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[M] Add messaging to the MediaSearch page linking back to Special:Search and indicating that there is a preference
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Feb 16 2021, 7:27 PM
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Description

When MediaSearch becomes default, as a Commons user, I want to be able to find Special:Search if I need it, and I want to be aware that there is a preference to switch my default back, so that I can switch if I want to.

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banner.jpg (845×1 px, 335 KB)
link.jpg (721×1 px, 308 KB)

Acceptance Criteria:

  • There is a link to Special:Search from the upper right corner of the MediaSearch page that reads "Switch to Special:Search"
  • There is an alert/banner for logged in users about the new preference on the MediaSearch page for logged in users that reads "Looking for Special:Search? You can now adjust your preferences to select your preferred search experience"
  • Once a logged-in user dismisses the notice, it does not appear for them again

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Suppress user notice on mobilemediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfowmf/1.36.0-wmf.37+5 -1
Style change to mediasearch logged-in notice closemediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfowmf/1.36.0-wmf.37+3 -1
Style change to mediasearch logged-in notice closemediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfomaster+3 -1
Suppress user notice on mobilemediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfomaster+5 -1
Add link to Special:Searchmediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfomaster+18 -1
MediaSearch page linking back to Special:Searchmediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfomaster+126 -0
Customize query in gerrit

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CBogen created this task.Feb 16 2021, 7:27 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 16 2021, 7:27 PM
CBogen moved this task from Incoming to Needs Design on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Feb 16 2021, 7:27 PM
Keegan subscribed.Feb 16 2021, 8:34 PM
mwilliams added a comment.Feb 17 2021, 7:33 PM

Two ideas for this ticket so far:

  • Small link in the top right that can live there for the foreseeable future. Have been struggling with the copy here. "Switch to old search, "Switch to classic search", "Switch to text based search" were all ideas.

02.jpg (721×1 px, 307 KB)

  • An alert that can be dismissed for logged in users that links to Special:Search and the preferences page. Again, the copy is giving me trouble to get right.

01.jpg (845×1 px, 335 KB)

Keegan added a comment.Feb 17 2021, 7:55 PM

"Switch to the text-based Special:Search"?

"Old search" won't help most as they won't know what that is, since users don't use it, same problem with the "Classic" nomenclature. So I like the "text-based" but add in the name of the page, so it's clear it's just a different page and not going to magically transform this search page.

mwilliams added a comment.Feb 22 2021, 8:01 PM

Good points @Keegan, thanks for the input!

  • We want to make sure it's clear to experienced contributors what we are referring and linking to, which makes me think that just calling it "Special:Search" is a good idea. (As Keegan suggests)
  • We also don't want to confused people who have landed on search and aren't familiar with Commons or the concept of "Special:". I think this can mostly be solved by not showing the banner to logged out visitors. It could be worth not showing the "switch" link to logged out users either but don't know how often our more advanced users are logged out.

01.jpg (845×1 px, 335 KB)

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CBogen updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 24 2021, 9:44 PM
CBogen moved this task from Needs Design to Ready for Estimation on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.
CBogen moved this task from Ready for Estimation to Needs Design on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Mar 1 2021, 5:39 PM
• Jseddon subscribed.Mar 3 2021, 6:23 PM
mwilliams updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 3 2021, 9:04 PM
mwilliams moved this task from Needs Design to Ready for Estimation on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Mar 8 2021, 5:18 PM
AnneT subscribed.Mar 8 2021, 5:59 PM

Note that something pretty similar was done for the MachineVision project: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/MachineVision/+/596513

CBogen renamed this task from Add messaging to the MediaSearch page linking back to Special:Search and indicating that there is a preference to [M] Add messaging to the MediaSearch page linking back to Special:Search and indicating that there is a preference.Mar 9 2021, 2:10 PM
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• Jseddon moved this task from Ready for Development to Doing on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Mar 13 2021, 11:05 PM
• Jseddon claimed this task.Mar 24 2021, 8:15 PM
mwilliams added a comment.EditedMar 24 2021, 9:59 PM

@Jseddon brought to my attention that now that we have the "Help" link in the top right, that this design doesn't quite work. A few points I mentioned from our Slack thread

  • Let's try not to show the permanent text link when the alert / banner is showing as it's redundant.
  • One option could be to place the "Switch to Special:Search" next to the "Help" link and remove the black ? icon
    Screen Shot 2021-03-24 at 3.28.30 PM.png (786×1 px, 612 KB)
  • Regarding mobile web, my initial reaction is to hide both of these messages. The alert / banner in particular will take up a large portion of the screen. Having a large banner to promote the action of leaving Media Search right when you land on it feels like a pretty weird experience. I also don't think that the use case we are aiming for with these messages is as prevalent on mobile web. Any thoughts on this point @CBogen?
• Jseddon triaged this task as High priority.Mar 24 2021, 11:14 PM
CBogen added a comment.Mar 24 2021, 11:28 PM
In T274927#6943704, @mwilliams wrote:

