Wikimedia Apps/Team/Android/コミュニケーション

This page is a translated version of the page Wikimedia Apps/Team/Android/Communication and the translation is 28% complete.

背景

Android チームは2021年2月、アプリのトークページ機能のバージョン1を導入しました。こうして今後1年かけてAndroid アプリのコミュニケーションを向上するプロジェクトの第1期が始まりました。当初計画のエピックプラン (拡大計画) はT252556 でご紹介しています。 Android ロードマップ全体はこちらをご参照ください。

このプロジェクトページは Android を介したコミュニケーションの限界について知見が集まると更新し、モバイル機器によるコミュニケーションの優れた経験を学びつつコミュニティとの対話の成果を反映していきます。

現状では Android におけるコミュニケーション関連の機能として、記事と利用者のトークページ、ウォッチリストとコメントの Echo 通知が含まれます。これらの機能を提供する中で、これらを改善するべきでありロードマップでもコミュニケーションの時期に取り組むよう計画しています。

For the improvements to communication features portion of our roadmap, we will specifically partner with the following audiences:

English Wikipedia users/editors in India and Nigeria
Arabic and French Wikipedia users/editors in Morocco, Egypt, DR Congo and Mali
Hindi Wikipedia users/editors
Indonesian Wikipedia users/editors
Japanese Wikipedia

By explicitly partnering with these groups we will be able to determine if features impact different demographics in different ways and expose possible equity issues in our development. We will also evaluate how our features impact Android users overall, while being mindful of implications for cross platform users.

Despite having explicit partner groups define, we welcome feedback and partnership from all Android app users.

ロードマップ

通知

During this phase of our work, we will ensure that Notifications are easy to find and that the notification home center is comprehensive.

Completed

In-article notifications link [Complete]
System-level preferences [Complete]
Bell icon and red dot indicator [Complete]
Surfacing IP notifications
Refreshed notification home center with search and filter [Complete]

Messaging interface

Once we have confirmed that users are adequately aware of any notifications they have received from other editors or the system, we will focus on making sure users can easily start or reply to discussions in the app. It is important that the interface and workflows are comprehensive and easy to navigate for their given contexts and goals.

Proposed Features

@ mentions and ping [Complete]
More discoverable talk page entry points [Blocked]
Reading focus mode [Complete]
Customizable quick actions [Complete]
Visual distinction between article talk pages and user talk pages [Complete]
Ability to delete conversations [Complete]
Support for accessing project talk pages [Complete]
Ability to sort and search talk pages [Complete]
Improved performance [Complete]
Read and search archived conversations [Complete]
Smart Threading [Complete]
Topic subscriptions
Native Edit History and Contribution History [Complete]

Onboarding and guidance

The team will evaluate tooltips, system level notifications and onboarding to ensure the experience is helpful and properly timed.

Connecting communities and interests

This phase of our work is more experimental with the aim of connecting users based on shared interests, responsibly lowering barriers for meaningful collaboration, third party integration and platform parity that doesn't detract from a mobile first experience.

Proposed Features

Portal support [Blocked]
Campaign support
Mass mentions [Removed]
Mute notifications from identified users [Removed]
Community dashboard with the mentorship module attributes [Removed]
Third-party support

経過をフォローするには

Phabricator Epic として T273253 を作成、Android アプリのトークページに関して早期の改善を追跡し、本格的な分析につなげます。来年いっぱい使って改善に取り組むため初期リリースに基づく開発を進め、2021年4月 – 6月には Android 機器を使ったコミュニケーションを掘り下げて調査する予定もあり、皆さんからのフィードバックをお待ちしています。

更新情報

2024年2月

We now support full-page editing on Talk pages: T331936

2024年1月

HTML has been improved in native TextView when reviewing ordered lists, music notes, and code tags in talk pages.T347118

2023年10月

Talk pages now allow wikitext with highlighting. T343889

2023年4月

This month we made some minor improvements to notifications and talk pages. For example, when you click the View changes" button for talk page notifications it opens the diff in the app instead of the browser (T333369).

There was an issue where if a page was moved, you wouldn’t be able to see the diff, we’ve fixed that issue (T332173).

Redlinks and images are now shown in talk pages (T331299 and T332055).

Android app now accommodates global user preferences for watchling pages that are edited (T331503).

