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
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.ht…
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
On 20 mei 2016, at 18:45, Deborah Tankersley
<dtankersley(a)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
--
Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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