Sounds good! Will any of the improvements on desktop search relate to improved media search for images that are on Commons, whether by searching Commons directly or through cross-wiki search?
Pine On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Katie Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > We’re pleased to announce that Jan Drewniak, a Discovery Department User > Experience Engineer, will be shifting to working on improving the user > interface and experience of search on desktop. He has been working > primarily on the wikipedia.org portal site. > > What does this mean for the future of wikipedia.org? > > Let’s first review what we’ve done so far, just in this quarter (July - > August 2016): Jan worked on internationalization and localization of the > portal so that it could be translated easily (including the sister project > descriptive texts via translatewiki <https://translatewiki.net/>), > pushing minor bug fixes and enhancements as well as updating the articles > by language statistics. In addition, Jan also helped design and code the > new portal page layout (based on several prior successful A/B tests and > community input) to production. > > Jan will continue to maintain the portal by fixing bugs, adding minor > enhancements and performing regular statistics updates; which is expected > to take (on average) a couple of hours a week. Otherwise, we are not > planning to do any significant new work on the portal for the next couple > of quarters. As per the annual plan > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Wikipedia.org_portal>, > the Discovery Portal Team committed to continue to improve the > wikipedia.org page. We plan to resume that work in late Q3 and Q4 (March > - July 2017). > > What interface improvements will be made to search on desktop? > > There’s been a lot of advances in search interfaces in Wikimedia in the > last few years. For example, the mobile apps, mobile web, wikipedia.org, > VisualEditor, and Flow now use imagery and short descriptions to enhance > findability. With Jan’s help, we expect to launch similar improvements on > desktop as a beta feature, to gather feedback and collect data. Jan will > also be working on tidying up the interface of our recent launch of search > language detection > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/27/wikipedia-language-search/> to > make it more clear to searchers what’s happening. > > > Thank you! If you have any questions, please let us know. > > Katie Horn, Director, Discovery > Dan Garry, Lead Product Manager, Discovery > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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