2023年3月

This month's work was focused on making sure the filters for the watchlist feature on the Android app are the same across all platforms. This change will make the user experience more consistent and less confusing when switching between different devices (T326648).

A bug was fixed in a particular version of the Android app. Previously, when users tried to share a specific topic from the discussion page of the "Goldfinger_(novel)", the shared link would lead back to the full discussion page, not the specific topic they wanted to share. Now, the shared link correctly opens the chosen topic (T329868).

2023年1月

We fixed “all namespaces” for Contributions to include Template and Wikipedia namespaces.T325130

2022年12月

You’re now sent directly to the talk page comment instead of scrolling T318829.
Answers are now cached when creating new talk page topics and replying T321269.
Updated the publish icon for new talk page topics and replies T321270.

Change ✓-icon/button to 'PUBLISH' label for new talk page topics and replies

2022年11月

We synthesized survey results from October that helped us learn what features Android app users found most helpful and desired T313222. Some highlights included:

You can now thank contributors from the diff view. T317698

2022年10月

The team improved edit summaries by adding links to help pages to describe what a minor edit, watch list and edit summary is. We chose to send people to Meta and MediaWiki to be inclusive of all languages T296952. We also added help links for article descriptions T315702.

Edit-summary in Wikipedia mobile app.

2022年9月

As we transition to other parts of our roadmap, our work on communications this month consists mostly of bug fixes specifically, we fixed bugs related to:

The format of a ping being broken when pressing enter when @ mentioning another user T317132.

Showing template styles contents in message preview T317415.

Pre-populating @ mentioning when replying to a comment from a user on their own talk page T315381.

Solving Talk page metadata inconsistencies in some pages T315400.

Linking to non-existent user pages from notifications and not displaying the appropriate error page. This also fixed the issue where the user name would sometimes be presented as null T315940.

2022年8月

As we are working to implement talk page enhancements, we updated the coffee roll to be more distinguishable from the rest of the topics on the discussion page, more details can be found in T310801.

We removed the duplication of the word user at the top of the screen T313890.

Removing the duplication of the word user at the top of the screen-Wikipedia's Android application

July 2022- Onboarding Survey details and minor bug fixes and enhancements

Onboarding Survey

The Android team ran an in-app survey to gain an understanding of which features may need onboarding or tooltips for exposure.

Why did we do this?

The Android team recently introduced a lot of new or enhanced functionality to the app. Watchlist, Talk pages, Revision history, and Notifications – to name a few of them.

We want to evaluate if the current onboarding tools are appropriate, as, over the years, onboarding methods have evolved or diverged.

With this work, we also want to get an overview of the available functionality, review and prioritize it, and examine if certain features need more or less discoverability or onboarding interventions. Improving assistance and guidance is part of our goal of enhancing the communication experience on Android from the perspective of enhancing the system’s communication with the user .

Who are we targeting?

We are targeting app users (newcomers) that have set their primary app language to:

Arabic

Hindi

Japanese

Indonesian

French

English

Ideally in our target regions for qualitative research:

India (English and Hindi)

Morocco, Egypt, DR Congo, and Mali (French & Arabic)

Nigeria (English)

Indonesia

Japan

What do we want to find out?

What features are people familiar with?

What features have people used?

What features do people use most often?

Which features are missing?

All of the above is in the context of the Wikipedia Android app.

How do we find out?

We will show a link to a Google Form survey in the app, similar to what we’ve done in T291850. The survey will be translated to AR, HI, ID, JA, and FR and shown to the audience defined in ”Who are we targeting?”

Minor Bug Fixes and Enhancements

-We worked on other enhancements and bug fixes like:

Improvements to talk pages:

Adding new entry points to access the article page and edit history with smooth clicks (T310804).

Users can now access archived talk page messages(T275917).

