Cool write up!
On the topic of "wiki" queries (adding "wiki" or "wikipedia"
to a query to
get more results from Wikipedia), I saw just under 3% of queries
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Why_People_Use_Search_Engines#Wiki_terms>
from Google (among those with recoverable query strings) had some wiki
terms in them. That's queries, not users, so I'm guessing a lot of people
do it (I do it!).
*Daisy,* the next to last slide, "Research Recoomendations", is chopped off
on the right side, and the last line of each bullet seems to be in a
smaller font.
Good stuff!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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
--
Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
IRC: debt
Wikimedia Foundation
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