual representation of this, see this picture: To make it easier to follow the research, it is divided into several pages. This page deals with the numbers of the account creation process. Then there are three pages for each of the steps in the process: step 1, step 2 and step 3. We are also doing a survey on new users to see why they created their accounts. If you feel that some aspect have been forgotten, or want to help out with the research, feel free to add your data or input on the relevant page. Thank you! Account Creation Process statistics[edit]File:Account creation paths.pdf Account creation paths on enwiki and dewiki Before we attempt to do anything, we should find out what we need to do. The initial research tries to find answers to the following questions:
How many people click on "create user account" and don't follow through?[edit]From September 22 on, we're logging user clicks on the Wikimedia logging server to get a daily "account abandonment". We turned on clicktracking for the "Create account" page. We measure how many people land on this page and how many of those actually fill out all the information and click on the "Create account" button. After running the clicktracking for about 6 hours on September 22, we estimate that about 21% of users follow through the current account creation process. This is for all languages and all Wikimedia projects. More data and project breakdowns to follow. How many people create a user account in a given month?[edit]The following data has been extracted from the Wikimedia Toolserver.[1] All data is for August 2010:
How many of these new user accounts are being used for editing?[edit]The following data has been extracted from the Wikimedia Toolserver.[2] All data is for August 2010: File:Percentage of new user accounts with at least one edit (August 2010).png Percentage of new user accounts with at least one edit within 10 days after account creation (August 2010)
How many new users make their first edit on the day of account creation?[edit]The following data has been extracted from the Wikimedia Toolserver.[3] All data is for August 1–15, 2010 (smaller sample than above):
How many new users edit their user page at least once shortly after account creation?[edit]The following data has been extracted from the Wikimedia Toolserver.[4] All data is for August 1–15, 2010 (smaller sample than above):
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