I'm using the portal much more these days! Two thoughts, a few days in:
= Is there a way to turn on thumbnailing on the individual language wikis
too?
= Auto-suggesting language based on charset would be nice. when searching
in multiple languages I always forget once to switch to the target language
and end up getting search results for kanji on he.wp or for hebrew on ja.wp
Thanks, SJ
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Michael Jahn <michael.jahn(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
I've played around a bit. Feels very cool!
Michael
2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hello!
I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the
Wikipedia.org
<http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is
more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available)
in
the search results (see attached image).
This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a
JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript
enabled
browsers will see all the new meta data.
Alongside that effort, we also
ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet
Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when
choosing
a language to search in. (Note: in older IE
versions and JS disabled
browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will
not
be displayed.)
We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for
Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search
box.
When a user toggles the language selector, the
full language name will be
displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to
search in. For the more technical minded - I've attached a screenshot of
one of the ways we test our code, visually.
We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions!
On behalf of the very happy
Wikipedia.org Portal Team,
Deb
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Wikimedia Foundation
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