Context

The treatment group will recieve these new user flows. When users hover the reference preview on desktop, they can be lead with highlighting and a tooltip to click for the persistent state of Reference Previews.

User story:

As a reader reading a wikipedia article on desktop, when I hover over a footnote marker in an article in read mode, I want to be able to persist the pop-up so that I can make my own decision to visit the reference list or be satisfied with the information presented to me in the pop up.

Designs:

• See Figma for details.

Important:

• Dismiss with X or by clicking anywhere outside of the popup
• Content should not shift position when moving from hover to persistent state refpreview
• Scrolling through the content should be possible in the hover state
• A hover tooltip text 'click for more options' is shown when user hovers over 'hovered state'

Edge case:

• When the preview is in view after a hover on the footnote and the user decides to click on the footnote, the preview switches to the persist state. There will be no hover effect in the preview then.