Cool write up!

On the topic of "wiki" queries (adding "wiki" or "wikipedia" to a query to
get more results from Wikipedia), I saw just under 3% of queries
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Why_People_Use_Search_Engines#Wiki_terms>
from Google (among those with recoverable query strings) had some wiki
terms in them. That's queries, not users, so I'm guessing a lot of people
do it (I do it!).

*Daisy,* the next to last slide, "Research Recoomendations", is chopped off
on the right side, and the last line of each bullet seems to be in a
smaller font.

Good stuff!
—Trey


Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We recently wrapped up survey participant sessions that were centered
> around the Wikipedia.org portal: how did they get there, what did they do
> when they arrived, do they know that the footer (with sister project
> descriptive text) exists, new language by article count dropdown proposal
> and search satisfaction.
>
> We were able to chat with these participants because they took one of our
> surveys (in May
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.pdf>
> and June <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136874#2418095> 2016) that
> we ran on the portal page; which was run to attempt to determine why and
> how users arrived at Wikipedia.org.
>
> Daisy Chen conducted the sessions, sifted and compiled the data and it's
> written up here
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discovery_-_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Study_Findings_-_July_2016.pdf>.
> Daisy will also present the findings and conclusions during July's Research
> Showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>
> next week. This research is also instrumental to the new page layout
> discussion we have ongoing here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout>.
>
> If there are any questions, please feel free to ping Daisy or myself on
> the research and/or the Wikipedia portal and search work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Deb
>
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> Product Manager, Discovery
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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