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SRM for email confirmation banner experiment
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Description

The email confirmation banner experiment currently has a severe SRM. Although the TK setup is configured as a 50/50 split between control and arm_a, the observed sample is heavily skewed toward control.

The current code can count control exposure even when no email-confirmation banner eligibility exists.

Event Timeline

mmartorana changed the task status from Open to In Progress.May 7 2026, 2:13 PM
mmartorana triaged this task as High priority.

Change #1284661 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mmartorana; author: Mmartorana):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284661

Change #1284661 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284661

Change #1284771 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mmartorana; author: Mmartorana):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.47.0-wmf.1] Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284771

Change #1284771 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.47.0-wmf.1] Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284771

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-05-07T20:07:34Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1284687|Provide page context for LintErrorChecker (T419596)]], [[gerrit:1284771|Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module (T425677)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-05-07T20:09:23Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> arlolra, mmartorana: Backport for [[gerrit:1284687|Provide page context for LintErrorChecker (T419596)]], [[gerrit:1284771|Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module (T425677)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-05-07T20:14:52Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1284687|Provide page context for LintErrorChecker (T419596)]], [[gerrit:1284771|Make email confirmation banner a standalone RL module (T425677)]] (duration: 07m 18s)