Description

As part of the desktop improvements project we are planning on moving the table of contents to the side of the article, and making it persistent on the page as you scroll down. The general direction we're going forward with was informed by user testing we did in January 2021 (link to research, link to prototype). However there are still a number of open questions we would like to explore via community feedback, and a longer pilot with staff members (using the Chrome extension).

Community feedback

We will use a similar process as we have in the past. Prototype being developed in T290751.

Staff pilot

• We will be inviting WMF staff members to participate in the pilot
  • (maybe also community folks, WMDE folks?)
• People will install our Wikipedia: table of contents browser extension, and then whenever they visit Wikipedia they will see the updated table of contents feature
• The pilot will run for X weeks
• There will be a talk page where people can leave feedback throughout the pilot
• At the end of the pilot we will request feedback from participants
  • maybe a combination of the talk page and a survey/form

Open questions (i.e. sub-features to include in the pilot)

• Expanded vs. collapsed sections in ToC
• Depth of headers in ToC
• Numbering of sections in ToC
• ToC on screens below 1200px wide
• Line wrapping vs. ellipsis
• Talk pages, Editing view