Setting up a page in labs isn't too hard, you and jan both have admin
access to the `search` project in wikitech. I've gone ahead and booted up a
new instance there for you, portal.eqiad.wmflabs.  I've also added a proxy
for it, http://portal.wmflabs.org.

Quite often the easiest way to set something like this up is to make a git
repository, and then have a cronjob on the portal just auto-update the git
repository. If you want to go that way i can make you a new repo in gerrit
or however you want to do it.

For the moment i just copied
rutherfordium.eqiad.wmnet:~jgirault/public_html to
portal.eqiad.wmflabs:/var/www

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:52 PM, billinghurst <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Julien,
>
> I would like to see some examples that are run for the sister wikis,
> at the moment the trend is for the examples to be very wikiPedia
> specific. It would be useful to see how these things are useful for
> the whole wikimedia set of sites. Also for portals, there would be
> value in providing results in other languages, and sisters.  That we
> limit a search result to the one place we stand rather than the
> neighbourhood in which we live, indicates living in a world with
> imposed blinkers.
>
> -- billinghurst
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Julien Girault <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page.
> >
> > The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our portal
> > page, things that are completely different than what the current portal
> page
> > looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But without
> > imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a link to
> > this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users can
> have
> > an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the experiments
> their
> > default.
> >
> >
> >
> > We would have two trains:
> >
> > - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on the
> > official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn.
> >
> > - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also collect
> > traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also
> > implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype
> page
> > that points to a Phab ticket where community can add comments/feedback).
> >
> > To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I uploaded
> > some of my research time work:
> > https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/
> >
> > Pay closer attention to:
> > Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid)
> > Trending Showing top 10 articles (full screen)
> >
> >
> > This would allow us to think outside the box and test different
> > layouts/features, with real users who chose to.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think
> about
> > it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or beta
> > portal, or something else.
> >
> > Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go
> > towards making this happen and what we should name it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Julien
> >
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