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: User testing report now available
In early 2021, the Web team and Design Research team contracted three independent research groups to study the usage of two proposed features: a fixed "sticky" header and a persistent table of contents. Our goal was to allow frequently used functionality to be available throughout the page, thus reducing the time people scrolled up and down the page looking for the tools they need. We tested new readers, casual readers, and editors in three different countries - Ghana, Indonesia, and Argentina and three different languages - English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Spanish. This report shows the findings of our studies. Overall, both of the proposed features were positively received by the study participants.

: New search widget live on pilot wikis, A/B test in progress for logged-in users
We are happy to announce that our new search widget is now available on all of our current pilot wikis by default. The new search functionality optimizes the search experience by providing context on search results, such as images and descriptions, making it easier to find the correct results.

We are also performing an A/B test on pilot wikis, for logged-in users only. The A/B test provides the new widget for 50% of logged-in users and compares it to the old search for the remaining 50%. The results of the test will allow us to measure the success of the feature and to identify areas for improvement and iteration. The test will run for 2 weeks, after which, we will analyze and publish the results.

: New search widget and other general updates
Over the past few months, we have been working on the new search widget, which will optimize the current experience by providing context, such as images and descriptions, for searches. While we have experienced some delays with this deployment, we are currently scheduled to deploy some time in February.

We have also begun reviewing some of the data on the Desktop Improvements project as a whole, as well as on individual features. We have published a report on the usage of the collapsible sidebar. According to the data, logged-out users are more likely to keep the sidebar collapsed than logged-in users. These results gave us confidence that our eventual default will be keeping the sidebar open for logged-in users and closed for logged-out users.

In addition, we also have begun looking at the rates at which logged-in users are opting out of the desktop improvements on our pilot wikis. The average opt-out rates for all logged-in users were between 1.78% on euwiki and 4.09% on hewiki. For active editors, the range was between 5% and 14%. We will be looking at this data in more detail in the weeks to come.

Finally, we wanted to give a quick timeline of the next few months:


 * February 2021 - new search widget deployed to pilot wikis. The pilot wiki list will expand to include Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, and German Wikivoyage.
 * February 2021 - Second round of prototypes for logged in users. We will be running a second round of prototypes for the sticky header and user menu with logged-in users over the month of February. We encourage everyone to review these and give us feedback!
 * March 2021 - We are currently focused on improving our language switching capabilities. We plan on deploying the new functionality this March to our pilot wikis.

September 2020: New location of search bar now available on all wikis
We have deployed the new location of the search functionality to all projects. The new location is available by default for anonymous users on our early adopter wikis, and by preference for all other users.

We are also performing an A/B test of the new location with logged-in users on our early adopter wikis. 50% of logged-in users are seeing the new experience, while the other 50% are seeing the old experience. This test will last two weeks. Our hypothesis is that the group with the new experience will search more frequently. Results will be available in approximately one month.

2020年7月：折りたたみ式サイドバー、コラム最大幅、ヘッダーの新しい方式を特定のウィキで全利用者に展開したウィキペディアの euwiki とfawiki、辞書の frwiktionary と ptwikiversity
ウィキペディアのバスク語版、ファルシ語版、ヘブライ語版、さらにフランス語版ウィクショナリー、ポルトガル語版ウィキバーシティでは、既に新版のベクター外装を受け取りました. 現状では折りたたみ式サイドバー、最大幅、新しいヘッダーを盛り込んであります. フィードバックと質問について - トークページへお越しください.

2020年7月：折りたたみ式サイドバー、コラム最大幅、ヘッダーの新しい方式を特定のプロジェクトで個人設定に導入
すべてのプロジェクトで利用者の個人設定として、折りたたみ式サイドバー、コンテンツ幅の制限、新しいヘッダーを展開しました. 参加するには - 自分の個人設定を開き、「表示」タブへ移って（訳注：項目名「外装の設定」にある）「Legacy Vectorスキンを使用する」の横の箱をクリックして白色にすると、参加になります. すると今後の更新が整い次第、受信するようになります. フィードバックと質問の対応 - トークページをご利用ください..

