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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
