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: Menu de links do usuário
O menu do usuário agora está disponível para todos os usuários que optaram pela melhorias na área de trabalho. Este menu torna mais fácil para novos editores e leitores identificar quais links estão relacionados às suas ferramentas pessoais. Essas ferramentas são: página do usuário e página de discussão, lista de páginas vigiadas, etc. Também permite coesão visual no topo de nossas páginas.

Estamos monitorando como a mudança afeta o número de cliques nesses links. Com base nos resultados, podemos decidir melhorar o menu. Além disso, os voluntários comentaram sobre a posição do link da lista de páginas vigiadas. Estamos trabalhando nisso. Os detalhes estão disponíveis no Phabricator.

Julho, 2021:Nova funcionalidade para alteração de idioma
Durante os últimos meses, a equipe tem estado focada em melhorar a funcionalidade para alteração de idioma em nossos projetos. Anteriormente, os links de idiomas estavam disponíveis no fim do menu lateral, e eram dificilmente achados por leitores e editores novatos. Nós realizamos uma alteração que permite que a funcionalidade para trocar de idioma apareça no topo da página como um botão. Nós construímos esta funcionalidade baseado no comentário de editores e leitores sobre nosso protótipo e outros testes.

A funcionalidade foi implantada para 50% dos usuários registrados em junho de 2021 para que fosse realizado um teste A/B que irá comparar o uso em relação à posição anterior. Atualmente, o teste A/B foi concluído e todos os usuários nas wikis piloto devem ter acesso à nova funcionalidade para troca de idiomas.

Julho, 2021: Publicação do relatório do teste do protótipo em breve
Em maio e junho de 2021, a equipe pediu comentários de 30 comunidades de diferentes idiomas sobre um protótipo das ideias de recursos mais recentes do projeto. Estes recursos eram o menu de usuário, que permitirão os usuários a terem suas ligações pessoais em um único lugar, e um cabeçalho fixo que permite acessar recursos (ex.: edição, histórico e página de discussão) a qualquer momento. Anteriormente, estes dois recursos estavam disponíveis somente no topo da página. Em geral, recebemos 305 respostas de usuários registrados sobre sua experiência com os protótipos.

A maioria dos participantes indicaram uma experiência positiva com o protótipo. Entretanto, recebemos também alguns comentários sobre o comportamento do cabeçalho fixo. Em particular, recebemos pedidos para que o comportamento fosse persistente durante toda a experiência, ao invés de somente ativo ao rolar a página. Estamos atualmente implementando essas sugestões.

Um relatório completo da análise do feedback que recebemos será publicado mais tarde neste mês.

Maio de 2021: Relatório do teste com usuários publicado
No início de 2021, as equipes de Web e de Pesquisa de Design contrataram três grupos de pesquisa independentes para estudar o uso dos dois recursos propostos: um cabeçalho fixo e um índice persistente. Noss objetivo era permitir que ferramentas muito utilizadas estivessem disponíveis ao longo da página toda, assim reduzindo a necessidade de rolar a página para cima ou para baixo em busca dessas ferramentas. Testamos com novos leitores, leitores casuais e editores de três países diferentes – Gana, Indonésia e Argentina – e em três idiomas diferentes – inglês, indonésio e espanhol. Este relatório mostra os resultados de nossos estudos. Em geral, ambos os recursos foram recebidos positivamente pelos participantes do estudo.

: Novo widget de pesquisa ao vivo em wikis piloto, teste A/B em andamento para usuários logados
Estamos felizes em anunciar que nosso novo widget de pesquisa está agora disponível em todos os nossos wikis piloto atuais por padrão. A nova funcionalidade de pesquisa otimiza a experiência de pesquisa fornecendo contexto nos resultados da pesquisa, como imagens e descrições, facilitando a localização dos resultados corretos.

Também estamos realizando um teste A/B em wikis piloto, apenas para usuários logados. O teste A/B fornece o novo widget para 50% dos usuários logados e o compara com a pesquisa antiga para os 50% restantes. Os resultados do teste nos permitirão medir o sucesso do recurso e identificar áreas de melhoria e iteração. O teste será executado por 2 semanas, após as quais analisaremos e publicaremos os resultados.