June 2022- Significant visual enhancements to Talk pages, Customizable Toolbar updates, Namespace Search addition and Revision History improvements

Significant Visual Enhancements to Talk Pages

The team released our most significant visual enhancements to talk pages. The first significant update was improvements to threading in the the user and article talk subject view (T303254):

Smart Threading- instead of a new indent being created each time someone replies, which can be hard to read on mobile devices after the fifth indent, Android users will now see collapsable threading with a line to indicate the continuation of a conversation.
Message Anatomy- when selecting a username, a dialog will pop up with destination options including a user talk page, user page, or user contributions. A reply to a user message is more clearly defined
Inline Replies- the floating action button to initiate a reply in the subject view has been removed and reply buttons are now nested under messages to enforce the behavior of people reading a message first, and then replying. This also makes it easier for people to determine at which level they’d like to reply.
Topic Subscriptions- is a new feature conceptualized by the Editing team based on their talk page consultations. The Android team brought the new feature into the app with this release. Android app users can now subscribe to conversations in order to receive a notification when a talk page thread has been updated
Find in Page- an option to find text in a page has been added to the overflow menu, and works the same as someone searching notifications (T307378)
Edit Source- due to technical limitations there was no easy way for us to allow users to “delete” a comment, an action common on most apps. To address this issue, we added an edit source option to the overflow menu, which will allow users to modify or delete a comment
Copy and Sharing- users can now copy text of a message to their clipboard via the overflow menu of a message, and we’ve added deep linking, so not only can someone share a thread, they can also share a specific message in a thread

The next significant update to talk pages on Android was making a visual distinction between user and article talk pages (T297617). The team decided to make user and article talk pages visually distinct in December 2021 based on a talk page survey and usability testing results. Preliminary designs were also shared in January 2022.

The visual distinctions between user and article talk pages include:

Header image- in the article talk page header users will see an image, when available from the article they were reading. This is to visually associate that the discussion for the talk page should be centered on edits to the article. User talk pages do not have an image in the header because it is very uncommon for user pages to have images and a user talk page can be used to discuss a wide array of things.
App Bar- while both talk page enhancements include additions to the app bar and overflow menu like watch, share and edit history, the app bar of the article talk page features a link to the article.
Metadata- to promote the concept of user talk pages being a space of general conversation, we display names of users for people to have an idea at a thread level who is involved in a talk page conversation. Alternatively, on article talk pages we do not show what users are involved in a topic before clicking through to the subject view. Emphasis for an article talk page is placed on the subject and how many people have replied to the thread.

Redesigned user talk page

Beyond these visual distinctions, there were other general updates added to talk pages like being able to sort by date published, date updated and topic name. We made a visual distinction in articles to templates so it could be seen as instructional. We also ensured users could easily navigate to an article from a talk page (T302148).

Customizable Toolbar

While working on Talk Page enhancements the Android team realized the addition of new features were not as discoverable and there was a growing difference in preference of what features were readily available in the toolbar. The team wrote about the process of developing customizable toolbar and reading focus mode in detail on Medium. Since the results of the A/B test revealed that our best course of action was to place the entry point to customize the toolbar in the overflow menu, our team has worked on tooltips to let Android app users know about the new feature (T306709).

AB Test of Customizable toolbar

Namespace Search

The team wanted to provide better support for project pages and portals in the app as a pathway to promote communication and collaboration in the application based on our Communication project goals. Due to constraints beyond the team’s control, we were unable to build the interface envisioned at this time but will revisit it at a later date. In the interim, we were able to make namespaces more discoverable. Many users in the app have not edited before and are not familiar with the concept of namespaces. We do have to balance revealing these wiki concepts and not disrupting the goal of readers to find articles to learn and share. As a middle ground for introducing this concept in a way that isn’t intrusive and within the confines of our technical constraints, the team appended namespaces to the search bar while ensuring there is multilingual support for the feature (T308750).

Namespace appended to search bar

Related to search, the team fixed a bug where recent searches were missing (T311320).

Revision History

While conducting work for Communications improvements, the team built native Revision History. The full details can be found under the May updates on the Communications project page. In the first release of native revision history the undo button and rollback button was hidden behind a feature flag. This allowed the team to work out the color contrast to ensure it was compliant for color blind users, while balancing not promoting the behavior of selecting undo in a way that could become harmful (T303547). Additionally, we took the time to think through a confirmation page for undo and rollback.

If a user does not have rollback permissions they will observe an undo button next to the thanks button. If a user has rollback privileges, they will see the rollback button in place of undo, and undo will be nested in the overflow menu with share edit and watch. We moved the undo button to the overflow menu for rollbackers to accommodate people that may have small screens.

We also added a search and filtering function to the revision history page (T299234) to create parity with the web.

