Hello, The Wikimedia Foundation Discovery Portal team [1] has recently completed tests to see if a new Wikipedia.org [3] page design would be easier to navigate by adding a dropdown that contained all the languages by article count list.
The test results [4] did indeed find that visitors were more likely to click through to a link and there was a lower amount of 'non-action' on the page, because of the new design. We also tested the page with many Wikipedia users and received comments that the new page design was aesthetically pleasing and less cluttered. Based on this information, we would like to promote this into production on the Wikipedia.org portal, but we want to ask the community for feedback and/or suggestions [5]. Cheers from the Discovery Portal team! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131526 [3] https://www.wikipedia.org [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_AB_Test_of_Collapsing_links_to_Wikipedia_in_other_languages.pdf [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
