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

-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@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@wikimedia.org:

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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

Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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