Talk pages project/Usability/ja

このページでは の業務内容を紹介します. トークページが皆さんにとって直感的にわかり使いやすくなるよう、オンウィキで皆さんの意思疎通が円滑になるよう目指します.

さて、このイニシアティブはという大規模な構想の一環です. ウィキペディアのすべての寄稿者がもっと簡便に意思疎通できるよう目指します. 当チームはこれまでを実施、個別のコミュニティの既存の規約を重んじて微調整しながら、トークページの見た目を段階的に進化させる所存です. この取り組みでは、現在の見た目と使いこごちへの下位互換性を保証します （旧版へ戻したい利用者に対応）. To participate in and follow this project's development, we recommend adding this page to your watchlist. We will use this page to:


 * 設計の改訂箇所を共有してフィードバックをお願い
 * 展開プランを発表
 * 機能の利用実態調査のデータを共有

A/B Test

On 8 May, the A/B test we mentioned in April started at the following Wikipedias:


 * Azerbaijani (azwiki), Bengali (bnwiki), Dutch (nlwiki), German (dewiki), Hebrew (hewiki), Hindi (hiwiki), Indonesian (idwiki), Korean (kowiki), Persian (fawiki), Portuguese (ptwiki), Romanian (rowiki), Thai (thwiki), Turkish (trwiki), Ukrainian (ukwiki), and Vietnamese (viwiki).

On 1 June, we confirmed sufficient data had been gathered to begin an analysis to assess the impact of the suite of changes the Usability portion of the broader Talk Pages Project. In July, we expect results to be ready for the Editing Team to share and for us to collectively make sense of.

The Editing Team is planning an A/B test for Usability features on the desktop site. See T302358 and Talk pages project/Usability/Analysis.

Today, the suite of Usability Improvements became available to everyone (logged in and out) by default at the Czech and Hungarian Wikipedias who are accessing talk pages with the Vector (2022) skin enabled.

All Usability features are available to all editors using the mobile site.

Seeking Design Feedback There is a prototype ready that we would value feedback on: https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/e22ef06cf7/wiki/Talk:DiscussionTools

The prototype introduces two changes:


 * 1) The "Add topic" button appears in a more prominent location on the page (above the existing page toolbar that contains actions links like "Page," "Discussion," "Read," "Edit," "Edit source," etc.)
 * 2) The "Add topic" button is styled differently

The two changes described above are an effort to make it easier for people to quickly locate and easily "reach for" the button for starting a new discussion topic.

→ Please visit the talk page to share what questions/ideas/concerns this change brings up for you.

Page Frame Features Available at Most Wikis

Next week, people accessing all Wikimedia wikis (except en.wiki) on desktop who have the  setting enabled within Special:Preferences, will see new information on talk pages about the level of activity happening within them.

See the 11 January update for details about the specific changes you can expect.

Page Frame Features Available at Partner Wikis

On Tuesday, 17 January, people accessing the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias on desktop who have the   setting enabled within Special:Preferences, will see the following new features on talk pages:


 * 1) A visual space between the "namespace" and "page" name portion of a talk page's title
 * 2) An indicator that describes, and links to, the latest comment published on a given talk page
 * 3) Information within the table of contents about the number of comments within each section

Usability Improvements in All Talk Namespaces

Next week, people at all Wikipedias who have the  setting enabled within Special:Preferences, will see Usability Improvements when they visit any page within a talk/odd-numbered namespace (e.g. Wikipedia talk, File talk, MediaWiki talk, etc.).

The arrow is being added to improve.

The default on the desktop site does not include an arrow. The configuration is set globally per language, not per wiki. Follow the process at Requesting wiki configuration changes if you believe your language should include the arrow.



アフォーダンス（デスクトップ版）を実現

9月27日にチェコ語版、ハンガリー語版のウィキペディアではベータ版議論ツール（DiscussionTools）の機能を更新、ベータ版を有効にした利用者向けに、デスクトップ版トークページで新しい見た目の返信ボタンを展開しました.

翌日（世界標準時10月18日）にはこの新型返信ボタンがほとんどのウィキペディアで表示されます（訳注：日本語版ほかは未定）. 詳細は T320683 を参照してください.

ページの枠を実装（デスクトップ版）



本日付でウィキペディア英語版と同ドイツ語版の利用者で、ベータ版議論ツール（DiscussionTools）を有効にした人に見出しのコンテナを展開しました（デスクトップ版）. この実装の詳細はT315625をご参照ください.

計画ではこの先の3から5週間で以下を進める予定です.


 * 1) ウィキペディア日本語版でベータ版議論ツールを有効にしたボランティアの皆さんに、見出しコンテナを展開する予定です（デスクトップ版）.  T318127 を参照してください.
 * 2) Offer a new appearance for the   links that appear on desktop talk pages at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias. T315626 を参照してください.

