Talk:Reading/Web/Content Discovery Experiments
Discovery of Commons content
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These experiments are very interesting. However, it seems like they're only focused on Wikipedia – maybe consider also Wikimedia Commons content in regards to discovery. It's the 2nd largest Wikimedia project and has lots of well-organized quality content that at the same time is very undiscovered (see 2 examples in the images). I think there the gap between usefulness and discovery is largest. One example would be to show a panel of high-quality images (e.g. datagraphics about the subject or time-lapse videos) relating to the article in a panel below it where people can load more files or go to the linked Commons category. Please also see meta:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Do something about Google & DuckDuckGo search not indexing media files and categories on Commons.
Lastly, for better identifying related articles of interest please check out https://github.com/geohci/list-building-interface/issues/18 – that tool could be used and extended. There also is much potential in the Wikipedia app feed for content discovery such as enabling multiple different tiles recommending articles one may be interested (in different ways and using different input data such as different base articles). Prototyperspective (talk) 21:26, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Option 5: show more article recommendations in the WP app
editThese experiments are amazing and I think will probably be quite impactful. However, before working on any of these why not first pick the low-hanging fruits: the Wikipedia app could show more recommended articles, i.e. there could be an option to change the number of recommendations / base-source articles in the "Because you read" tile or the number of these tiles per day in the feed (and the default setting could also be different). One could also have a setting to increase the number of recommended articles at the bottom of articles but that's not as important.
I think it would be much easier to implement that. That would also make the app much much more interesting and engaging. The feed (and thereby the app) is currently quite boring. See the code issue on the right. Btw, if the things in those experiments are implemented like those summaries, they'd need to or probably should be also made available in the WP apps. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:14, 14 November 2024 (UTC)