1番目の変更点である折りたたみ式サイドバーは、左欄外のずらずらと長いメニューを折りたためる機能です. コンテンツそのものに集中しやすくなるので - 読むのも編集もあるいは仲裁するのでも、使用感が高まるはずです.

2番目の変更点であるコンテンツ幅の制限は、たとえば記事のページや議論のページで内容表示の行幅に上限を設定します. 研究により、行幅を制限すると内容が頭に入りやすくなり、目の疲れはやわらぐことがわかっています. (検討した研究論文の一覧はよくある質問のページをご参照ください. )

2020年6月: 事務局ウィキの折りたたみ可能なサイドバー、新しいヘッダー、機能の説明
We deployed our collapsible sidebar on officewiki and testwiki. You can see it by going to either of those projects, or by appending the url parameter ?useskinversion=2 to the url on any project.

上記に加え、機能の詳しい情報ならびに分析と手法の解説は 折りたたみ式サイドバーならびに新しいヘッダーとロゴのページにご紹介しています.

2020年3月：利用者調査- フェーズ1 報告
Starting in January 2020 we have been working with Hureo, a user research firm based in India, to perform a user study on how new and casual readers use the desktop interface of Wikipedia. The outcome of the first phase of the study is a report detailing their observations from 24 user interviews. もっと詳しく The study was separated in two phases, with the first phase focusing on primarily English readers, and the second phase on bilingual and non-English readers. The goal of the study was to understand the experience of new and casual readers, both in terms of how they feel about the site and how they use the site, focusing in particular on the concepts of trust and welcomeness, as well as on the usability of commonly used features on the site. In addition, we were also interested in uncovering potential areas of improvement in terms of overall and feature-specific usability. We will be using these results to inform future feature development for desktop improvements project.

March 2020: Full results from prototype feedback
In December, 2019 we published a prototype of the first few features of the desktop improvements project for community feedback. We received detailed, thoughtful feedback from over 200 logged-in users, across five languages. We have published a report which highlights the main points raised, both positive and negative, and our plans going forward in response to this feedback. The prototype presented a collapsible version of the sidebar, a fixed-width layout, and a more prominent location for the language switcher. フィードバックはおおむね肯定的で、利用者の大多数は変更案のほうが現状のデザインよりも改善されていると見なしています. However there were also some areas of concern. Many of the issues raised were due to bugs in the prototype (particularly with the language switching menu), while others exposed areas for improvement that we will iterate on and/or keep an eye on during development.

2020年2月：初期機能および全体機能について情報更新
The setting for turning the improvements on will be within the user preferences list for logged-in users. For test wikis, the improvements will be on by default, but logged-in users will be able to turn them off anytime via their preferences or a button in the sidebar. Please see the Opting in and Release Plan page for more details and mockups. ビルドの工程に入る前に、個別の機能をテストする計画ですので、この一覧はフィードバックによって変更されていくものとします.
 * We have began building the opting-in and opting-out structure for the project.
 * We have also published the current list of features considered for the project as well as the sequence we plan on building them in.

2020年2月：フィードバックのラウンド1のまとめ
We have finished our first round of feedback for the prototype of the first few features of the desktop improvements project: the new header, collapsible sidebar, and improved language switching. So far, the results have been mostly positive, with the majority of users seeing the changes as a significant improvement over the current design. However, we also found a few areas for improvement that we will iterate on and consider during development. Here are a few highlights of the results so far:


 * A majority of the editors who tested the prototype really liked the new location of the language switcher.
 * A few editors raised concerns around internationalization and the ability to switch languages using one click.
 * A majority of the editors liked the collapsibility of the sidebar, especially for readers
 * There were some concerns around the amount of white space introduced with a collapsible sidebar and fixed-width layout
 * We saw many requests for a dark/night mode for the site

We are currently running the second feedback round on English and Polish Wikipedias. If you haven’t had a chance yet, please let us know your thoughts on the prototype page. Once both feedback rounds are completed, we will be publishing a more in-depth report.

