On the long run, I think, these portals and their texts should be translatable. Browser settings determining the target language. Looking forward to have them on translatewiki.net !

Purodha

On 21.05.2016 13:52, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:

I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But I would suggest taking them to meta to settle on what they should be exactly, and also then documenting them (including arguments) to make sure that they can be used consistently throughout the projects.

I was wondering about the colors. Have we considered the MediaWiki/OOjs UI color theme already. In my opinion the portal feels more cologneblue than Vector right now..

Also, I do wonder a bit about the consistency of the portals and the lack of options for reuse of these improvements by other portals, and I personally think it would be great to start expanding parts of the development to other portals now. I think it would be wonderful if we could create a pipeline of reusable elements among the portals, that allows for some consistency, but trying to avoid blandness and uniformity. Simple things like a library of Less variables usable by all portal pages can mean a lot for these kinds of efforts and I'd love to see some attention devoted to that, so that other portal pages can benefit.

For community participation, I also have some ideas: 1: There is no README.md 2: Make sure that it's easy to test the master version. The great thing about github for instance is that you can do tricks like: https://cdn.rawgit.com/wikimedia/portals/master/prod/wikipedia.org/index.htm... That's powerful to be able to preview straight from a git repo. If you have links like that to the readme/meta page. 3: Update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals

DJ

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On 20 mei 2016, at 18:45, Deborah Tankersley dtankersley@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hello,

The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to the Wikipedia.org page footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister wiki projects are really all about. Check it out at www.wikipedia.org or view a mobile screen capture here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Descriptive-text_sister_projects-wikipedia_footer_mobile.png .

We also wrapped up a quick, one question survey that ran for a week on the portal to determine how visitors arrive at the page. The results showed that many of the visitors arrive by clicking on a bookmarked link or by typing in 'wikipedia' in their browser. We had many encouraging and uplifting comments as well - see the full results here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.pdf .

In the coming weeks and months we'll be reaching out to many of those survey takers who graciously provided their name and email addresses to engage in deeper conversations on how they use the portal and Wikipedia in general.

As always, more detailed information is available on wiki for the Wikipedia Portal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal and A/B testing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing.

On behalf of our happy little Wikipedia.org Portal team,

Deb

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