Topic Container (desktop) Deployment

On Tuesday, 30 August, Topic Containers became available on desktop as a Beta Feature at all Wikimedia wikis except for English, German, and Japanese Wikipedias.

Reason being, we are running a central notice campaign at these three wikis to gather feedback about suite of usability improvements. Once these campaigns have finished running and we have understood and responded to the feedback, we will offer desktop Topic Containers as a beta feature at these three Wikipedias.

Design of a new "Add topic" button are ready for you all to review.



This change is designed to make it easier for people to notice and access the "Add Topic" button on desktop talk pages where people do not have access to the.

Please visit the talk page to share feedback about the designs.

The design you see here are inspired by ideas projects like cs.wiki, en.wiki, fi.wiki, and fr.wiki have implemented to make it easier for people to identify and access the "Add topic" / "New section" link, especially on longer pages. See more in T267444.

Making Topic Containers (desktop) available on more wikis

Yesterday (17 August), Topic Containers became available as a Beta Feature on desktop at all Wikimedia wikis except de.wiki, en.wiki, and ja.wiki.

In the coming weeks, following additional prototype testing, we will offer Topic Containers on desktop at the remaining three wikis mentioned above.

Second deployment

The initial desktop Topic Container deployment seems to have gone well. Accordingly, we are planning to make Topic Containers on desktop available as a Beta Feature at all Wikimedia wikis except de.wiki, en.wiki, and ja.wiki before August is over.

If/when this timing changes we will share an update here.

First deployment

On Wednesday, 20 July, Topic Containers (the new talk page section heading design) became available as a Beta Feature at the first three Wikipedias: Arabic (ar.wiki), Czech (cs.wiki), and Hungarian (hu.wiki).

Over the next few weeks, we will offer Topic Containers as a beta feature at all Wikimedia wikis. This timing assumes we do not discover any significant issues.

In the meantime, if you would like to see what a live talk page looks like with Topic Containers enabled, try visiting hu:User talk:Tacsipacsi (make sure the "Discussion tools" feature is enabled in Beta Features).

Design updates



Over the past couple of months, people have shared feedback about the initial designs we published in May. This feedback has been helpful in leading us to see the need for making a series of adjustments to the design. You can the latest designs in the screenshots that accompany this update.

Some of the changes we have made in response to the feedback you all have shared include:


 * Removing the arrow that previously appeared before each "Reply" link
 * Adding the ability for people to click the "Latest comment" indicator and be taken to the most recent comment in the discussion
 * Removing the icons that previously accompanied the metadata that is shown beneath each talk page section heading

First deployment

Before July is over, we plan to offer the new talk page section heading design as a Beta Feature at an initial set of wikis.



A prototype is ready for you all to try the talk page visual changes.

These changes are designed to make it easier for people to understand and use talk pages on desktop and mobile.

Please visit the talk page to find the information you will need to:


 * Try the prototype
 * Share feedback about the prototype



試作版に変更点を盛り込み、利用者がトークページの用途を識別して使い方をすぐに理解できるようにしました. デスクトップ版、モバイル版.

In the next few weeks, a prototype will be ready for you to try out these changes on a test wiki.

In the meantime, a question for you all: What ideas, questions, or concerns do these mockups bring to your mind?

Knowing this will help the team decide whether adjustments ought to be made to the designs prior to inviting you all, and other volunteers from across the Movement, to share feedback about them.

You can review these designs in more detail and share feedback about them on the talk page.

The Topic Containers prototype we mentioned on 11 March is ready for testing.

To try the desktop prototype, please visit Prototype/Topic Containers where you will find a link to the prototype as well as instructions for trying and sharing feedback about the prototype.

The team is continuing to iterate on the Topic Containers designs for both mobile and desktop talk pages.



In the next 1-2 weeks, we will have an initial prototype ready for you all to experiment with and share feedback about. We will also be starting a series of CentralNotice campaigns for volunteers to review and share feedback about the Topic Container prototype which will include:


 * New styling for  section headings
 * New metadata about talk page discussions. This will include: the number of people who have commented in a discussion, the last time a new comment was published in the discussion, and the total number of people who have participated in the discussion to-date.



Seeking Feedback: Initial "Topic Container" Design Concepts

An initial set of design concepts for Topic Containers is ready for you all to review (see screenshot).

These Topic Containers are an effort to evolve the way talk page section headings appear, and introduce new information within them, to help:


 * 1) Junior Contributors easily recognize talk pages as containing discussions
 * 2) Senior Contributors assess the level of activity on talk pages

📣 We would value you reviewing the design concepts and sharing what you think of them on the talk page, so the team can know what changes to explore in the next set of designs we will share in January (2022).

Design work beginning

Design work on Topic Containers – the first intervention we are working on as part of this phase of the Talk Pages Project – is underway.

