Inuka team (Archive)/Wikistories for Wikipedia/Office hours/Share feature discussion & design showcase

Meeting with Wiki Indonesian community members on May 20, 2023

Attendees:

Bobby Prabawa
Fendy Bandung 04
Ivan Lanin: admin
Luna S

Notes

The Wikimedia Indonesian community members requested a share feature in the Wikistories tool; the Inuka team started the Design exploration and invited the Indonesian community members to a virtual meeting to showcase their approach and get feedback. The team presented the different designs, and the following are conversations around the design showcase.

What are your thoughts about the sharing feature?
- I have two thoughts:
  - The links, the links don't look good on reals
  - Is it possible to use snapshots and share them on reels?
    - Basic implementation would be a URL + preview
    - Later implementation can be to improve it to platform specific…with snapshot + timestamp because users understand that info on the internet will keep changing.
      - Inuka team's response: The advantage of links is that it updates itself when there is a change to the information. We can explore the option of timestamp
- I was wondering, is there any option to export as a media?
  - Inuka team's response: We can start with the first version having the basic implementation; future versions can have downloads, exports etc.
- Is there any privacy disclaimer when people share their Wikistories in WhatsApp or Instagram?
  - People share links on other platforms and it is not a problem in my opinion.
  - We assume the same principle for articles; articles do not belong to any one person but a collaboration so Wikistories would take the same form.
- I was honestly concerned, but then again licenses in Wikipedia are mostly CC BY SA (?)
  - Yes. The license is CC BY SA.
- So, two different issues:
  - Privacy
  - License
What’s your understanding of share feature? and how is it supposed to work on Wikistories
- We already have considered some mitigations as part of existing moderation features:
  - Logged in users can edit or create Wikistories
  - Edit nudges on the story builder
  - Watchlist
  - RC logs
  - Displaying content changes to editor
- In other apps, when I share something, the URL will be preceded by some default texts (which can be changed). Will you do this as well?
  - Like having "Check this wikistories about ...http://...".
  - We will check with the Engineers if there’s any other technical implementation we can do.
- Can we change the feature to “Wikicherita”? cherita is stories in Bahasa, so Wikistories will be Wikicherita.
  - Is this term common or specific to platforms?
    - For Instagram, they call it Cherita Instagram
How do you feel about sharing the stories when Wikistories is in beta?
- Wikistories has potentials.
- I agree with Luna, why hide something good when you can share it to the world. Google has had features in beta for a long time.
  - Inuka team's response: what happens when readers are interested in seeing the stories and the tool is still hidden?
    - For me, the "Beta" label is a precaution for people that the app/feature is still not stable. They'll still use it anyway :)
  - Can we start to introduce WS on social media?
  - Inuka team's response: When you say "introduce it to the public", do you have a specific way you are looking at us doing that?
  - I think it's good to keep the feature limited somewhat, e.g. only to registered users.
  - Probably release it later from beta status but keep it as a feature that logged in users can create and edit it?