In T229426#5468481, we uncovered, "...53.4% of the users (both registered and anonymous) who were bucketed ended up in wikitext default bucket. It turns out that it would be incredibly unlikely (p << 10^-15) to get an imbalance this big if our random assignment was actually 50%–50%. So there's clearly a serious issue somewhere that we need to understand."
bucket | users |
---|---|
source default | 1,302,187 |
visual default | 1,214,917 |
"Done"
This ticket is intended to represent the work of trying to understand the following:
- What might be causing contributors not being assigned to test buckets in a more balanced way?
Contributors' bucket assignments were being recorded after the editor finished loading. This means in situations where contributors abandon their edits before the editor loads, no information about them (including their bucket assignment) is stored. See: T232237#5501940
- What are the implications of contributors not being assigned to test buckets in a more balanced way? (e.g. Are the results, and by extension the test, valid?)
There is a percentage of contributors' editing behavior we do not have access to. This makes further analysis more difficult considering we'd need to exclude them from this analysis or make assumptions about their behavior. See: T232237#5520035