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Run test of having VisualEditor on for some newly-created accounts on the English Wikipedia
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Added to Roadmap for late March 2015 (stretch goal per Q3 goals).

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For updates about pilot and study, please see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study .
There's a conversation about success criteria at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor#Success_Criteria .

Also, adding @Halfak who's actually leading this?

Change 205778 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
Enable a test of the VisualEditor A/B testing framework

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/205778

Change 211697 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
Enable A/B test of VisualEditor for new accounts on English Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/211697

Change 211698 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
Disable A/B test of VisualEditor for new accounts on English Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/211698

Change 205778 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable a test of the VisualEditor A/B testing framework

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/205778

Not resolved. The real A/B test is in the future.

Change 211697 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable A/B test of VisualEditor for new accounts on English Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/211697

Change 211698 merged by jenkins-bot:
Disable A/B test of VisualEditor for new accounts on English Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/211698

Test continues with data collection and then analysis, but the engineering side of opting people in is now complete.

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