[WikiEN-l] Updated new search interface on the prototype

[Carcharoth]

Of course, I meant right-justified...

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I like the changes from what I can see so far. Some of the stuff I was
> saying earlier had gone is now back, so it looks like it was a
> temporary thing while the changes were made. I like the way the text
> now adjusts to being left-justified so you can see the whole text. I
> now need to try typing the title of the longest article (which was
> mentioned somewhere recently) to see if that will break the new gizmo.
> :-)
>
> Carcharoth
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Naoko Komura <nkomura at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Just a quick update:
>>
>> Updated search interface was rolled-out to English Wikipedia earlier
>> today. Thank you all for your quick feedback.
>>
>> Regarding the search location, we understand the inconvenience and the
>> sense of disorientation when the frequently used tool is moved around.
>> However, we found from the usability study that the interaction to
>> search field/interface increased significantly when the search location
>> was moved to the top right. Improvement of the search experience was
>> also contributed by the improvement of the search engine (lucene), and
>> the clean-up of the search result page where the relevant results
>> received high-priority in ranking than missing pages or error messages.
>> We are monitoring the search query volume before and after the Vector
>> launch to compare if the search location change had an impact on the
>> search query volume. We hope to publish the stats next week.
>>
>> Regarding the default behavior whether it should go to an article or
>> full-text search when an enter key is hit, it is a bigger discussion.
>> Based on the feedback during early prototype phase, we dropped the idea
>> of reversing the search behavior to give full-text search instead of
>> article search, as article search and serving matched article is unique
>> to Wikimedia projects and it showcases how many topics we cover. The new
>> search interface gives user an option to chose from the article name
>> space or full-text search from the drop down menu.
>>
>> So, will you give another try?
>>
>> - Naoko
>>
>>
>> Naoko Komura wrote:
>>> Hi, everyone.
>>>
>>> We have received problem reports and feedback that search queries were
>>> truncated sometimes and the search suggestions were hard to read or
>>> chose due to the limited width. We apologize for introducing broken
>>> behaviors in using the search.  In order to mitigate spreading the
>>> problem, the new search function was disabled on May 15, and the search
>>> field was increased by fifty percent on May 18. We are aware that this
>>> temporary fix still does not accommodate the search for long article
>>> names.
>>>
>>> We have updated the new search interface to address the issues above and
>>> it is currently staged on the the prototype [1]. This update addresses
>>> the reported issues such as truncation of search queries [2] and the
>>> search suggestions are cut-off [3]. Prototypes in various languages are
>>> also available here[4].
>>>
>>> Please give it a spin and let us know your feedback. If the
>>> functionality is confirmed solid, we would like to re-enable the new
>>> search feature later this week.
>>>
>>> Thanks a bunch in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>> - Naoko
>>>
>>> User Experience Programs @ WMF
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org
>>>
>>> [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23498
>>>
>>> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23558
>>>
>>> [4] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prototype
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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