Hello @HLHJ @Mike Peel @Czar @John Cummings @T Cells @Pigsonthewing @Sdkb @John Broughton @Pelagic @NickK @LittlePuppers @Zoozaz1 -- thank you all for being part of the discussion around the "add an image" structured task! It's been several months since I posted an update around this work, but I hope to re-engage you all to help think about the next steps we're taking. In short, after about a year of community discussions, user tests, and prototypes, the Growth team has decided to build a first iteration of this task for the web. We're going to build it quickly and minimally, and try it just on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). While there are still lots of risks and open questions, all the information we've gathered make us think we should continue to proceed and learn -- we think if we are smart about it, this structured task can be successful. So we're going to build carefully, and we're going to be looking to pivot if things aren't going well.
The materials about our plans and our mockups are under the new "Iteration 1" heading on the project page. To see the validation work we did leading up to this decision, see the "Idea validation" section. I know it's been a while, so here's a quick refresher on the main steps we've taken so far:
- Tested a simple algorithm for matching images to Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata to make sure it is accurate.
- Had conversations on this page and on Arabic, Czech, Bengali, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- Ran user tests with newcomers on a prototype to see if newcomers like and understand the task.
- Learned from the Android team's simple version of the workflow for the Android app, which did not save edits, but did collect a lot of data on how users do the task and how they perform.
The data from that last step (the Android version) is what allowed us to decide to move forward with the Growth team version.
I hope you all can take a look at the plans and mockups we've posted. We have multiple design concepts and a few decisions we've made (that are not set in stone!) around how we want to scope this first version so that it will be simple for users and quick to build.
What do you think of these plans? Which design concepts stand out to you as strong and weak? What pitfalls do you see or ideas do you have? In particular, we're hoping to hear ideas about how best to implement "quality gates" (you'll see what I mean on the project page). Thank you all!