On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:39 AM Anne Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congrats portal team! Very cool to look at both the new and the old side by > side - the visual design is much cleaner, but more than that the > improvements to clarifying flows for the user is remarkable. > > I particularly like the language detection from the user's browser > settings. That should help people get what they're looking for so much more > easily, while still giving them access to other languages if they'd like to > browse that way. > Big +1. Doing automatic language detection is a big step forward. Awesome work! > Congrats again :) > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Deborah Tankersley < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Everyone who uses the wikipedia.org <https://www.wikipedia.org/> [1] > > portal is familar with the look of the page: a beautiful puzzle globe > > encirled by the top ten viewed languages; a long list with Wikipedias in > > hundreds of languages that can all be read and explored; the search box > > that can make queries in nearly any language; and a compilation of > related > > Wikimedia projects. > > > > > > Over the last eight months, the Wikimedia Foundation's Portal team > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> [2], part of the > Discovery > > department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> [3], has > > been busy improving the discoverability of information within the portal > to > > make it more contemporary and easier to use. > > > > To start, we’ve updated the search box. When you are entering a query, > you > > will now see images and metadata that correspond to your search > > < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia,org-searchbox_highlight-Aug2016_screenshot.png > > > > [4], and you're also free change the search language without leaving the > > page. > > > > We’ve also optimized the portal site, making it load faster by utilizing > > smaller sized images and streamlining the page code. > > > > A fairly inconspicuous change to the page will immediately detect your > > browser’s preferred (or default) language and rearrange the top ten links > > to display those languages first, along with the remaining top ten viewed > > wiki’s by language, around the globe. > > > > In this example > > < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikipedia.org-globe-sorted-languages_screenshot.png > > > > [5], The Free Encyclopedia is displayed in Portuguese, since it is the > > browser’s first preferred language and English is the second. > > > > Here is a helpful site > > <https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities> [6] that > > explains how to change your preferred language on various browsers. > > > > We’ve also added sister project descriptions > > < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-sister-projects-text_screenshot.png > > > > [7], located in the page’s footer, which will hopefully spark curiosity > > as to what a person might find when they visit those individual projects. > > > > The look and feel of the long list of every available language wiki > > (sorted by article count) has been modernized and placed inside an > > elegant drop down > > < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-language-dropdown_screenshot.png > > > > [8]. This new feature makes finding your language wiki a bit easier on > > the eyes as well as providing easy access on any device. > > > > We hope you enjoy using the new portal page! You can view a short video > > < > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Wikipedia.org-new-layout_movie-Aug2016.ogg > > > > [9] that shows some of these new features. > > > > *And, if you don’t quite remember what the old Wikipedia portal site > > looked like before we made any changes, here’s a reminder > > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-01Jan2016.png> * > > [10]. > > > > Cheers from the Discovery Portal Team! > > > > [1] https://www.wikipedia.org/ > > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal > > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery > > [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia,org-search > > box_highlight-Aug2016_screenshot.png > > [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikipedia.org-glob > > e-sorted-languages_screenshot.png > > [6] https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities > > [7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-sister > > -projects-text_screenshot.png > > [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-langua > > ge-dropdown_screenshot.png > > [9] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Wikipedi > > a.org-new-layout_movie-Aug2016.ogg > > [10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-01Jan2016.png > > > > > > -- > > Deb Tankersley > > Product Manager, Discovery > > IRC: debt > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > > > > > > -- > *Anne Gomez* // Reading Product Manager, New Readers > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. 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