Congrats! So much study, work blog posts, design, and just thought and care went into this feature. A huge day for readers of desktop English and German. As the old saying goes: w00t w00t web team!
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > A huge congratulations on this awesome project! I know it's been a slog, > but hopefully worth the pain :) Nice work, everyone involved! > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Olga Vasileva <ovasil...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Page previews[1] have now been promoted out of beta to the remaining two > > Wikipedias - English and German, after a series of consultations on both > > wikis [2][3][4]. The feature is now on by default for all logged-out > users > > and off by default for all logged-in users (can be enabled using user > > preferences) on all Wikipedias. Further changes to configuration based > on > > our conversations with communities (such as turning the feature on for > new > > accounts) are coming up soon. > > > > Page previews allows readers to read an excerpt of a linked article’s > lead > > section without leaving the page they’re currently on, by hovering their > > mouse over the link. It has been activated by default for logged-out > users > > on all Wikipedias except German and English since August 2017, and > numerous > > further bug fixes and technical improvements have been implemented > since. A > > few weeks ago we published the results of our latest round of A/B testing > > [5]. We found that when the feature is enabled, readers will open pages > in > > their browser slightly less often (a decrease of around 3–5% in regular > > pageviews). But on the other hand, they interact with a lot more > different > > pages when one counts both the seen page previews and the regular > pageviews > > (an increase of around 20–22% in the number of distinct pages interacted > > with via either method). In addition, the option to deactivate the > feature > > was used very rarely (disable rates were around 0.01%). This leads us to > > believe that Page Previews is a welcomed feature that is helping readers > > learn more during their visits. > > > > More information about Page previews can be found on the project page on > > MediaWIki.org [1]. The team also recently wrote a few blog posts. One > about > > the work that went into the design of the feature [6] and another giving > an > > overview of the functionality [7]. > > > > If you see any issues, please report them in Phabricator. [8] > > > > Thanks, > > > > Olga > > > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews > > > > [2] > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( > > technical)/Archive_164#Improvements_to_Page_Previews > > > > > > [3] > > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_ > > Wikipedia/Archiv/2018/Woche_14#Seitenvorschaubilder_(Page_Previews) > > > > > > [4] > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( > > miscellaneous)#Next_Steps > > > > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests > > > > [6] > > https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all- > > knowledge/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wikipedia- > > and-what-could-be-done-with-them-in-the-future-7a5fa6b07b96 > > > > > > [7] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/17/wikipedia-page-previews/ > > > > [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/page-previews/ > > -- > > Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
