Nemo,
Do you think it would be useful to file all these as phab bugs? That's
what I did but I see you did not. I would like to know what is better.
Svetlana
On 2017-03-17 18:31:50 +1100 "Federico Leva (Nemo)"
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the development, tests and updates.
Compared to the traditional crosswiki search, this interface has some
potential weaknesses.
1) Custom logos/icons are used, which have not been thoroughly tested
in the
past and are vastly inferior to the actual project logos (for
instance
they're black and white and the icon for the dictionary focuses on
the Latin
alphabet). A test is needed against the normal icons to see if there
is a
proven improvement: otherwies, just use the actual logos.
2) Showing a snippet means you're only able to show one search result
from
each wiki, if I see correctly. Cross-wiki search is most useful when
one
searches an ambiguous term which might yield unexpected results, so
it takes
quite a bit of optimism to assume that the first result will be
effective. I
suggest to test an alternative version where either some wiki gets
more
results shown than another (e.g. if the match score is close) or
every wiki
gets more results shown and there is no snippet.
3) The images take a lot of space. In many of my informal usability
tests
(looking over the people's shoulders while they complete wiki tasks
at
workshops), I often see people not finding the search results at all
because
the results are below the fold or just because stuff on top acts as a
visual
barrier. I suggest to try a variant without any multimedia results at
all
(there's already the multimedia tab anyway), or where they take much
less
space, so that the actual search results are as close as possible to
a region
where they're visible to the user.
Nemo
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