Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Updates/ar



: Vector 2022 on more wikis and other updates
Over the past few months, the team has been preparing and changing the skin on the largest Wikipedias. Vector 2022 has become the default for all logged-in and logged-out users on Czech and English Wikipedias.

Since then, we have been discussing further improvements to the skin with the communities. As a result of these discussions as well as working on the previous plans, we've implemented many changes. These include:


 * Screenshot of the Vector-2022 skin's fullscreen toggle.png Persistence and availability of the full width toggle.  The full width toggle (available at the bottom of the page) is now persistent for both logged-out and logged-in users. This means that they see the width of their choice in spite of refreshing the page or opening a new one. The toggle is also available at narrower screen widths.
 * Moving article tools.jpg New page tools menu .
 * It allows for a separation between navigation related to the entire wiki and tools related to a specific page. In the first group there are, for example, Main page and Random page. In the second group there are, for example, What links here, Related changes, and Cite this page. The new menu also collects the page-specific tools in a single menu. Before, some of these links were the main menu (sidebar) or in the More menu (next to History). Our goal is to make it easier for new readers and editors to understand what these links do. Users also may pin and unpin the new menu. More information is available on the project page.
 * Making this change also has the benefit of showing the table of contents further up the page. Now, people need to scroll down to see the table of contents more rarely. This is one of the concerns we've been hearing over the last couple of days and hope this addresses it.
 *  Moving the log-in link outside of the drop-down menu for logged-out users.  This change makes it quicker to reach the log-in link, without requiring logged-out users to open the drop-down menu.
 *  Various small improvements to the Table of Contents (ToC) :
 * Increase the height of the ToC. This will allow the ToC to appear longer, and for more sections to be visible (T319315).
 * Where the page lands when clicking on a ToC link (T314419). We've heard that the ToC opens too close to the beginning of a section, without giving any space for the title and previous section. This change will increase this space, making it more comfortable when navigating.
 * Threshold for when a section is considered active, and marked in the ToC (T317661). We have also heard that a section is considered active only after the user has scrolled the previous section out of view. This had lead to some confusion on the active state. This change will allow sections to be shown as active earlier, when the majority of the section is displayed on the screen.
 * Navigating directly to sub-sections and expand the parent section if collapsed (T325086). Some of the feedback relates to the way that subsections appear on the page. We've heard that subsections should appear more consistently when needed. This change ensures that subsections are open when the user opens a direct link to that subsection.

 Upcoming changes and explorations  We are currently working on the following changes:
 *  Page layout.  We wanted to address one of the main concerns which has come out of the feedback around the skin so far. It's about the separation of content, and the brightness of the interface. We've developed a prototype we would like to get your feedback on. How should we measure the potential changes as compared to the current layout? We've posted more details and specific questions on the talk page. There are a few sections for discussions in different languages. Add your comments and questions there!
 *  Configuration of the table of contents.  We want to allow the ToC to be more configurable. Then, editors could determine when the ToC needs to be expanded or collapsed by default, and how many sections of the ToC can be shown by default. This will replicate the functionality of some of the "magic words" used in the ToC. It will be especially useful on pages like the Village Pump or coordination pages in the Wikipedia namespace (T317818).



: More deployments, full width toggle, page tools, and other updates
For the past few months, our focus has been on discussing deployments across various large wikis. This includes English Wikipedia. Its community has agreed to have Vector 2022 as the default under some conditions. We have addressed those. Currently, we are discussing next steps with the English Wikipedia community.

We have also been switching the skin on in the majority of Wikipedias. Currently, there are ~300 Wikipedias with the default of Vector 2022. Last week, the skin became the default on Arabic and Greek Wikipedias. We hope to get to all the Wikipedias by the end of February 2023.

