Hi all, hi DJ
Thank you for your comments! Those are some valid concerns. A few
clarifications and related updates:
1. Current bugs: We have been tracking all current issues from the
Greek/Catalan test. The page for the results also has some updates on each
task here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/GreekCatalanTest#Major_Bugs_Reported>.
I'd also like to point out that we do not plan on releasing the feature
before all these issues are resolved (except for the ones marked for future
implementation) and thoroughly tested.
2. Expected Functionality: The list of acceptance criteria before
release, in terms of functionality, can be found here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/Functionality>.
All criteria necessary prior to release is noted on this page. The page
also has some ideas/new functionality which are marked for future
iterations.
3. Phabricator: since we are refactoring the hovercards code, we have
decided to stall current bugs until after the refactor - we are hoping that
most of them will no longer be applicable and can be immediately closed,
but we're currently keeping them around to account for any edge cases that
might occur. The phabricator tasks currently lined up/in progress are the
following:
1. Refactoring and accounting for basic functionality:
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149801>
2. Visual design:
3. Accounting for edge cases where previews are not available:
4. Building preferences for logged-in users:
5. Identifying service that will allow optimal summaries:
6. Allowing hovercards to use RESTbase API endpoint:
Cheers,
Olga
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:50 PM Derk-Jan Hartman <
d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm glad to see progress on this front. I do
however have one concern, and
that is that multiple of the issues identified in A/B testing of 2015, are
still open. I know there has been progress in several areas (esp. some of
the objections raised in the en.wp consultation of early 2016), but if
issues were important enough to mention them in the Greek Catalan report,
and 80% of those issues are still open today, then this seems worthy
evaluating to me.
I also see little management and sorting of issues on the Phabricator
dashboard, which gives me no ability to assess potential impact and make
distinction between bugs that might impact the release, vs things that are
enhancements, non-issues etc etc.
DJ
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello,
Hovercards, currently a beta feature, is nearing release. [0] We'd like
to
encourage communities to adopt Hovercards as a
default option for
logged-out readers. [1] Hovercards provide a preview of any linked
article,
giving readers a quick understanding of a related
article without leaving
the current page. The Reading web team recently completed a series of A/B
tests to gather information on how Hovercards are used.
* April 2015 - Catalan and Greek A/B test results [2]
* Summer/Fall 2016 Hungarian, Italian, and Russian Wikipedia A/B test
results [3]
* 2016 Reading team UX research [4]
As you can see the results of the tests were generally positive. A few
key
highlights:
* During the Catalan and Greek A/B test, 79% of respondents either Agreed
or Strongly Agreed that Hovercards were easy to use, 76% of respondents
either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that Hovercards were useful for their
needs.
* Users are viewing approximately 0.99 hovercards per session, and
interacting with approximately 31% more pages each session. [5]
* The disable rate was very low: the rate of clicking the settings cog
for
Hovercards was 0.02% for Hungarian, 0.034% for
Italian, and 0.016% for
Russian Wikipedia. The rates for disabling the feature were even lower.
* In our qualitative tests, 13 out of 15 questionnaire participants
reported positive experiences with Hovercards.
== Rollout plan ==
The next step for Hovercards is to develop a plan for rolling the feature
out to all projects. We have created a draft proposal for which projects
to
discuss Hovercards with and approximate timeline
for deployments. [6]
The Reading Web team will be reaching out to the communities in the order
listed above to discuss how to implement the feature. We want to enable
the
feature by default for logged-out users and we
will respect the current
beta feature preferences for logged-in users.
Questions and feedback welcome at Beta Features/Hovercards. [7]
Thank you for your time.
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[1] Logged-out users would see Hovercards by default on wikis that
opt-in.
Logged-out users may turn Hovercards off via the
cog-icon displayed at
the
bottom of each Hovercard. Logged-in users see
Hovercards if they have
enabled the feature. New accounts created after the launch of Hovercards
would have it on by default (mimicking the default for logged-out users)
with the option to disable in Special:Preferences.
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/
GreekCatalanTest
[3]
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/
Design_Research/Reading_Team_UX_Research/Hovercards_Usability
[5] With page interactions defined as the sum of average hovercards
viewed
per session and average pages viewed per session
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards#Rollout_Plan
[7]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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