I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But I would suggest taking them to meta
to settle on what they should be exactly, and also then documenting them (including
arguments) to make sure that they can be used consistently throughout the projects.
I was wondering about the colors. Have we considered the MediaWiki/OOjs UI color theme
already. In my opinion the portal feels more cologneblue than Vector right now..
Also, I do wonder a bit about the consistency of the portals and the lack of options for
reuse of these improvements by other portals, and I personally think it would be great to
start expanding parts of the development to other portals now.
I think it would be wonderful if we could create a pipeline of reusable elements among the
portals, that allows for some consistency, but trying to avoid blandness and uniformity.
Simple things like a library of Less variables usable by all portal pages can mean a lot
for these kinds of efforts and I'd love to see some attention devoted to that, so that
other portal pages can benefit.
For community participation, I also have some ideas:
1: There is no README.md
2: Make sure that it's easy to test the master version.
The great thing about github for instance is that you can do tricks like:
https://cdn.rawgit.com/wikimedia/portals/master/prod/wikipedia.org/index.ht…
That's powerful to be able to preview straight from a git repo. If you have links like
that to the readme/meta page.
3: Update
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals>
DJ
On 20 mei 2016, at 18:45, Deborah Tankersley
<dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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
--
Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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