As a result of the feedback we've received, we've made more changes to the skin itself:

Limited width Page tools Accessibility
 * We have built a preference for logged-in users which allows for the width to be set across pageviews and wikis. The preference is available in the appearance section of the preferences page (""). It may also be set as a global preference.
 * We have built a toggle for logged-in and logged-out users. The toggle is available on every page if the monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. Selecting the toggle increases the width of the page.
 * Moving the page tools to the right side of the page. This change is about grouping the page tools, and creating separation from the wiki-wide tools. This change also addresses the concern for the location of the table of contents. It makes the sidebar (left menu) shorter and thus shifts the table of contents further up in the page.
 * We hope to make the updated tools menu available by the end of December, 2022. If you want to follow the development by previewing how the feature works, add  to the URL (if you're using Vector 2022 already) or   (if you're not using Vector 2022).

We have completed our review of the accessibility of the new skin with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). No major concerns were found. We are tracking the suggestions for further improvements. We are also addressing potential future improvements. The details are documented in T323634.

Sticky header We have added an edit button to the sticky header to make access to editing the full page easier (without requiring scrolling to the top of the page). After testing across a number of wikis, we concluded the following:
 * People were more likely to complete the edits they start using the sticky header in comparison to the edits initiated using other edit buttons on the page.
 * The edits people started by clicking the edit button in the sticky header, and ultimately published, were reverted less often than those initiated using other edit buttons on the page.

: Plans and conversations about the deployment across the Wikimedia wikis

 *  High usage on the early adopter wikis.  According to the recent study by the Product Analytics team, 87% of contributors active on the early adopter wikis use Vector 2022. Here, active contributors mean users who made at least 5 edits between 1 November 2021 and 31 August 2022. Thank you!
 *  Visual refinements.  We have completed the list of visual refinements. We planned to complete these before the deployments across more wikis. These changes included work on link colors, icons, and overall look and feel of Vector 2022. We welcome feedback and questions on any of these changes. Write to us on the project talk page.
 *  Decision of the English Wikipedia community through the Request for Comment.  For the past two months, we have been discussing with the English Wikipedia community. English Wikipedians have identified issues blocking the deployment of Vector 2022 on their home wiki. They have also requested that the decision on the deployment be made through the Request for Comment process. Our draft is now available. We're planning to launch the RfC on Wednesday, September 21. If you edit English Wikipedia, we encourage you to take part!
 *  Deployment plans across other projects.  We are planning deployment conversations across all of the other Wikimedia projects. We will first begin with the smallest wikis. By the smallest, we mean smaller than top 30 largest active communities. We hope to complete this during the first week of October, 2022. Then, we will begin conversations on medium to large-size wikis. Dates will depend on the consensus across individual communities.
 *  More community-facing activities 
 * We have posted a new essay on the Diff blog. It has a title Prioritizing equity within Wikipedia's new desktop. The essay is about why and how different groups of users were represented throughout the process of building Vector 2022.
 * We have published the expanded Frequently asked questions page. Take a look and tell us if it's useful. Soon, we will make it possible to translate it.
 * We also display banners encouraging to try out Vector 2022. The banners are only visible for logged-in users having Vector legacy (2010), the current default skin.

: Wikimania, visual refinements, and more changes
Having the structural changes to the features done, we are finishing development of Vector 2022. In particular:


 * We are working on the visual refinements. We will be changing the styles, link colors, font size, content area width, and more. This is based on the results of the feedback we received from our last round of prototype testing.
 * We are releasing updates to the table of contents (ToC) based on the feedback we've received from communities. These updates will make the ToC easier to use on smaller and larger screens. There will be more customization than before. Over the next few weeks, you will see the following changes:
 * The table of contents will be collapsible at all screen sizes
 * Once collapsed, the ToC will be available at the top of the page, next to the article title, as well as in the sticky header
 * The Editing team, whose focus is currently on improving talk pages, has added an "add topic" button to the sticky header on talk pages. This will make it easier to start a new topic on a talk page from any part of the page, without having to scroll to the very top. See their project page for more information on this change and the project overall.

We have also continued discussions on how to make Vector 2022 the default for more communities. Your feedback is helping us make the skin better. We appreciate that. Let's meet again! On Saturday August 13, we are having a session at Wikimania, and a separate meeting for questions and answers right after that.

: Page title/tabs switch
We are deploying one of our latest updates. The page title will be displayed above the tabs such as, , , , or.

