A cool thing we've found is that with the new additions we've made to the portal page, our google pagespeed insight tests are *much* better!
We've gone from a rating of *59* (mobile) and *76* (desktop) from the old version of the page to *91* (mobile) and *97* (desktop) with all the recent changes, yay! For fun, you can test the new page here <https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org&tab=desktop> and old page here <https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20160105135515%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F&tab=desktop> (old page is from 01 Jan 2016 via the way back machine <https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.wikipedia.org>). Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:27 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 >
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