Android app diff view with undo button
Android app screen with rollback button

Big Fixes and UX improvements

We also fixed some minor bugs and UX improvements to edit notices, user pages, talk pages and contribution history pages:

Fixed a bug where talk pages weren’t opening correctly after opening an in-article link with an anchor (T310562).
Updated icons in contribution history to be more accurate based on contribution type (T308755)
Made user page error message more specific (T295071)
Contribution history button in Suggested edits was cut off (T3098650)
Properly handle TemplateStyles editnotices (T3096810)

Hide editing calls to action when Reading focus mode is enabled (T307373)

May 2022 – Release of Revision History and Customizable Toolbar User Testing Results

We released Native Revision History which included the ability to filter by edit type, select two revisions in order to go to a diff screen, and an ability to view the statistics of an article's edit history.

The team fixed an issue with REST endpoints not handling requests from ka.wikipedia.org with Georgian titles (T301600). We fixed an issue where the wrong tab preview would sometimes be displayed (T305912). There was performance issues with updating the name and description of reading lists that we addressed (T305555). We also improved syncing of reading lists across OS mobile devices (T301744).

Results of customizable toolbar testing (T302883):

We’re going to move forward with Variant B, as expected usage of the feature is low, and to have one more shortcut in the toolbar.
Most participants mentioned that they would not use the feature often; that’s why we keep changes to the existing version minimal (see T306709 for action items). We keep the way shortcuts are ordered (see the production version of the app).
Similar to the debates we had in the team, there is no clear winner out of the two variants. The preference depends on what people are used to in the services/apps they use.
We evaluate that the advantage of having space for another item in the toolbar in variant B outweighs the slightly better discoverability and the significant engineering effort of A.

Customizable Toolbar Variants

Summary and recommendations:

6 out 10 participants prefer variant A, for the following reasons:
- Overflow menu at the top reminds him of an internet page, would not go to look for it at the top if it wasn’t indicated, the bottom variant is less confusing, would be ok with B as well.
- “It’s awesome”, ****it was easier to understand and find.
- Likes this version better as it consolidate options in one place at the bottom.
- The options are closer together, it works very well, people would benefit from the feature, maybe grouping could be helpful?.
- It’s easy to understand how to find the customize option, is confused by variant B.
- Expects the customization of the toolbar where the toolbar is, realizes that you loose 1 item in the toolbar in this version, but “you really don’t need more than 4 in the toolbar”.
4 out 10 participants prefer variant B, for the following reasons:
- Literally suggested variant B during his test, prefers 1 more item in the toolbar, gives more flexibility.
- One more link the bottom toolbar, a lot of people have a habit to click at the top menu to look for things.
- It’s similar to Google Chrome.
Most participants would not use the feature often. Here are reasons:
- Would probably customize his toolbar just once or twice, and wouldn’t regularly use it again even though it’s a really good feature.
- Would use the feature 2-3 times and thinks it would improve the experience.
- Would use it once.
- Thinks that not everyone would use the feature since a lot of people would use the default settings (20% of people would use it).
- Would not change her links very often, maybe change it 1 or 2 time thing. (every few months), will likely need time to find out which are her favorites.
- Would not use the feature that often, e.g. once a month or more, is confused by variant B.
- Wouldn’t use it a lot, just uses it to switch the theme, only uses the ‘Language’ and ‘Find in page’ feature.
- Wouldn’t mess with it too much but would use it until she figured out her preferences.

April 2022 – Addition of Categories

In 2016, the community requested to add categories into the app via the 2016 Community Wishlist. This request resurfaced again in 2022, and during a team inspiration week our Lead Engineer, DBrant, developed a prototype. After rounds of design improvements and additional product requirements, we released access to Categories and Sub Categories in the app.

Category View
View once a Category is clicked
View of Subcategories

The team removed the tooltip for notifications because it was clashing with other tooltips and our team is about to revamp onboarding and tooltips holistically (T303975).

We fixed bugs that related to menus not being able to open while in split screen mode (T305346).

March 2022 – Sort and Search on Talk Pages, Starting Onboarding project, Testing Reading Focus Mode and Customizable Toolbar

During our March releases we started incremental updates to talk pages ahead of the refresh. The updates included search and sort at the topic level. Users are able to sort by Topic, date updated and date published.