@Jseddon brought to my attention that now that we have the "Help" link in the top right, that this design doesn't quite work. A few points I mentioned from our Slack thread

  • Let's try not to show the permanent text link when the alert / banner is showing as it's redundant.
  • One option could be to place the "Switch to Special:Search" next to the "Help" link and remove the black ? icon
    Screen Shot 2021-03-24 at 3.28.30 PM.png (786×1 px, 612 KB)
  • Regarding mobile web, my initial reaction is to hide both of these messages. The alert / banner in particular will take up a large portion of the screen. Having a large banner to promote the action of leaving Media Search right when you land on it feels like a pretty weird experience. I also don't think that the use case we are aiming for with these messages is as prevalent on mobile web. Any thoughts on this point @CBogen?

I like Matthew's suggestion of removing the black ? icon and placing the Switch to Special:Search text next to the Help link. I'm also fine with not showing the banner on mobile, since as Matthew said, power users looking for Special:Search are mostly on desktop. We can come back to this if we hear otherwise. (Looks like the help link doesn't show on mobile either, which I also think is fine).

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 25 2021, 1:03 AM

Change 674740 had a related patch set uploaded (by Seddon; author: Seddon):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] MediaSearch page linking back to Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/674740

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 25 2021, 1:03 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 25 2021, 10:24 AM

Change 674846 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matthias Mullie; author: Matthias Mullie):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] WIP add link to Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/674846

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 29 2021, 11:59 AM

Change 674740 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] MediaSearch page linking back to Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/674740

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 29 2021, 12:42 PM

Change 674846 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Add link to Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/674846

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.37; 2021-03-30).Mar 29 2021, 1:00 PM
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• Jseddon moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Mar 29 2021, 3:02 PM
matthiasmullie moved this task from Code Review to Needs QA on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Mar 30 2021, 10:42 AM
Etonkovidova moved this task from Needs QA to Verify on Production on the Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work) board.Mar 30 2021, 3:00 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 30 2021, 4:01 PM

Change 675832 had a related patch set uploaded (by Seddon; author: Seddon):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Style change to mediasearch logged-in notice close

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675832

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 30 2021, 4:01 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 4:44 AM

Change 675942 had a related patch set uploaded (by Seddon; author: Seddon):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Suppress user notice on mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675942

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 8:34 AM

Change 675882 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matthias Mullie; author: Seddon):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.37] Style change to mediasearch logged-in notice close

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675882

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 8:34 AM

Change 675883 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matthias Mullie; author: Seddon):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.37] Suppress user notice on mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675883

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 8:54 AM

Change 675942 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Suppress user notice on mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675942

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 8:54 AM

Change 675832 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Style change to mediasearch logged-in notice close

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675832

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.38; 2021-04-06); removed MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.37; 2021-03-30).Mar 31 2021, 9:00 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 11:33 AM

Change 675882 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.37] Style change to mediasearch logged-in notice close

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675882

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 11:33 AM

Change 675883 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.37] Suppress user notice on mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/675883

Stashbot mentioned this in T276261: [L] Build namespace filter feature in JS UI.Mar 31 2021, 11:38 AM

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Etonkovidova updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 31 2021, 9:05 PM
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Checked on commons wmf.37

I'm moving the task back to Design review for @mwilliams review if the following need additional follow-ups. Aside from that the task may be closed as Resolved.
(1) from this comment

Let's try not to show the permanent text link when the alert / banner is showing as it's redundant.

The links are displayed when the banner is present. When the banner is dismissed - the links stay (it's a correct behavior).

Screen Shot 2021-03-31 at 2.04.18 PM.png (348×1 px, 60 KB)

(2) on mobile the functionality - to have MediaSearch as default - is not present. Should it be addressed in other tasks?

mwilliams added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 9:43 PM

Thanks Elena!

Let's try not to show the permanent text link when the alert / banner is showing as it's redundant

I don't think this is a blocker, just found it a bit weird to have two links to the same place. Let's ignore this for now!

On mobile the functionality - to have MediaSearch as default - is not present. Should it be addressed in other tasks?

I was expecting MediaSearch to be the default on mobile web as well? Not sure if that should be related to this ticket though? cc: @CBogen

CBogen closed this task as Resolved.Apr 1 2021, 1:11 PM
In T274927#6962560, @mwilliams wrote:

Thanks Elena!

Let's try not to show the permanent text link when the alert / banner is showing as it's redundant

I don't think this is a blocker, just found it a bit weird to have two links to the same place. Let's ignore this for now!

On mobile the functionality - to have MediaSearch as default - is not present. Should it be addressed in other tasks?

I was expecting MediaSearch to be the default on mobile web as well? Not sure if that should be related to this ticket though? cc: @CBogen

Yep, it should be the default on mobile. Cormac created T279057 and is working on it now, so this ticket can be closed.

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