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
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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation