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(a)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
[3]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23558
[4]
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prototype
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