Of course, I meant right-justified... On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@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 <nkom...@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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> >
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