Talk Page Sort and Search V1

In March the team started initial research to improve onboarding and guidance in the app. It was clear from our research for other features and requests made through the play store for features that existed in the app that improvements needed to be made to exposing features at the right time. Our first step for these improvements was to take stock of our existing onboarding prompts and tooltips.

Inventory of Onboarding prompts in Android

In January we created the first version of Reading Focus Mode. Before releasing reading focus mode to production we wanted to ensure users were able to successfully turn reading focus mode off in order to edit. As we tested reading focus mode we also evaluated the usability of the customizable toolbar.

Observations

What works?

1. Onboarding / language

   - Tooltip is displayed for all participants
   - One candidate (FR) appreciated the full screen onboarding when editing article descriptions for the first time. This should be explored further in onboarding and guidance phase ([T301397](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301397))

2. Reading focus mode

   - Reading focus mode disabled by default as participants learned how it works
   - 4/5 understood what the reading focus mode setting does, understood differences when the mode is enabled
   - 5/5 had no issues going back to editing after turning on reading focus mode
   - 4/5 like the ‘Reading focus mode’ feature

3. Customize toolbar

   - Once arrived in the customization screen, 5/5 understood what the screen does.
   - 5/5 figured out how to drag&drop items (but 3/5 were dragging the labels first)

What doesn’t work?

1. General / Onboarding / Language

   - Tooltip wasn’t noticed by 4/5, participants scrolled and the tooltip disappeared

2. Reading focus mode

   - Likely related to the tooltip that disappeared → 3/5 participants had issues discovering the ‘Reading focus mode’ setting

3. Customize toolbar - Language: ‘actions and destinations’ in the task was confusing to almost all participants

 - All participants had issues finding ‘Customize toolbar’ 
 - Interaction: 3/5 participants wanted to drag&drop the label on the customization screen in order to move items.
 - 3/5 had issues finding items in the overflow menu after moving them out of the toolbar (they had troubles making a connection between the toolbar and overflow menu)

Based on the observations, we are considering the following changes to version 1 reading focus mode and customizable toolbar. 1. Onboarding / language

   - Keep onboarding tooltips visible when scrolling. Only proactively tapping “GOT IT” should dismiss the tooltip.

2. Reading focus mode

   - Make sure the Reading focus mode setting completely hides edit pencils, without having to refresh the screen (some participants experienced this)
   - `ADD ARTICLE DESCRIPTION`, `ADD IMAGE CAPTION`, `ADD IMAGE TAGS` CTA’s should be hidden when reading focus mode is enabled

3. Customize toolbar

   - Make sure the entire list item is draggable not only the icon on the right. Alternative concepts if this is not feasible:
       - Show a tooltip when users try to drag and drop the label instead of the icon
       - If tooltip does not improve the situation → consider moving towards a pattern that does not rely on drag on dropping
   - Terminology: Users don’t get the current wording ‘Actions and Destinations’, change the copy of the detail screen to: `Customize the bottom toolbar with 5 quick links you find most helpful.`
   - Discovery and usability (T302397)

- Add an additional, sixth ‘More’ menu item to the bottom toolbar, since the feature is hard to discover within 'Theme' at the moment. - Move items from the overflow menu in the app bar (top right) to a bottom sheet that is triggered by the newly added sixth 'More' item in the toolbar.

There were a number of bugs we fixed which included ensuring the content side bar reflected the proper positioning (T301074), showing the language code for language variants that are unnamed (T301919), long press menu not properly displaying "Define" and "Edit" (T302078z), and Wikibooks to Wikipedia works on mobile (T303123).

February 2022 – @Mentions, Native Revision history, Article and User Talk Page mockups, Customizable Toolbar and Reading Focus Mode Release

During our February releases we made minor improvements to talk pages for more and better functions.

The improvements includes a drop-down menu when users click a username that lets them choose if they want to go to a user talk page or user page.

We understand that some users may want to see who they are communicating with before sending a talk page message, whereas other users would like to go directly to a talk page; we hope that this release allows that flexibility.

Users are now able to edit talk pages as wikitext now, which is important for users that may post an error or typo in their talk page message and want to delete or modify it.

We also added a pattern to replies that pre-populates the user you are replying to on talk pages when hitting reply.

Users are also able to use the @ symbol to mention another user instead of having to use brackets and write out ping.