2020年1月: 言語切り替えの利用者テスト
12月に使用感テストを実施、現状のユニバーサル言語選択ツールの配置 (左欄外のサイドバー) と、記事の見出し部分に置く案とを比べました. We tested a prototype with 21 users in order to determine if people have an easier time switching languages given the new location of the language switcher. The results of the test confirmed our hypothesis — participants in the test group (new location) were able to switch languages more quickly than participants in the control group (old location). Based on these results we plan on continuing to explore moving the language selector to this location as a part of the desktop improvements project.

December 2019年12月：使用版のテスト
Between December 2019 and February 2020, we will be performing tests on a prototype for the first few features of the desktop improvements project. We will be gathering feedback from a variety of test wikis by encouraging editors to participate using a central notice banner. We ran the banners and received feedback from the majority of our test wikis during December 2019. In February 2020, we will continue running the banners on English and Polish Wikipedias. So far, the feedback we have received is mostly positive but we have also identified some areas of our prototype that we will iterate on based on the feedback. We will be publishing the results of the first round of feedback over the next few weeks, and of the second, sometime in February. In the meantime, we encourage you to give us feedback (if you haven't yet) on the prototype page.

2019年10月：技術調査パート2
We have published the results of our technical research in preparation for beginning the work on the project. In particular, we have focused on gathering more information on the following:


 * The possibility of serving a different version of the site to logged-out users (for opt-in/opt-out and A/B testing purposes)
 * Search and the differences between the current search widgets
 * Language switching and possibilities on improving the language switcher
 * T234907 - A technical RfC on what code-base to start with
 * Changes to EventLogging and how they will impact our work

We reached out to all wikis with a MassMessage, and asked for communities to volunteer to be test wikis for this project.

2019年9月：ウィキマニアで調査報告
During Wikimania 2019, we interviewed editors with the goal of sharing the plans for our upcoming Desktop improvements project, and collecting valuable feedback on a number of preliminary design ideas. Our research consisted of user interviews, a free-form feedback exercise, and a presentation with breakout groups for more focused discussion. We have published a report and a PDF summary (in English) of the feedback we received. Overall, we received positive feedback on the focus areas selected, as well as the individual prototypes for ideas. However, we were also able to identify areas for improvements.

We will be iterating over this feedback over the next few weeks and plan on developing a prototype that we can test with a wider audience across wikis.

In the slideshow below is a sample of 19 of the ideas we tested. 文脈をもっとつかむには、レポート全部を読み、その後、トークページにフィードバックを投稿してください.

2019年9月：デスクトップ利用と挙動のデータ分析
As a part of our research process, we wanted to learn more about the way people currently use the site. In particular, how often they use available functionality such as links in the sidebar, language switching, and search. 調査結果を公表しました. . Overall, usage of sidebar links is low - only about 0.5% of all logged out users and 1.6% of all logged-in desktop users clicked on one of the pages linked in the sidebar. Language switching usage varied, generally based on the size of the wiki, with smaller wikis switching languages more often.

2019年8月：ウィキマニアで行った調査とブレーンストーミング
Wikimania provided us with the opportunity to speak with experienced members of our communities. Over the five days of the conference we were able to share the plans for the project, and collect valuable feedback on a number of design ideas. 調査の構成は利用者の面談調査、自由形式による回答集め、さらにプレゼンを行い、加えて意見交換セッションでした （現場で使用したスライド集をご参照ください）. フィードバックのまとめは間もなく公表予定で、面談結果も含まれます.

2019年8月：技術調査
プロジェクトのさまざまな技術面の可能性を探るため、チームは1週間をかけて単一の問題 - デスクトップ版使用で折りたたみ式サイドバーを実現する方法 - を課題に、アプローチを変えてハックしました. この実験の結果を活用して改善策の技術的構造、また改善策を盛りこんだ外装を想定できないかと願ったからです. 行った実験の一覧は以下のとおりです.


 * ベクター外装をフォーク（分岐）、サイドバーを折りたたみ式にする
 * |ミネルヴァ外装にデスクトップ用サイドバーを作る. 質問にあがった検討課題：「デスクトップとモバイルで共通の外装は実現できませんか？」
 * 折りたたみ式サイドバーはユーザースタイル限定で作る