Wikipedia adds page previews to web version

Mockup by Nirzar Pangarkar/Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 3.0

Ever found yourself going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Well, Wikipedia hopes to make those sessions a bit more productive with its latest feature for the web. The site now shows page previews via a popup window to give you additional context for a link. When you hover your mouse over the link, it’ll show you an image and a few sentences from the link to inform you what you might be clicking on. When you click on it, it’ll take you to the page in question. If not, it just disappears.

Wikipedia claims that testing done for the feature had users interacting with content more on the page and most users didn’t disable this feature. And while the site’s page views have gone down, this apparently means that people are finding the information they get on the fewer pages they visit as sufficient sources of information.

Source: The Verge