With this change, we are improving two things. First, we are making it clear that the items in the tabs are related to the the page that's being viewed. It's becoming apparent when we put the page title first. This change also makes switching languages easier. It moved the language button into an even more prominent position at the top of the page. Learn more on Phabricator.

We have been introducing this change in small steps. Since the last days of June, it's been available to all users opted into the Vector 2022 skin, and some early adopter wikis. During the week of July 4, the change will become visible on all the early adopter wikis.

In addition to that, our next office hours will be on July 26 instead of July 12. This will allow us to prepare the communication about making Vector 2022 the default across more wikis. We are also working on better language support for office hours in the future. More information on this coming soon!

: Table of Contents is available
We have deployed the new table of contents. It makes it easier to gain context of the contents of a page and navigate the page without needing to scroll to the top.

It is currently available to three groups of users. First, all who use Vector 2022 and are not on our pilot wikis. Second and third - 50% of logged-in users of Hebrew and Basque Wikipedias. Next week, we will be A/B testing the table of contents across the rest of our pilot wikis. We would like to check if there's a decrease in the need to scroll to the top of the page.

Before all that, we prepared a series of prototype tests with both readers and editors. To read more about how we worked on the feature based on feedback, please see the project page.

Now, we are working on the feature based on the feedback from users mentioned in the second paragraph. In particular:


 * ToC on narrower screens. We have increased the threshold for which the ToC currently hides to 1000px. (See T306904 for more context). This was to make it more comfortable to read on narrower screens. This is a temporary fix, though. The conversation about the best solution will continue in T306660. By the end of April/early May we hope to have clear next steps on our preference of the options presented there.
 * We are beginning the work on reducing the margins for screens between 1000px - 1200px. This will make the table of contents smaller and create more space for text. We will track this in T307004 and will probably have the implementation ready within a few days.



: تطوير جدول المحتويات
أظهرت نتائج اختبار النموذج الأولي الثالث دعمًا ساحقًا لـ جدول المحتويات المقترح. وبناءً على ذلك، ركز الفريق على تطوير هذه الميزة. سيكون جدول المحتويات الجديد ثابتًا - سيتمكن المستخدمون من الوصول إليه في جميع الأوقات. سيسهل أيضًا فهم سياق الصفحة. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، سيكون من الممكن التنقل إلى أجزاء مختلفة من الصفحة دون الحاجة إلى التمرير وصولاً إلى الأعلى. نتوقع نشر جدول المحتويات الجديد على مواقع الويكي التجريبية الخاصة بنا في النصف الأول من أبريل.



: التغذية الاسترجاعية لأدوات الصفحة
يبدأ الفريق العمل على أدوات الصفحة (يشار إليها أحيانًا بأدوات المقالة). هدفنا هو تسهيل مييز الغرض من العناصر الفردية داخل الشريط الجانبي. نقوم حاليًا بجمع التعليقات على النموذج الأولي المقترح. نتطلع لسماع أفكاركم! يرجى الانتقال إلى صفحة اختبار النموذج الأولي وملء النموذج.



: تأكيد الترويسة الثابتة لتقليل الحاجة إلى التمرير إلى أعلى الصفحة
من 5 يناير إلى 31 يناير 2022، أجرينا تجربتي A/B. أردنا تقييم تأثير نشر الترويسة الثابتة. أُجري الاختبار في 22 موقعًا من مواقع الويكي التجريبية الخاصة بنا. شاهد المستخدمون مُسجلي الدخول والمعينين في مجموعة المعالجة مع إصدار المظهر الجديد التروسة الثابتة. شاهد المستخدمون في مجموعة التحكم الميزة القديمة.

كان الهدف الأساسي من اختبار AB هو اختبار فرضيتنا. كنا نتوقع أن اترويسة الثابتة ستُقلل من الحاجة إلى الصعود إلى أعلى الصفحة. بشكل عام، شهدنا انخفاضًا بنسبة 15٪ في المتوسط ​​في التمرير لكل جلسة بواسطة المستخدمين المسجلين للدخول في 15 موقع ويكي تجريبي في مجموعة العلاج (باستخدام الترويسة الثابتة الجديدة)، مقارنةً بالمجموعة المرجعية (دون الترويسة الثابتة). في مواقع الويكي التجريبية السبعة المتبقية، كان هناك نشاط ضئيل للغاية وقمنا باستبعادها. تشير النتائج إلى أن فرضيتنا كانت صحيحة. أدت إضافة الترويسة الثابتة إلى الصفحة إلى تقليل الحاجة للصعود إلى أعلى الصفحة بشكل كبير. اقرأ التقرير الكامل.



