Topic on Talk:Reading/Readers contributions via Android

This seems by far the most promising proposal because it (theoretically) means the readers actually become editors. However, it has the same shortcomings as the error reporting: false information can be missed by the reviewers due to the sheer quantity of feedback. This needs to be addressed by design (powerful validations which need to be aware of property types and meaning, perhaps a sandbox, a way to identify and block repeating offenders)

Also, reading Extension:WikiGrok/Lessons_learned it would seem that there is a lot of traffic needed to update an infobox, for instance (see the comments about the API limitations). How does that work for users which do not have access to Wikipedia Zero?

@Strainu I think I cover your first concern here: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Thn5jofh98tul45p&topic_showPostId=thnbsw9ur1txpkbg#flow-post-thnbsw9ur1txpkbg What we originally did with wikigrok was only submit the fact if 9 out of 10 users agreed. The Wikidata API has been improved significantly in the last 18 months. @Smalyshev (WMF) can you confirm whether or not the original issues with Wikigrok remain?

Regarding Wikipedia Zero, I believe all WMF projects are covered --otherwise calls to commons images would present a problem and they do not.

@Jkatz (WMF) I'll check it - I'm not sure I am up to date what were the actual issues that lead to it - I only knew that it happened but not why.

@Jkatz (WMF) I looked at the page and I am not aware of any improvements that would be directly related, but I may be not up-to-date. I still don't see API that would allow editing multiple statements at once, but maybe I'm missing something.

Not sure also what's the status of CORS, I'd talk to Wikidata folks about it.

@Smalyshev (WMF)   Thank you for the prompt response- I appreciate it.  In that case, we'll have to look deeper into the status if this path gains traction.

@Jkatz (WMF), the problem is not whether the Wikimedia projects are included or not, but whether the user is in a network that has a partnership with the WMF. If a user gets caught in this game (and Wikidata games can do that to you :)) he might end up with unexpected charges. That would not be nice for our good name. Some kind of warning should be shown at least when activating the feature.

@Strainu I see! Thank you for clarifying.