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[25Q1] Improve About widget experience for translators and multi-lingual contributors
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Description

While working on unifying the tabs on the function view page we also explored an opportunity to improve the experience of use for the about widget, especially with translators and multi-lingual contributors in mind.

This proposal lets editor compare languages without closing the dialog, plus enables contributors to add more than one language at a time.

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If we choose to address this, it may be beneficial to explore the Language team's work on content and section translation, as their approaches could also inform improvements to the About widget.

Design

https://www.figma.com/design/B1p8nS1mjHXhl8icr4Rxcs/T360610-About-widget-2.0?node-id=155-17378&t=oWBAz2i2RefaMzm5-1

Subtasks

This quarterly epic includes two areas of work:

  • T369617 Implement the approved design.
  • T369622 Design a set of metrics (qualitative and quantitative) that will allow us to measure success.
    • [Depending on previous task] Implement new events (if any) to capture metrics

Event Timeline

this work can be part of a larger area of work on translation and multilingual editing, if it gets accepted for the upcoming quarter, see PRD.

I really like the idea of this functionality

I really like the idea of this functionality

thank you! :)

gengh updated the task description. (Show Details)
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Improve About widget experience for translators and multi-lingual contributors to [25Q1] Improve About widget experience for translators and multi-lingual contributors.Jun 26 2024, 9:30 AM

Change #1052114 had a related patch set uploaded (by Genoveva Galarza; author: Genoveva Galarza):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] [WIP] About widget 2.0

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1052114

Change #1055952 had a related patch set uploaded (by Genoveva Galarza; author: Genoveva Galarza):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Add language-related getters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1055952