What happened to the search box "Find Wikipedia in your language"?
2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankers...@wikimedia.org>: > Hello! > > I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org > <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is > more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in > the search results (see attached image). > > This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a > JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript enabled > browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, we also > ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet > Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when choosing > a language to search in. (Note: in older IE versions and JS disabled > browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will not > be displayed.) > > We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for > Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search box. > When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name will be > displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to > search in. For the more technical minded - I've attached a screenshot of > one of the ways we test our code, visually. > > We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions! > > On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, > > Deb > > -- > Deb Tankersley > Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