In the coming weeks, you can expect to see some preliminary sketches posted here for you all to review and for us to talk about together.

In the meantime, if any questions are on your mind about this part of the project, please post them to the talk page.

We need your help

''' When looking at a talk page, what do you think would make it easier for you to know what conversations are worth reading? ' Please share what you think on the talk page here.''

The thoughts you all share will inform the design of the "topic containers" we will start designing soon. These "topic containers" are intended to help people more easily and quickly recognize talk pages as containing conversations and get a sense for the level of activity happening with them.

Strategy

In June, we published the design strategy and set of interventions we are planning to work on as part of the larger effort to help people, across experience levels, identify and understand the conversations happening on talk pages. You can read more about this strategy here.

The team has compiled the research that is informing the approach we will take to help Junior Contributors quickly recognize talk pages as spaces to communicate with other volunteers and locate the tools available to do so and help Senior Contributors can quickly evaluate the level of activity happening on talk pages. More information about this can be found in the Objectives and Background sections below.

In the coming weeks, you can expect this page to be updated with the particular interventions we are planning to work on as part of this phase of the project. Before then, you can review how we are planning and organizing this work in Phabricator here.

The team is planning to begin work on the incremental enhancements needed help people instinctively recognize and use talk pages as spaces to communicate with people on-wiki will begin in earnest in ~3 months.

In the meantime, we will be expanding this this page to include the research that is motivating this work and the impact it is intended to have.

目的
ウィキテキスト形式のトークページをもっと読み取りやすくする作業により、以下の成果を目指します:


 * 1) 編集初学者（以下ジュニア編集者）にも、他のボランティアと意見を交換したり質問する貴重な空間として、ウィキ文形式のトークページを発見してもらう必要があります.
 * 2) その点、経験のある編集者（以下シニア編集者）に当てはめると、会話の大要をすばやく把握する簡便な方法が必要です.

Analysis 2: Impact
From 8 May 2023 through 28 May 2023, the Editing Team ran an A/B test to evaluate the impact of the suite of talk page design changes on desktop talk pages. Analysis of this data is underway in T302358.

You can learn about how this A/B test was designed and what it was intended to measure here: Talk pages project/Usability/Analysis.

Analysis 1: Engagement
To learn whether the suite of desktop talk page design changes were negatively impacting peoples' experiences using Wikipedia talk pages, we conducted an initial analysis at the three Wikipedias where these features were first made available by default: ar.wiki, cs.wiki, and hu.wiki.

This analysis was meant to help us answer the following question:

Are the set of Usability Improvements negatively impacting other peoples' experiences using Wikipedia talk pages?

The answer to this question was a key factor in helping the team decide whether these new features were fit to be deployed more widely and evaluated through an A/B test.

Timing

This analysis was completed on 12 April 2023 and analyzed engagement data at ar.wiki, cs.wiki, and hu.wiki during the following time periods:


 * cs.wiki and hu.wiki: 28 February 2023 - 29 March 2023
 * ar.wiki: 05 March 2023 - 3 April 2023

Findings


 * Desktop talk page revert rate by experience level (ar, cs, hu), spring 2023.pngRevert rate
 * Overall: We did not observe any changes in the overall talk page edit revert rate pre- and post-deployment across the three participating wikis.
 * Interface: when we analyzed the revert rate by interface, we observed a -17% percent decrease in the revert rate of talk page edits made with visual editor and a -4% decrease in the revert rate of edits made with wikitext.
 * Experience level: when we analyzed the revert rate by experience level, we observed a -18% decrease in the revert rate of desktop talk page edits by Junior Contributors (under 100 edits) following the deployment of the feature; compared to 4.5% increase (+0.1 percentage points) for Senior editors (over 100 edits).
 * [[File:Desktop talk page edit completion rates by experience level (ar, cs, and hu) spring 2023.png|alt=A bar chart showing desktop talk page edit completion rates by experience level at ar.wiki, cs.wiki, and hu.wiki during February and March, 2023.|thumb|294x294px|Desktop talk page edit completion rates by experience level at ar.wiki, cs.wiki, and hu.wiki during February and March, 2023.]]Edit completion rate
 * Overall: we observed a -4.8 percent decrease in edit completion rate and there was no sudden increase or decreases in daily completion rates following deployment of the feature.
 * Experience level: we observed was a 10.2% increase in talk page edit completion rate for Junior editors and a slight decrease (-1.3%) in edit completion rate for senior editors.
 * Block rate
 * Overall: We did not observe any significant changes in block rate.
 * A total of 4 talk editors across all three wikipedias were issued a sitewide block two weeks post-deployment, compared to 3 talk page editors two weeks pre-deployment.
 * Opt-out rate
 * Overall: a total of 48 users across all three wikis turned the feature off.
 * Activity level: of the total amount of people who made a talk page edit attempt following the deployment of the usability improvements (2,122 people), 15 people (or 0.71%) disabled the features at some point afterwards.

