Hello Greg + all! Gorgeous, text- & image-rich, substantive, structural, inspiring, multilingual. 11/10. German? -SJ
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:32 PM Gregory Varnum <gvar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello! > > Today, we are thrilled to share an updated visual design style on the > Wikimedia Foundation website (wikimediafoundation.org)! > > This updated design was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Product > design team. We worked on feedback from Meta-Wiki, emails, Phabricator, and > hundreds of conversations paired with user testing with people in the > target audiences for the website. We are incredibly appreciative of the > great care that team has taken in making strategic, data-led design > decisions and really helping us amplify the website's ability to convey our > story to people generally unfamiliar with Wikimedia. > > We have also expanded on the information about the website on its Meta-Wiki > page,[1] and updated the public mirror of the code base to reflect the > technical changes made to the site for this updated design.[2] > > Thank you to the now hundreds of people that have been involved in helping > us build a website for the Foundation which we can be proud of! > -greg & the Wikimedia Foundation Communication team > > = A bit more about the site = > > == How is the site doing? == > > Since the site's soft launch in July 2018, traffic has continued to > increase. There has also been a significant increase in donations collected > via this website. Two key audiences, potential staff and partners, have > shared positive feedback on the site’s content and organization, enabling > them to find jobs and contact key teams respectively. Additionally, user > testing has shown a positive response to the content and overall > architecture of the site. > > == What brought us here == > > The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has been collecting > feedback on the Foundation's website since late 2016 and beginning in > early 2017 has been working on addressing the backlog of issues related to > the website. The original Foundation site, launched in 2004, did not have a > clear audience, and as a result was not effectively serving any of the > hundreds of uses people saw for it. Maintaining the site's content beyond > English had become a growing problem - leaving visitors with different > information, depending on which language they were using, on basic details > like our address and executive staff. Additionally, the site had over > 17,000 pages - a vast majority of which were either out of date or no > longer in use. > > In 2017-18, the Communications department ran a "Discovery" process to help > inform our decision making. This process included reviews of methods used > by other organizations, assessment of our current communication channels, > collecting feedback at Wikimania, and interviews with dozens of volunteers, > donors, contractors, and staff. The resulting report[3] and recommendations > helped identify the objectives and audiences of the website,[1] and were > utilized throughout the initial design and development of the new website. > > Shortly after the soft launch, the department began working with the > Product department's design team to perform user testing, process feedback > collected in the weeks following the soft launch, and collect additional > feedback to help us make informed decisions. They helped us collect and > process feedback from hundreds of individuals within and outside of the > movement. > > Based on feedback, they conducted user testing and developed the updated > design we deployed this morning. We will continue to use a data and > feedback informed decision making in managing the site. Given the external > audience nature of the site, it has consistently proven important to take > the time to collect feedback and data from a wide variety of sources - > including volunteers, press, donors, partner organizations, and readers of > the projects. > > == What comes next == > > More languages! The Communications department will continue to work on > content development and expanding translations to additional languages. If > you are interested in our plans for translations, please check out the > information shared recently about the Organization communications > translators group.[5] > > == Providing feedback == > > The Communications department will continue to monitor the talk page for > the Foundation's website on Meta-Wiki.[6] Additionally, I will be attending > Wikimania in Stockholm and available to chat with folks.[7] > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_website > [2] https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimediafoundation-org > [3] > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1b/Wikimedia_Foundation_website_-_2017-2018_update_-_Discovery_brief.pdf > [5] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Organization_communications_translators_group > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_website > [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimania_2019 > > -- > > Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him) > > Communications Strategist > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
