Absolutely, the only time I've ever used the sidebar is for language change, but with this change they are moving that to a more accessible place (Which is nice), but it also means the sidebar is now truly useless :)
Changing the language, yes. But translating at a glimpse will get lost this way.
Go to the wikidata page and it has the translations.
That's a click more though, while the current method doesn't necessitate a single additional click.
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look
by waldofrank on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:25PM
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Regarding the comments about the importance of language links in the sidebar: if you look here you can see that the language links will be moved to a button/menu in the article header — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
The conclusions of the user testing show that people have a much easier time finding them in the new location.
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look
by dirktheman on Thursday September 24, 2020 @02:28AM
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Their test group for this feature consists of 8 to 9 people, with 5 in a control group. You'd think that for one of the most visited sites in the world, they'd have larger test groups?
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look
by DHPersonal on Thursday September 24, 2020 @10:50AM
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Testing large amounts of people doesn’t always produce better results. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...
I just hope you can still simply hover your mouse over the languages links to see the translation without having to click and go to the foreign language article.
I don't use it for comparing between languages much because I'm bilingual and my native tongue Wikipedia is not that big, but sometimes is really interesting to see the different perspectives.