Of course, I meant right-justified...
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I like the changes from what I can see so far. Some of the stuff I was saying earlier had gone is now back, so it looks like it was a temporary thing while the changes were made. I like the way the text now adjusts to being left-justified so you can see the whole text. I now need to try typing the title of the longest article (which was mentioned somewhere recently) to see if that will break the new gizmo. :-)
Carcharoth
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Naoko Komura nkomura@wikimedia.org wrote:
Just a quick update:
Updated search interface was rolled-out to English Wikipedia earlier today. Thank you all for your quick feedback.
Regarding the search location, we understand the inconvenience and the sense of disorientation when the frequently used tool is moved around. However, we found from the usability study that the interaction to search field/interface increased significantly when the search location was moved to the top right. Improvement of the search experience was also contributed by the improvement of the search engine (lucene), and the clean-up of the search result page where the relevant results received high-priority in ranking than missing pages or error messages. We are monitoring the search query volume before and after the Vector launch to compare if the search location change had an impact on the search query volume. We hope to publish the stats next week.
Regarding the default behavior whether it should go to an article or full-text search when an enter key is hit, it is a bigger discussion. Based on the feedback during early prototype phase, we dropped the idea of reversing the search behavior to give full-text search instead of article search, as article search and serving matched article is unique to Wikimedia projects and it showcases how many topics we cover. The new search interface gives user an option to chose from the article name space or full-text search from the drop down menu.
So, will you give another try?
- Naoko
Naoko Komura wrote:
Hi, everyone.
We have received problem reports and feedback that search queries were truncated sometimes and the search suggestions were hard to read or chose due to the limited width. We apologize for introducing broken behaviors in using the search. In order to mitigate spreading the problem, the new search function was disabled on May 15, and the search field was increased by fifty percent on May 18. We are aware that this temporary fix still does not accommodate the search for long article names.
We have updated the new search interface to address the issues above and it is currently staged on the the prototype [1]. This update addresses the reported issues such as truncation of search queries [2] and the search suggestions are cut-off [3]. Prototypes in various languages are also available here[4].
Please give it a spin and let us know your feedback. If the functionality is confirmed solid, we would like to re-enable the new search feature later this week.
Thanks a bunch in advance,
- Naoko
User Experience Programs @ WMF
[1] http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23498
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