Page Previews/GreekCatalanTest

A feature test on was implemented for a period of 4 months on Greek and Catalan Wikipedias. A number of issues and bugs were reported and user satisfaction was recorded using a survey. Users had generally favorable feedback, with the majority of users finding hovercards useful, easy to use, and enjoyable to use.

Qualtrics Survey Results
In April of 2015, hovercards were rolled out to all users on Catalan and Greek Wikipedias. They also continued to be a beta feature on english and other wikipedias. During this time, a survey was shown to all hovercards users using a banner recruitment. There were over 1,700 responses, heavily dominated by non-logged in users on Catalan and Greek and logged in users (probably mostly editors) on English. Below are the aggregated results of the Greek and Catalan tests, as well as the community responses from beta testers on the English Wikipedia.

Questions 2-6 are the qualitative text answers to whatever the user chose for open feedback. We cannot share these answers on wiki, as they have not been vetted to remove potentially personally identifiable information.

Here are some random, contiguous sample rows from those answers:
 * positive feedback:
 * bug:
 * other problem:


 * suggestion for improvement:

Known & documented issues:

 * Cutting sentences randomly - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67845
 * Info in parenthesis ignored - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91344
 * Period problem with TextExtracts - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094
 * Hovercards not going away - fixed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143051

Unknown and need more information:

 * Text alignment issue in certain scripts - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139297
 * Disambiguation text showing in some cases - this is when a page is just using plain indented/italic text instead of a template (e.g.). Or, if the hatnote template doesn't include  - fixed
 * Half sentences are annoying, people want more text - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67845
 * People are unhappy with animation speed, some want it faster, some slower (replicating the existing Reference Tooltips options, would be best) - implemented as setting of hovercards, more info here Extension:Popups

Known and hard to solve for

 * Issues with PageImages (…) - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132605
 * Map shown without dot - fixed
 * Reference hovercards (user and special pages too) (Prateek and Bene* are working on a restructure) - for future implementation
 * Sub-section links (TextExtracts) - for future implementation
 * Make it work with Wikidata - tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69434