Full Report

Usability Improvements Engagement Analysis



戦略とアプローチ


戦略：「読みやすさを目指してゆっくり開発」
We will make incremental and optional changes* to elevate the core talk page components (e.g. topic headings and conversation metadata) and calls to action (e.g. replying to a comment, starting a new discussion, subscribing to a topic, etc.). We will seek changes improve peoples' ability to:


 * Recognize talk pages as space to communicate with other people
 * Identify and understand the conversations happening on talk pages
 * Know what to do to engage with talk pages

*We are using "optional changes" in this context to mean that new functionality will be developed in ways that ensure people retain the flexibility to turn it off.

アプローチ
上記の戦略を実現するため3期に分けており、以下に概要を示します.

It is important that volunteers' needs and expectations are heard and incorporated into the design process. To do this, we will publicize the questions and decisions that guide the implementation of each of the phases below and make sure this information is easy to engage with.



第1期：見出しのコンテナ（トピックを明示）


First, we will evolve how talk page section headings (read: ) are visually represented and introduce discussion-specific metadata within these headings.

"Discussion-specific metadata" in this context refers to information like: the last time the conversation was edited, the number of comments in the conversation, the number of unique people who have participated in the conversation, etc.

''詳細情報はT269950を参照. ''



第2期：アフォーダンス
次に特定の投稿に返信したり、新しい主題を始めるときの方法を見つけたりアクセスする簡便さについてアフォーダンスを調べます.

''詳細情報はT267444およびT255560を参照. ''



第3期：コンテキストの枠組み
この締めくくりの期間に、ページ全体のレベルで新しい視覚的要素を追加する予定です. トークページに来た人がここはトークページだ、編集者同士の意思疎通をする場所だとすぐに伝わり、何が進行しているのか見極めができるようにします.

''詳細情報はT269963を参照. ''

This set of changes will include:


 * A visual space between the "namespace" and "page" name portion of a talk page's title
 * An indicator that describes, and links to, the latest comment published on a given talk page
 * An "Add topic" button that will appear in in the sticky header Vector (2022) introduces (desktop only)
 * Information within the new table of contents Vector (2022) introduces about the number of comments within a section

背景
The is committed to evolving wikitext talk pages in a way that gives experienced contributors more leverage to coordinate their work and connect with other editors, while making the same communication and coordination practices and capabilities legible and intuitive for newer contributors.

For these wikitext talk pages to be valuable, Junior Contributors need to intuitively recognize them as spaces to communicate with other volunteers and Senior Contributors need to be able to spend minimal effort understanding the conversations happening on a given page.

The trouble is, volunteers across experience levels report the current presentation of wikitext talk pages can make recognizing talk pages, understanding the conversations happening within them, and identifying what they need to click/tap to participate in these conversations unnecessarily difficult.

"Talk pages and their current configuration proved confusing...For [some] participants, it took more than 4-5 minutes to understand the Talk page itself which was “disorganised” making it “difficult to take part in the discussion.”"

"I don't know what it means really to start a new discussion. Because none of this looks like a discussion."

"I often have trouble visually parsing long discussions on the WP:Help desk, for example. Sometimes, a discussion will involve three or more people and/or have five or more posts. Spacing between posts is not standardized, nor are signatures, nor is indentation, nor is the length of posts. Sometimes, people become confused and respond as if one person is the author of what another user has written."

"I felt I had to scan the page a lot for what i needed, as different elements didn't really stand out. It wasn't really obvious that i was looking at a message from someone..."

By making the components that comprise talk pages conversations (e.g. conversation topics, conversation boundaries, comments, etc.) and the tools necessary for participating in them easier for people to parse, we are striving to:


 * 1) Increase the likelihood Junior Contributors quickly recognize talk pages as spaces to communicate with other volunteers and locate the tools available to do so and
 * 2) Increase the likelihood Senior Contributors can quickly evaluate the level of activity happening on talk pages.

経緯
Many projects, conversations and research have, and are, working to improve contributors' experiences with talk pages. This project is better off for their existence. Some of the projects the team continues to learn from are listed on the main project page and below. If there is a project you think we should be aware of, please boldly add it here.


 * Template_talk:Fig/sandbox（英語版ウィキバーシティ）
 * Custom section calls to action at it.wiki: Wikipedia:Bar/2021 04 14
 * People using custom CSS change how talk pages appear: https://global-search.toolforge.org/?namespaces=2%2C4...
 * Convenient Discussions
 * reply-link
 * Flow satisfaction survey
 * Moderated Testing, November 2014: talk pages and Flow
 * Talk pages consultation

用語集
The Talk pages project glossary is intended to help us all communicate about talk pages more effectively by making sure we have a shared understanding about the words we use in our discussions and documentation throughout the project.