Hi all, over the past few weeks, the reading web team has made some releases and improvements we would like to share:
- New Header for the Mobile Web [1]
We have just released a new header on the mobile web! Our goal is to raise awareness among readers that the content we are providing is coming from Wikipedia or related projects using clear branding. Low brand awareness was one of the key findings during the research performed by the New Readers team [2]. According to their findings, user were often not aware that they were reading Wikipedia, and sometimes confused it for a search engine or social media platform [3]. An increase in brand awareness could therefore lead to increased readership and retention.
- Page Previews Stage 0 deployment
The Page Previews (aka Hovercards) [4] feature is now live on the following wikipedias: Russian, Italian, Greek, Catalan. We will continue with rollouts on Hungarian and Hebrew wikipedias as a conclusion of stage 0. Currently, we are in the process of consulting communities about the next stage of rollouts.
- PageImages restricted to the lead section [5]
Before, PageImages were being drawn from the first instance of an image within the page. This led to a majority of the images set from outside of the lead section to be out of context or to not properly represent the subject of the article. With this change, the PageImage for an article will be drawn from the lead section and infobox only, to ensure that the most accurate image is always used.
Thank you and let us know if there’s any questions, concerns, or any other feedback!
- Olga
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Improve_site_branding
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Next_steps#Awareness
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikimedia_Foundation_...
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152115
Awesome! I'm so excited to see that header change come through. It was really strange (and kind of funny) in the field to see people browsing Wikipedia and thinking they were still on Google - glad to see us working to change that so that people know what we're about.
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Olga Vasileva ovasileva@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all, over the past few weeks, the reading web team has made some releases and improvements we would like to share:
- New Header for the Mobile Web [1]
We have just released a new header on the mobile web! Our goal is to raise awareness among readers that the content we are providing is coming from Wikipedia or related projects using clear branding. Low brand awareness was one of the key findings during the research performed by the New Readers team [2]. According to their findings, user were often not aware that they were reading Wikipedia, and sometimes confused it for a search engine or social media platform [3]. An increase in brand awareness could therefore lead to increased readership and retention.
- Page Previews Stage 0 deployment
The Page Previews (aka Hovercards) [4] feature is now live on the following wikipedias: Russian, Italian, Greek, Catalan. We will continue with rollouts on Hungarian and Hebrew wikipedias as a conclusion of stage 0. Currently, we are in the process of consulting communities about the next stage of rollouts.
- PageImages restricted to the lead section [5]
Before, PageImages were being drawn from the first instance of an image within the page. This led to a majority of the images set from outside of the lead section to be out of context or to not properly represent the subject of the article. With this change, the PageImage for an article will be drawn from the lead section and infobox only, to ensure that the most accurate image is always used.
Thank you and let us know if there’s any questions, concerns, or any other feedback!
- Olga
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Improve_site_branding
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Next_steps#Awareness
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File% 3AWikimedia_Foundation_and_Reboot_New_Readers_Research_-_ Nigeria_%26_India_Highlights_-_July_2016.pdf&page=73
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152115
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Hi Olga,
2017-04-05 15:07 GMT+03:00 Olga Vasileva ovasileva@wikimedia.org:
- PageImages restricted to the lead section [5]
This sounds like a setback for tools and robots that use this feature to easily retrieve images associated with articles (the hard way being parsing the source), although based on the examples from the bug I agree that many of them where not really relevant. What are the next steps to further improve PageImages? Any plans to implement T95026 and/or T91683 in the near future?
Strainu
Hi - really sorry for the super late reply. The next step would be allowing editors the ability to select the PageImage (T91683 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91683). We are not working on this immediately, but plan on beginning the work within the next few months. We hadn't yet considered T95026 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95026 but reading over it, it seems like something we might try to implement along with the previous one.
Hope that helps!
- Olga https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95026 On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:36 AM Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Olga,
2017-04-05 15:07 GMT+03:00 Olga Vasileva ovasileva@wikimedia.org:
- PageImages restricted to the lead section [5]
This sounds like a setback for tools and robots that use this feature to easily retrieve images associated with articles (the hard way being parsing the source), although based on the examples from the bug I agree that many of them where not really relevant. What are the next steps to further improve PageImages? Any plans to implement T95026 and/or T91683 in the near future?
Strainu
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