: Novo widget de pesquisa e outras atualizações gerais
Nos últimos meses, trabalhamos no novo widget de pesquisa, que otimizará a experiência atual fornecendo contexto, como imagens e descrições, para pesquisas. Embora tenhamos experimentado alguns atrasos com esta implantação, estamos programados para implantar em algum momento de fevereiro.

Também começamos a revisar alguns dos dados do projeto Melhorias da Área de Trabalho como um todo, bem como de recursos individuais. Publicamos um relatório sobre o uso da barra lateral recolhível. De acordo com os dados, os usuários desconectados são mais propensos a manter a barra lateral recolhida do que os usuários logados. Esses resultados nos deram confiança de que nosso eventual padrão será manter a barra lateral aberta para usuários conectados e fechada para usuários desconectados.

Além disso, também temos começando a procurar nas taxas em que os usuários logados estão optando por não receber as Melhorias da Área de Trabalho em nossas wikis piloto. 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.

: 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.

: Collapsible sidebar, maximum width, and new header now available to all users on euwiki, fawiki, frwiktionary, euwiki, and ptwikiversity
Basque, Farsi, and Hebrew Wikipedias, as well as French Wiktionary and Portuguese Wikiversity have now received the new version of the Vector skin by default. For now, these changes include the collapsible sidebar, maximum width, and new header. For feedback and questions - please head to our talk page.

: Collapsible sidebar, maximum width, and new header now available as a preference to all projects
We have now deployed our collapsible sidebar, maximum width, and new header to all projects as a user preference. To opt-in - go to the appearance tab on your preferences page and uncheck the "legacy vector" option. Once opted in, you will receive all future updates as soon as they are ready. For feedback and questions - please head to our talk page.

Our first change, a collapsible sidebar, allows users to collapse the lengthy menu on the left side of the page. We believe this change improves usability by allowing people to focus on the content itself - on reading, editing, or moderating.

Our second change introduces a maximum line width to our content on pages such as article pages and discussion pages. Studies have shown that limiting the width can lead to better retention of content, as well as a decrease in eye strain. (please review our FAQ for a list of the literature reviewed)

: Collapsible sidebar on officewiki, new header, and feature descriptions
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.

In addition, we have published more details on the collapsible sidebar and header and logo changes, including in-depth feature descriptions and analysis and measurement plans.

: User Research with Readers - phase 1 report
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. Read more 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.

: 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. The feedback was mostly positive, with the majority of users seeing the proposed changes as an improvement over the current design. 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.

: Update on initial features and overall feature sequence
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. As we will be testing each individual feature prior to building, this list is subject to change based on the feedback we receive.
 * 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.

: Feedback Round 1 Summary
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.

: Language Switching Users Tests
In December we did some usability testing to compare the current placement of the Universal Language Selector (in the sidebar) with the proposed location in the article header. 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.

: Prototype testing
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.

: Technical Research pt 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.

: Wikimania research report
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. For more context, please read the full report and then give us feedback on the talk page!

: Desktop usage and behavior data analysis
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. We have published our results. 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.

: Research and brainstorming at Wikimania
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. Our research consisted of user interviews, a free-form feedback exercise, and a presentation + brainstorming session (you can see the slide-deck we used at the side). We will soon be publishing the summary of the feedback, as well as interview session results.

: Technical Research
To explore different technical possibilities for the project, the team spent a week hacking on different approaches to a single problem - how to enable the sidebar in the desktop experience to be collapsible. We are hoping to use the results from these experiments to determine the technical architecture for the improvements, as well as the skin we would like to build these improvements within. Here is a list of the experiments themselves:


 * Building a collapsible sidebar using a fork of the vector skin
 * Building the desktop sidebar within the Minerva skin. An exploration in the question: "is there a world where we have the same skin for desktop and mobile?"
 * Building a collapsible sidebar using user styles only