Evolving Wiki Performance
As promised, we are beginning to share our analysis of how wiki-specific elements impact Google's Core Web Vitals metrics as part of our Evolving with the Web work. This blog will serve as a high-level summary of our initial findings. If you would prefer to read my very in-depth analysis, head over to this help page.
- 1 The Metrics
- 2 What we can do
- 3 What you can do
- 3.1 Short pages and stubs
- 3.2 Tabbed pages
- 3.3 Shortening pages
- 4 What’s next?
To recap, Core Web Vitals is Google’s new project which measures 3 different aspects of how a website loads once you navigate to it. The purpose of this project is to ensure that websites which provide an immediately good user experience in terms of loading in and letting you engage are rewarded with better search r…
State of Mobile 2021
There has never before been a time when our digital habits have so radically changed in a short period. How we experience streaming media, games, and the world outside our homes have dramatically shifted. Even if — over the last 6 months — we have gone outside less often, our relationships with computers and mobile phones have also changed. We would like to follow up on some of our earlier bulletins and describe the trends before and during the global pandemic, and where we are projecting they are going in 2021.
Spoiler alert: the mobile revolution continues, stronger than ever.
- 1 Readers on different platforms
- 1.1 Mobile sessions
- 2 Global audiences
- 3 Editing on mobile
- 4 Performance and cross-platform content
- 4.1 Network speeds
- 5 Moving forward
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Short and long pages on Fandom
Fandom is the most comprehensive source of information for fans of all varieties of what we love. Contributors from the most comprehensive chroniclers to devoted enthusiasts share every aspect of their fandom topics on wikis. This leads to a lot of material for readers to explore, and getting these readers to what they seek is the purpose of nearly every wiki.
Sometimes, though, such information is not as easily found because it is buried or scarce. Many wikis use tabs and tab panels (called "tabbers") to arrange their content. In this post, we're going to talk about how to organize some article content to make it more accessible to seekers.
Wikipedia links and rationale regarding these topics : Article size
There's a big difference between b…
Refining Your Editing Experiences
Something that sets wikis apart from other knowledge bases is that a broad number of contributors can take part in building and maintaining it.
- 1 Making your mark
- 1.1 Example: The Chronicler
- 2 The full experience
- 2.1 An updated VisualEditor
- 2.2 An updated wikitext editor
- 3 Away from the keyboard
- 3.1 A return to mobile editing
- 4 The Revolution will be televised
We all think of blood as being an essential component to the human body, but in reality it only makes up a small percentage of the overall whole. In the same way, contributing editors only make up 0.05% of our wiki ecosystem and are just as vital. We depend on wiki contributors for new content, improving and curating text and images, and keeping communities flowing socially.
A common struggle for ma…
Infoboxes on Fandom
Infoboxes are a traditional part of wiki pages, usually providing a summary of basic facts about a page's topic. They're meant to inform and inspire readers to read the associated page. They can also overload a reader and drive them to frustration.
- Wikipedia links and rationale regarding these topics
- Infoboxes, from the Manual of Style · Law of infobox inclusion
This seems like a simple question for many wiki readers and editors, but many wikis consider the answer differently. An infobox is an element on a wiki page that provides short data, information, and navigation about the main topic of the page. Whether on desktop or mobile devices, the first and most common component on a page is the primary infobox. Readers expect it to contain a bri…