w00t. especially for Prateek who did much of the early work. https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Popups/commits/45046da7f1e435760868eaae99676411a964b2ff?after=45046da7f1e435760868eaae99676411a964b2ff+874
Glad ppl persevered. DJ On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:41 PM, Joshua Minor <[email protected]> wrote: > Congrats! So much study, work blog posts, design, and just thought and care > went into this feature. A huge day for readers of desktop English and > German. As the old saying goes: w00t w00t web team! > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A huge congratulations on this awesome project! I know it's been a slog, >> but hopefully worth the pain :) Nice work, everyone involved! >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Olga Vasileva <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Page previews[1] have now been promoted out of beta to the remaining two >> > Wikipedias - English and German, after a series of consultations on both >> > wikis [2][3][4]. The feature is now on by default for all logged-out >> users >> > and off by default for all logged-in users (can be enabled using user >> > preferences) on all Wikipedias. Further changes to configuration based >> on >> > our conversations with communities (such as turning the feature on for >> new >> > accounts) are coming up soon. >> > >> > Page previews allows readers to read an excerpt of a linked article’s >> lead >> > section without leaving the page they’re currently on, by hovering their >> > mouse over the link. It has been activated by default for logged-out >> users >> > on all Wikipedias except German and English since August 2017, and >> numerous >> > further bug fixes and technical improvements have been implemented >> since. A >> > few weeks ago we published the results of our latest round of A/B testing >> > [5]. We found that when the feature is enabled, readers will open pages >> in >> > their browser slightly less often (a decrease of around 3–5% in regular >> > pageviews). But on the other hand, they interact with a lot more >> different >> > pages when one counts both the seen page previews and the regular >> pageviews >> > (an increase of around 20–22% in the number of distinct pages interacted >> > with via either method). In addition, the option to deactivate the >> feature >> > was used very rarely (disable rates were around 0.01%). This leads us to >> > believe that Page Previews is a welcomed feature that is helping readers >> > learn more during their visits. >> > >> > More information about Page previews can be found on the project page on >> > MediaWIki.org [1]. The team also recently wrote a few blog posts. One >> about >> > the work that went into the design of the feature [6] and another giving >> an >> > overview of the functionality [7]. >> > >> > If you see any issues, please report them in Phabricator. [8] >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Olga >> > >> > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews >> > >> > [2] >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( >> > technical)/Archive_164#Improvements_to_Page_Previews >> > >> > >> > [3] >> > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_ >> > Wikipedia/Archiv/2018/Woche_14#Seitenvorschaubilder_(Page_Previews) >> > >> > >> > [4] >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( >> > miscellaneous)#Next_Steps >> > >> > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests >> > >> > [6] >> > https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all- >> > knowledge/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wikipedia- >> > and-what-could-be-done-with-them-in-the-future-7a5fa6b07b96 >> > >> > >> > [7] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/17/wikipedia-page-previews/ >> > >> > [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/page-previews/ >> > -- >> > Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team >> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
