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[M] Appearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search
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Description

Problem

The sister projects on the right are often unnoticed by users. Some users think they may be ads. Most users are not aware of these sister projects often noted in the user interviews.

Current presentation of sister projects

sister projects.png (1×3 px, 852 KB)

User story

When going through search on special:search page … 
… I want to be able to see links to relevant non-wikipedia content like linked galleries, wikiquotes etc,
… so that I can discover and explore other wikiprojects for relevant content.

Proposed design
Link to Desktop specs in Figma

sister projects.png (800×1 px, 113 KB)

Link to Mobile specs in Figma

Mobile_sister projects.png (800×360 px, 52 KB)

Acceptance Criteria

  • Remove the header "Results from sister projects"
  • Remove background box
  • Update sister projects icons. These are the new black and white icons added to design system. All the icons can be found at the bottom of this icon list.
  • Add sister project name as a header (with icon) for each project
  • Update sister project search outlink copy, style and placement. - "See all results" link in the mock.
  • Add new spacing/padding to better align with the overall page. Follow the grid as mentioned in this ticket. The padding within the section can be found on Figma
  • Mobile only: Show sister projects below the results only on the first page. Currently it is repeated on all pages.

Event Timeline

CBogen renamed this task from Appearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search to [M] Appearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search.May 4 2022, 4:34 PM

Noting that development can begin, but nothing should be merged until we've had the chance to get feedback from the communities (in progress).

Sneha updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 811927 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkThisDot; author: MarkThisDot):

[mediawiki/core@master] ppearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/811927

MarkThisDot subscribed.

Completed and handover to Simone

Change 811927 abandoned by Seddon:

[mediawiki/core@master] ppearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search

Reason:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/811927

Change 811927 restored by Seddon:

[mediawiki/core@master] ppearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/811927

Change 811927 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] ppearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/811927

Update on the new icons to be added to OOUI by design systems team. The ticket has been created T314661 and I am waiting on the status on when it will be available.

Update from Volker on DS team: The icons will be available next week on Tuesday. The release goes into next MediaWiki branch cut, which is normally night Mon to Tue PST

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For design review (@Sneha) - the following specs are not yet done
- Update sister projects icons. These are the new black and white icons added to design system. All the icons can be found at the bottom of this icon list.
Based on your comment above, the new icons icons will be available later (after wmf.25 deployment).
- Add sister project name as a header (with icon) for each project
The project names are not present - see the screenshots below.
- Mobile only: Show sister projects below the results only on the first page. Currently it is repeated on all pages.
The sister projects are present on every page.

(1) Desktop: wikiproject name displayed as a link

mockupbetalabsproduction
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Screen Shot 2022-08-15 at 1.01.09 PM.png (603×1 px, 117 KB)
Screen Shot 2022-08-15 at 1.20.58 PM.png (748×1 px, 234 KB)

(2) Mobile

  • no dividing line
  • project icons are displayed on a separate line (due to project names displayed as links)
mockupbetalabsproduction
Screen Shot 2022-08-15 at 1.28.58 PM.png (1×954 px, 643 KB)
Screenshot_20220815-133933_Chrome.jpg (2×1 px, 614 KB)
Screenshot_20220815-132749_Chrome (1).jpg (2×1 px, 469 KB)
  • The project name alias' are , when it hits production the project name rather than the domain should show. It performed correctly locally and it should perform as expected in production.
  • Divider added to a qa fix task
  • New task filed to cover switching to new icons.

Note for QA: some AC were not complete and those have been moved to T315324. As long as the rest passes QA, this can be closed.

Re-checked in wmf.26 (both desktop and mobile) and, also, reviewed T315324: Outstanding appearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search - all UI display issues are captured there. No additional issues were found - closing this task as Resolved.

Interesting, that cawiki adds its own version of sister wikis reference when there are no search results found.
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cawikienwiki
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Test wiki on Patch demo by Seddon using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/a551069181/w/