The Impact of the 2023 Wikipedia Redesign on User Experience
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| Publicado en: | Informatics vol. 12, no. 3 (2025), p. 97-112 |
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| 245 | 1 | |a The Impact of the 2023 Wikipedia Redesign on User Experience | |
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| 513 | |a Journal Article | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a In January 2023, Wikipedia introduced its most significant user interface (UI) redesign in over a decade, aiming to improve readability, accessibility, and navigation across devices. Despite the scale of this change, little empirical work has assessed its actual impact on user behavior. This study employs a natural experiment framework, leveraging Wikipedia’s exogenous, site-wide redesign date and large-scale, publicly available data—including clickstream, pageview, and edit histories—to evaluate user experience before and after the change. Using a quasi-experimental design, we estimate an immediate jump of ~1.06 million monthly internal link clicks at launch, while average hourly pageviews in January rose 1.25% despite a one-time –1.79 million dip at rollout. These results highlight the potential of large-scale UI changes to reshape user interaction without broadly alienating users and demonstrate the value of quasi-experimental methods for Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Our approach offers a replicable framework for evaluating real-world design interventions at scale. | |
| 610 | 4 | |a Wikipedia | |
| 653 | |a User interface | ||
| 653 | |a Readability | ||
| 653 | |a Encyclopedias | ||
| 653 | |a User behavior | ||
| 653 | |a Usability | ||
| 653 | |a User experience | ||
| 653 | |a Human-computer interface | ||
| 653 | |a Redesign | ||
| 653 | |a Social networks | ||
| 653 | |a Design of experiments | ||
| 653 | |a Modernization | ||
| 653 | |a Cognitive load | ||
| 653 | |a User interfaces | ||
| 653 | |a Efficiency | ||
| 653 | |a Case studies | ||
| 700 | 1 | |a Prajjwal, Gandharv | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Vachuska Karl | |
| 773 | 0 | |t Informatics |g vol. 12, no. 3 (2025), p. 97-112 | |
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