Hi Romaine,
We're glad you like the new page functionality! I've opened up a ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137215> to fix the Dutch phrase
translation typo, thanks for letting us know. :)
For your comment about adding in an option to change the language, I'm
curious about something, as this has come up before. Would you prefer to
use the portal page in the language that is detected (as we do now) or in a
different language but not actually searching on that language's wiki?
For instance, if your preferred language is Dutch: would it make sense for
you to click on that language link on the portal page to go to
nl.wikipedia.org and then do a search? Or, even if the browser's language
is detected as Dutch (nl) would you rather use the portal page to search in
a different language, like English?
Yes, thanks for asking, the sister project links will be translated and we
have a ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136441> open to get that
started. We wanted the descriptive text to be visible on the page to give
more insight into the sister projects, even though we don't have the text
translated yet.
Cheers,
Deb
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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Deb,
Great improvement!
Looking at the page, I only notice one major error. My language is Dutch
(nl), and so my browser/computer system is set that way. However the phrase
is spelled wrong: it says: "De vrieje encyclopedie" while it should say
"De
vrije encyclopedie". So: vrieje -> vrije. "vrieje" is not a Dutch word.
Can
this be fixed?
Further I would recommend one thing to be added to the page. Because large
parts of the word visit Wikipedia through internet cafés and computers
elsewhere, I would suggest in the top right/left corner an option to change
the language.
And one final question: will the bottom section of the page also be
translatable?
Thanks!
Romaine
2016-06-07 0:05 GMT+02:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hello,
The Discovery team recently updated the
wikipedia.org portal page to
detect what the visitor's browser's preferred language(s) are and then
arrange the language links around the globe to match those language
preferences.
Earlier this year, we ran a successful A/B test
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing#A.2FB_test:_browser_language_detection_.28completed.29>
that proved promoting our visitor's preferred languages resulted in
increased visibility and interest into these projects. Also, the display of
'*The Free Encyclopedia*' phrase is now localized to the visitor's first
preferred browser language. If there isn't a translation available, the
phrase will be displayed in English (view a screenshot
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikipedia_portal_top_10_links_re-sort.png>)
as it currently is today.
Additionally, a new A/B test
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing#A.2FB_test:_languages_by_article_count_.28in_progress.29>
will kick
off this week to determine if the listing of languages by article count can
be displayed in a more modern and streamlined way without decreasing usage
of the links. Our goal is to promote easy scrolling through the long list
of languages by article count, but in a dropdown format while also
providing greater discovery of the sister wiki project links.
More information on past and future work can be found on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> as well as the
sprint <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/discovery-portal-sprint/>
and backlog
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/discovery-portal-backlog/>
boards. We're always interested in receiving constructive feedback from
the community: if you have a question or comment, please start a discussion
on the talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia.org_Portal>.
Cheers,
Deb
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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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