Additionally, when pressing @ and starting to type a name, the app provides a drop-down menu of user names.

We hope this change will make mentioning other users easier for Android users and also serves to ensure the person they are replying to receives a notification (T297912).

New @ mention functionality

Last year the team released Watchlist, which introduced native diff views to the Android app. To build on this feature our designer created mockups for native revision history, something requested in the community wishlist. The engineers have started developing revision history. While we have started developing the feature we welcome feedback from the community regarding the latest designs of native edit history on our talk page or on Phabricator. We are especially interested to know if it would be helpful to allow filtering by tags, and how prominent the undo button should be. Please keep in mind undo is not the same as rollback, which means all users will see the undo button. We are also considering adding a rollback button for users that have those permissions.

Diff View of Native Revision History

Revision History Comparing Diffs

In December 2021 we shared the mockups of Reading Focus Mode and the Customizable Toolbar. The team released both features in February and conducted user testing. The detailed results of the test can be found on Phabricator. The most notable results were:

Users understood how to turn reading mode off and on if they desired to make an edit
It was difficult to discover reading mode and the customizable toolbar with it being nested in Theme
Users had difficulty finding theme once they moved it out of the toolbar
It wasn't obvious to use the side icons to rearrange the toolbar

For that reason, the team will rethink our onboarding to these features through the next phase of our work, which is onboarding and guidance. Additionally we will add a more link in the toolbar, which is where users can access the customizable toolbar feature. We would also appreciate feedback on if we should use checkboxes to allow users to select what links are in their toolbar to address the difficulty people had with dragging an icon.

Existing Customizable Toolbar Experience

Proposed alternative for customizable toolbar

This month we took the feedback and learnings from previous months about how we should improve talk pages in the app and developed the following mockups:

Current user talk page experience
Proposed user talkpage
Proposed User talk page sort function
Current article talk page
Proposed article talk page
Current threading behavior
Proposed threading

One of the changes you will notice is that user talk pages and article talk pages are visually different. On the user talk page we display some of the most recent message at the subject view level and conversely for the article view we show the subjects and not any of the metadata from the message. The intention behind this difference is to make the user talk page feel more conversational and visually indicate the article topics are meant to discuss article edits. To further connect the article talk page topics to the article, we will display an image from the article in the header of article talk pages. User talk pages will show the name of the most recent person that has posted to indicate that the space is conversational amongst users and not necessarily article specific.

Previously there wasn't a visual distinction for template messages that often share helpful context and policy for article talk pages, in our proposed designs we drew inspiration from Desktop by distinguishing the top most template message from other talk page topics. In both article and user talk pages, users will be able to view archived messages in the app and subscribe to threads in order to receive notifications when someone has posted an updated to a talk page thread of interest.

We also changed the way users reply and read threads. Replies to a thread were at the same level and indicated with a reply icon. In our new designs, users can expand and collapse replies and we will now support inline replies. Additionally, whereas in the past users replied using a floating action button, with the addition of inline replies, reply actions will be under each post.

This month we also fixed a number of bugs which included improving audio and media file support. There were also bugs fixed related to the article layout on this day and making the article doesn't close out when returning from webview. The confusion between Chinese language variant codes has been fixed in T298448. Long references on small screens are now fully viewable T298269.

Finishing our work on notifications, there was a back end issue where notifications weren't being properly associated with the right place in a talk page. As of February, talk page notifications take you to the right place in the discussion T296018.

January 2022 – Talk page discoverability exploration, exposing project talk pages and accessibility report

In January we continued our work on enhancing talk pages by exploring pathways to make accessing talk pages more discoverable without it being intrusive. Our explorations for discoverability took into consideration the feedback we received in November and December from new and experienced users. Now that the Android app has Reading mode, a feature where users can hide editing features, when reading mode is off, users will see a talk page bubble that shows the number of active discussions for an article. Once a user clicks the talk bubble they will view a preview in a side panel of the active discussion topics. Users will be able to expand the side panel or click a topic to see the full view of the article talk page. The work can be tracked at phab:T298814] and phab:T299033.

Talk Page Preview via Side Panel

As described in T295071, when a user clicked on a username that doesn't have a profile page an error message popped up reading "This page does not exist" with the option to dismiss, which wasn't helpful and was a different experience than Desktop. The team updated the error message to provide more context and it is now more aligned with Desktop experiences.

