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On 22 January 2021, the previous anniversary logo was replaced with a less striking version, consisting of the normative Wikipedia globe above the text "20 years of Wikipedia – Over One Billion Edits" to commemorate the concurrent milestone of reaching one billion recorded edits to the English Wikipedia.
Jan 18, 2023 · By Wikimedia Foundation • 18 January 2023. The interface update, built in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide, will make the site more welcoming, easier to use for everyone. Update: On 4 May 2023, the desktop update was deployed to Spanish Wikipedia.
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- Testing Strategy
While it felt most natural to us to start by identifying specific improvements we wanted to make, we articulated some higher level goals as well. The purposes of having higher level goals were: to help connect our work with the movement’s goals, and to provide guidance to the feature work should we be faced with difficult tradeoffs. We also knew th...
Make Wikimedia projects more welcoming to new readers and editorsIncrease utility amongst readers and maintain utility for existing editorsIncrease trust and positive sentiment towards our sites (measured qualitatively)Increase utility of our sites, measured through proxy metrics by usage of common actions such as search and language switching (measured quantitatively)Additional: monitor core metrics throughout the process to identify any other significant effects of the changesWhen thinking about our testing strategy, we identified several goals: 1. Expand our testing group to a more diverse set of people, in terms of ages, locations, languages, and more, in order to represent the users we hope to reach on Wikipedia. 2. Understand the effects of the individual changes 3. Understand the effects of the combination of all t...
Sep 23, 2020 · Forthcoming changes to the desktop include a reconfigured logo, collapsible sidebar, table of contents, and more! You can see the full list of new features on MediaWiki. These changes will happen incrementally over a long period of time, to allow for ample user testing and feedback.
Jan 18, 2023 · Wikipedia, one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade. The Wikimedia Foundation ...
Jan 18, 2023 · By Michael Kan. January 18, 2023. (Credit: Wikipedia) Wikipedia is finally giving its desktop interface an updated design—its first in over 10 years. The site is rolling out the new look now...
Sep 24, 2020 · Wikipedia's parent company, Wikimedia, has announced a multi-year project to improve the website's desktop interface, and make it easier to navigate. Changes will include a reconfigured logo, a new collapsible sidebar, a new table of contents and more.
