Hi Deb,
1. Is the proposed new page for mobile, desktop, or both?
2. Would the change affect the Apple and Android apps?
3. My personal first impression is that I like the new proposal. However, because it is a content/design change, it should go through a community RfC on Meta. My hunch is that it will be approved after about a month. Whether or not the change is approved, the discussion should provide some valuable feedback for future possibilities of that portal.
Thanks,
Pine
On Jul 7, 2016 14:46, "Deborah Tankersley" <dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> The Wikimedia Foundation Discovery Portal team [1] has recently completed tests to see if a new Wikipedia.org [3] page design would be easier to navigate by adding a dropdown that contained all the languages by article count list.
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> The test results [4] did indeed find that visitors were more likely to click through to a link and there was a lower amount of 'non-action' on the page, because of the new design. We also tested the page with many Wikipedia users and received comments that the new page design was aesthetically pleasing and less cluttered.
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> Based on this information, we would like to promote this into production on the Wikipedia.org portal, but we want to ask the community for feedback and/or suggestions [5].
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> Cheers from the Discovery Portal team!
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> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal
> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131526
> [3] https://www.wikipedia.org
> [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_AB_Test_of_Collapsing_links_to_Wikipedia_in_other_languages.pdf
> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout
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