User error before

User error after

The team made various tweaks to the app to improve accessibility, which was written about in detail by one of the Android app developers, Cooltey Feng. One of the outstanding items to address as a result of the report is if our experience for users with screenreaders should be improved or standard. The team is looking to consult screenreader users to conduct an evaluation of the app experience and provide feedback. Please comment on our talk page or email android-support@wikimedia.org if you can provide feedback on the app experience while using a screenreader.

Previously when users navigated to project pages in the app, talk page links were broken. As of our January release project talk pages can be properly accessed in the app.

December 2021 – Talk page survey results (experienced users), IP notifications and reading focus mode

As a follow-up to the survey from new users the team investigated ways to improve. One investigation included investigating the possibility of not using the RestBase endpoint for retrieving talk pages and instead using the regular MediaWiki API to get better talk page performance. As detailed in T295687, our team is unable to do so at this time because it requires an improvement of the performance of change propagation and/or cache updates of the REST endpoint. We have put in a request for backend teams to pick this up with the hopes of faster talk page performance in the future.

The team discovered that talk page notifications do not always lead users to the right subject line, rather it takes them to the general talk page. This bug was caused by changes to the DiscussionTools project. The team has been collaborating with the Editing team to fix this bug and the work is documented in T296018. As of December 15, 2021, unregistered editors in the Android app will receive talk page notifications T291481, which is important for reaching anonymous editors.

Users are now able to filter notifications by Wiki and notification type in the home center T294035, while also accessing settings to update preferred language settings in the filter view.

To help collaboration, users can now see their notifications even while offline T287955.

In October the team launched a survey to learn about the desires of experienced users for their talk pages experience in the Android app. We specifically surfaced the survey in the app to English Wikipedia talk page users in Nigeria and India, Arabic and French Wikipedia talk page users in DR Congo, Mali, Morocco and Egypt, as well as Japanese Wikipedia editors and Hindi Wikipedia Editors and received responses from 54 participants. The full results can be found at the bottom of the protocol page. The key takeaways from this survey was that users believe talk pages need better onboarding and education on how to use them and the distinction between article and user talk pages. There were requests for comprehensive communication flows when edit changes occur, and easier ways for users to seek assistance. Users requested an ability to share talk pages, which has been implemented in T295808. The lack of talk page discoverability in the article view was further highlighted in this survey. Respondents to the survey expressed the importance of encouraging users to review an article talk page when making an edit. It was highlighted that users involved in a talk page message should be pinged when someone has replied to them, which doesn't currently happen unless the user replying puts in the ping command for the user they would like to reach. Further, positive reinforcement and support for deleting and archiving messages that are no longer relevant were also surfaced as desired features.

What was very evident in our research was the flexibility needed so that our users unique needs are met when they are reading an article and prefer not to see editing tools compared to when they may want to edit and have a desire for specific editing tools or talk pages. With the requests for flexibility in mind, the team will release and test a customizable toolbar, which will allow users to choose which quick actions appear in the bottom bar in article view versus which things should go to the overflow menu and reading focus mode, a feature that hides the bottom quick actions toolbar on scroll as well as the edit pencils and call to actions. Reading mode will be off by default but accessible via Themes. The team will ensure users are able to recall how to turn read mode off so that we don't impede anyone's ability to edit.

November 2021 – Talk page survey results (new users), EditNotices and release of notifications home center

Building on the work we did to notifications last month, our team improved the notifications home center by adding [phab:T288068|search and filter]] functionality. We also improved the readability of the home center and added a new tabs called mentions, which includes all notifications that are generated by an action from other users, the categorization follows the policy that defines mention notification types.

The team ran phab:T2933447a usability test of our existing talk page experience on usertesting.com with new users to understand how discoverable talk pages are and if users understand how to differentiate between user and article talk pages. Additionally, we wanted to know what elements work well even in low context. Finally, we hoped to identify possible opportunities for improvements that we could surface to experienced users in the survey we ran in app. Our test users edited on Arabic, French, Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese Wikipedia.

