Nyt on kulunut yli kymmenen vuotta siitä, kun Wikimedian nykyinen oletusulkoasu Vektori otettiin käyttöön. Viimeisen vuosikymmenen aikana käyttöliittymää on rikastettu laajennuksilla, gadgeteilla ja käyttäjäskripteillä. Suurinta osaa niistä ei ole koordinoitu visuaalisesti tai wikienvälisesti. Samaan aikaan sekä verkkosuunnittelu että lukijoiden ja muokkaajien odotukset ovat kasvaneet ja kehittyneet. Mielestämme on aika ottaa joitain näistä ideoista ja tuoda ne kaikkien käyttäjien oletusnäkymään, kaikkiin wikeihin, järjestäytyneellä ja johdonmukaisella tavalla. Over the last decade, the interface has been enriched with extensions, gadgets and user scripts. Most of these were not coordinated visually or cross-wiki. At the same time, web design, as well as the expectations of readers and editors, have evolved. We think it's time to take some of these ideas and bring them to the default experience of all users, on all wikis, in an organized, consistent way.
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Parannuksia työpöytänäkymään
.png) Sarja uusia ominaisuuksia ja vanhojen uudelleenjärjestelyjä Vektori-ulkoasuun
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Our goals are to make Wikimedia wikis more welcoming and to increase the utility amongst readers and maintain utility for existing editors. We measure the increase of trust and positive sentiment towards our sites, and the utility of our sites (the usage of common actions such as search and language switching).
Currently, on most wikis, only logged-in users are able to opt-in individually. On selected wikis, our changes are deployed for all by default, and logged-in users are able to opt-out. We are increasing the number of wikis where Vector 2022 is the default, until our improvements are default on all wikis.
Updates
joulukuu 2022: 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
- 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 ("Enable limited width mode"). 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.
Page tools
- 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
?vectorpagetools=1to the URL (if you're using Vector 2022 already) or?useskin=vector-2022&vectorpagetools=1(if you're not using Vector 2022).
Accessibility
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).
- 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.
Mikä on päämäärämme?
Kuvitellaanpa vaatekaappi
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Haluamme asteittain järjestää tämän…
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…täksi :)
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Tällä hetkellä käyttöliittymä...
…ei vastaa odotuksia. …on sotkuinen eikä kovinkaan intuitiivinen. …doesn't highlight the community side. …ei ole yhdenmukainen mobiiliversion kanssa.
- The desktop interface does not match the expectations created by the modern web platforms. It feels disorienting and disconnected. Navigation and interface links are organized haphazardly.
- There is clutter that distracts users from focusing on what they came for. It is challenging for readers to focus on the content. It is not possible for them to intuitively switch languages, search for content, or adjust reading settings. New editors are unable to use their intuition to set up their account, open the editor, or learn how to use non-article pages for moderation purposes.
- Vain hyvin pieni osa lukijoista todella ymmärtää Wikimedian wikien toimintaa. Suuri osa lukijoista ei tiedä lainkaan lukevansa vapaaehtoisten lisäämää ja säännöllisesti päivittämää sisältöä eikä tiedä voivansa itsekin osallistua muokkaamiseen.
- The large difference in experiences among our desktop interface, apps, and the mobile web, makes it difficult for readers to connect our products. There is a lack of unity in the concept of Wikimedia sites.
Miten muutoksia tehdään
Periaatteet
Emme koske lainkaan sisältöön. Emme poista yhtäkään toiminnallisuutta. Koskemme vain ja ainoastaan Vektori-ulkoasuun. We are inspired by the existing gadgets. We do not make major changes in single steps.
- We are working on the interface only. No work will be done in terms of styling templates, the structure of page contents, map support, or cross-wiki templates.
- Though our changes are easily noticeable, we are taking an evolutionary approach and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors. Each feature is discussed, developed, and deployed separately.
- Elements of the interface might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain.
- Skins other than Vector are out of the scope of our adjustments. We have frozen Vector to Legacy Vector, and begun deploying our features as parts of the new default Vector.
- We have analysed many wikis and have noticed many useful gadgets. Some of them definitely deserve to be surfaced and be a part of default experience.
- Both prior to development and after deployment, we collect data (via A/B testing, prototype feedback rounds, etc.). In the case of significantly negative results, we will roll back our changes.
- It is our intention to test our improvements in collaboration with a diverse set of volunteering early adopter wikis, both Wikipedias and sister projects.
| suurin osa wikeistä | aikaisen käyttöönoton wikit |
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| muokkaajat eivätkä lukijat eivät oletuksena näe tekemiämme muutoksia |
muokkaajat ja lukijat näkevät oletuksena tekemämme muutokset |
| vain muokkaajat voivat ottaa käyttöön (from user preferences, by checking Vektori (2022) in the Ulkoasu tab) |
vain muokkaajat voivat ottaa pois käytöstä (using Vaihda vanhaan ulkoasuun in the sidebar, or directly from their users preferences) |
Deployment plan and timeline
The skin is now ready to become the default on any wiki.
| Month and week | Community relations | ||
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| Discussions with the English Wikipedia community | Meetings with communities | ||
| Wikimania workshop | |||
| Meetings with communities | |||
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| 24. | Deployment on the smallest Wikipedias | ||
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| 14. | Discussions with the Arabic, Greek, Hindi, Norwegian, and Swedish Wikipedia communities | Full-width toggle | |
| 21. | No technical changes; meeting with the Spanish-language communities | ||
| 28. | Meeting with the Polish Wikipedia community | ||
| 5. | Deployments on some/all of the above Wikipedias | ||
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| 19., 26. |
No technical changes | ||
| 5. | Discussion with 5 other communities, most likely: Czech, Chinese, Finnish, Hungarian Wikipedia, and English Wiktionary | ||
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Luettelo aikaisen käyttöönoton wikeistä (testiwikeistä)
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First group of wikis (marked as ※ on the timeline above):
Second group of wikis (marked as † on the timeline above):
Third group of wikis (marked as ‡ on the timeline above):
Fourth group of wikis (marked as § on the timeline above): |
Get involved & Contact
- Test individually: in Preferences, check the option Vektori (2022). You can also enable our changes using the Global preferences.
- Join online meetings with us: we organize meetings every 2-3 weeks.
- Promote: Inform your community. Share our updates and blog posts.
- Report bugs: to report a bug, create a task in Phabricator and add #desktop-improvements project.
- Early adoption: We are hoping to increase the set of early adopter wikis gradually. Do you think your community might be interested in having our interface as default? Please contact us!
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Szymon Grabarczuk
Community Relations Specialist
sgrabarczuk
wikimedia.org
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Mehran
Persian Ambassador
mehran-ctr wikimedia.org
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Patafisik
French Ambassador
patafisik-ctr wikimedia.org
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Phuong Pham
Vietnamese Ambassador
ppham-ctr wikimedia.org
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Zapipedia
Spanish Ambassador
izapico-ctr wikimedia.org
- Translate: help us translate related pages:
What features will be added
Each feature was built and implemented separately, over time. Our decisions are based on community feedback, user testing, and extracted API data.
- Visualisation of deployed versions and early concepts
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