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Peningkatan desktop. Sebuah perubahan baru!


Dalam beberapa pekan ke depan, tim Web Wikimedia Foundation akan memindahkan semua pranala di menu pengguna (nama pengguna,, , , , , ) ke dalam sebuah menu dropdown. Di menu yang baru, pranalanya akan berpasangan dengan ikon.

Perubahan ini akan membuat cara menemukan dan memahami pranala pengguna menjadi lebih intuitif Perubahan ini juga merupakan langkah menuju kop halaman yang menempel.

Pada saat ini, pranala pengguna tidak ditampilkan secara kohesif sebagai suatu satuan. Mereka menyebabkan kebingungan pada pendatang baru yang tidak tahu pranala tersebut terkait dengan apa. According to our findings, it has been unclear that these are personal rather than site-wide tools. Icons will make it even easier to understand the links.
 * Mengapa kami mengubah ini

In addition to that, currently, the links take a lot of space on the screen. Together with the sidebar, these contribute to a feeling of a cluttered interface.

We are beginning to work on a sticky header. It will be available at the top of the screen all the time. Without a dropdown menu for the user links, the sticky header would be far less useful.

As always, we will verify if the change improves the usability. This time, we will not perform any A/B tests. Instead, we will compare the usage of the links for the two weeks before and two weeks after the change.
 * How will we verify the improvement

Some gadgets and user scripts might need to be updated or might become redundant or obsolete. We provide support for users who would like to maintain the compatibility.
 * Gadgets' compatibility


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How to connect pages with Wikidata items in the new Vector
In the week of August 2nd, the link for "/" will be restored to the sidebar. It will appear in the section as "/".

When building the language button, we did not include the "/" link. This was because this functionality is a part of improved language selector. That selector is currently being built by another team of the Wikimedia Foundation. As a result, the link was missing. We have received requests to restore it.

We explored the best way to do it as a temporary solution. We decided to add it into the sidebar in the section. You can see the location on the screenshot.

When the improved language selector is deployed, the "/" link will be back together with the language links in the button.