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_Collaps…
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout
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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
IRC: debt
Wikimedia Foundation