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 -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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 -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

What happened to the search box "Find Wikipedia in your language"? 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley &lt;dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org&gt;rg>: in enabled choosing not box. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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 &lt;michael.jahn(a)wikimedia.de&gt; wrote: is available) be to of unter -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>