: المزيد من مواقع الويكي التجريبية
تحسينات سطح المكتب متواجدة بشكل افتراضي في اثني عشر موقع ويكي آخر. بادئ الأمر هم: ويكيبيديا المغربية، الإندونيسية، التايلاندية، الفيتنامية، ويكيبيديا الفرنسية، ويكي الأخبار البرتغالية والبولندية، ويكي الكتب الفيتنامية، ويكي ميدياويكي. بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، قمنا بتمكين التغييرات على مواقع ويكيالمرتبطة بمؤسسة ويكيميديا:ويكي مؤسسة ويكيميديا ​​الحوكمة و Collab wiki وويكي الاستراتيجية. حاليًا، هناك ما يقرب من 30 موقع ويكي تجريبي. من بينها، هناك مواقع ويكي ذات نصوص وأحجام مختلفة، مكتوبة في جميع القارات، وتديرها المجتمعات والمؤسسة. نأمل أن تتم إضافة ويكي مصدر واحد على الأقل إلى تلك القائمة قريبًا.



: تطويرات الترويسة الثابتة
كان الفريق يعمل على بناء الترويسة الثابتة. سيسمح للمستخدمين الذين قاموا بتسجيل الدخول بالوصول إلى الوظائف المهمة (البحث وصفحات النقاش وصفحات التاريخ وتبديل اللغة والمزيد) في جميع أنحاء الصفحة. لقد أكملنا تطوير الإصدار الأول من الترويسة الثابتة. حاليًا، نتوقع نشر اختبار A / B على ويكيات التجريبية بحلول نهاية شهر يناير. اعتمدت الترويسة على نتائج اختبار المستخدم وإجابات المتطوعين على اختبار النموذج الأولي.



: تكرار تبديل اللغة
في وقت سابق من هذا العام، نقلنا زر اللغة إلى موقع أكثر ملاءمة أعلى الصفحة. ومع ذلك، أشارت نتائج اختبار A / B إلى أنه قد يكون من الصعب اكتشاف الموقع الجديد للزر في الحالات التالية:


 * للمستخدمين الذين اعتادوا على الموقع السابق لوظيفة تبديل اللغة
 * للمستخدمين الذين يميلون إلى تبديل اللغات عبر مواقع الويكي المتعددة. في الحالة الأخيرة، أدى ذلك إلى إنشاء حالة حيث كانت وظيفة تبديل اللغة متاحة في مواقع مختلفة اعتمادًا على ويكي المستخدم وما إذا كانت هذه الويكي جزءًا من الويكي التجريبي.

لتحسين هذه القضايا، نحن بصدد تغيير زر جديد للغة. . هدفنا هو تسهيل العثور عليه عبر جميع السيناريوهات. نأمل في إصدار هذه التحسينات في يناير 2022.



: اختبار النموذج الأولي لجدول المحتويات
خلال الأشهر القليلة المقبلة، سيكون تركيزنا الرئيسي على جعل جدول المحتويات ثابتًا. حاليًا، جدول المحتويات مُتاح فقط في أعلى الصفحة. من الصعب الحصول على سياق لمقال أو صفحة بأكملها، أو التنقل إلى أقسام فردية، عندما تكون خارج الجزء العلوي من الصفحة. نأمل أن نجعل من السهل تصفح جدول المحتويات عبر الصفحة، وكذلك لفهم سياقها.

سننشر أبحاثنا، والمزيد من الوثائق، والنماذج بالأحجام الطبيعية، خلال الأسابيع القليلة القادمة. في هذه الأثناء، نرحب بكملتزويدنا بالتعليقات والملاحظات حول نموذجنا الأولي الحالي في هذه الصفحة.