Hi,
We recently wrapped up survey participant sessions that were centered
around the
Wikipedia.org portal: how did they get there, what did they do
when they arrived, do they know that the footer (with sister project
descriptive text) exists, new language by article count dropdown proposal
and search satisfaction.
We were able to chat with these participants because they took one of our
surveys (in May
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.pdf>
and June <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136874#2418095> 2016) that we
ran on the portal page; which was run to attempt to determine why and how
users arrived at
Wikipedia.org.
Daisy Chen conducted the sessions, sifted and compiled the data and it's
written up here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discovery_-_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Study_Findings_-_July_2016.pdf>.
Daisy will also present the findings and conclusions during July's Research
Showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase> next
week. This research is also instrumental to the new page layout discussion
we have ongoing here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout>.
If there are any questions, please feel free to ping Daisy or myself on the
research and/or the Wikipedia portal and search work.
Cheers,
Deb
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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
IRC: debt
Wikimedia Foundation