From the test we learned the following things worked:

Users understood how to create new topics and reply to threads
Participants mostly understood that the article messages were from other users.
Participants described what a revert is, in their own words, well
Link in the footer: Some participants accessed talk pages via the link in the footer intuitively
Discovery of notifications: the work on the new placement for notifications paid off, people had no issues discovering the bell icon

From the test we learned the following things do not work well in our existing experience:

Users had a difficult time finding the link to article talk pages in the overflow menu, some participants tapped the edit pencil to access talk pages
There was a slow performance when attempting to submit on when using talk pages on Japanese Wikipedia
Users didn't understand the distinction between how to use article talk pages and user talk pages
There was a disorientation when tapping items within notifications home and navigating to Commons talk pages
Lack of understanding for the diff view and of edit summaries
At times there were no active keyboard and the reply button was missing

Based on the results of the test, the team generated investigative tasks, which can be found linked to this epic on Phabricator.

We fixed some bugs which includes presenting edit notices and fixing a bug where users lost their open tabs.

October 2021 – Outcomes of the ABC test, more updates to notifications and the launch of talk pages work

Last month we conducted research to understand how to improve the notifications experience for our users. Our goal was to ensure people are accurately receiving important messages from other users and the system, and able to understand and engage with the messages they receive. In last month's update we shared the outcomes of our qualitative research. We now have the outcomes of our ABC test where we evaluated which iconography and placement of said iconography in the app would best improve discoverability of notifications.

By changing the placement of the notifications iconography from the overflow more menu to the top navigation bar we saw an increase in interactions by 121.4%. The activity data was isolated by a seven day average of daily unique users. We further evaluated the impact on our target user groups to ensure our decision making is equitable. Based on this evaluation we saw an increase in interactions by 102.19% for users in Nigeria and India using English Wikipedia, 108.90% for users in Morocco, Egypt, DR Congo, and Mali on French and Arabic Wikipedia, 77.23% for Hindi Wikipedia users, 74.07% for Indonesian Wikipedia users, 147.83% for Japanese Wikipedia users. Based on this information, we made a final decision of ensuring the notifications icon lived in the top bar.

Our next test evaluated if our existing more icon, bell icon or the inbox icon would yield more clicks. Our data indicated the inbox had the highest level of clicks overall and across user groups, the bell icon was the next most favorable icon, followed by more. However, within our target user groups, Indonesian Wikipedia editors and Hindi Wikipedia editors, marginally clicked the more icon over the bell icon. Although the inbox was most favorable, when compared to our qualitative feedback, we learned that users expected to enter an actual inbox when clicking an inbox, and the bell icon was more closely associated with notifications. Additionally, across other platforms, the bell icon is being used to indicate notifications, so for the sake of parity and to not confuse users, our team chose the bell icon.

The next phase of our communication work is to improve the talk page experience in the Android app. While we currently have talk pages, it is important that the experience graduates from functional for experienced users to easy to use by all users, especially those that may need to use them the most. In order to better learn what gaps exist, we are launching two surveys. One survey will be conducted on usertsting.com with new users, so that we may learn what gaps exist for users that may be new to the Android app. You can find that protocol on Phabricator. The other will be for more experienced users that have visited and used talk pages in the Android app before. You may view the survey for experienced users at Wikimedia Apps/Team/Android/Communication/UsertestingOctober2021 and answer questions on talk page.

We also made minor upgrades which included improving how we handle the topmost welcome message on user talk pages, which can be reviewed on Phabricator.

September 2021 - In-app notifications and survey results

The outcomes of the qualitative survey collecting feedback about Notifications can be found on the protocol page.

Through our qualitative research we learned:

The top right positioning of the notification icon was most popular
The bell icon was most closely associated with notifications. While the inbox tray was a popular choice, it was associated with messages and notifications span beyond human-to-human contact
Users were in favor of having a mention tab in the Notifications Home Center
Users generally found filtering capabilities within the notifications home center important
There was a request for more context for reverts

To compliment the qualitative feedback we've received, the team launched an ABC test to get the final quantitative confirmation of how the discoverability of notifications changes if a bell icon is used in the top right hand corner when compared to the more and inbox tray. The initial details are available in Phabricator via ticket T290995.

As requested by the community and based on the survey feedback the team made notifications more discoverable in the article view.

The final iconography will be decided in October after our ABC test.

In addition, the team released the following minor updates:

An ability to to delete individual items in recent searches phab:T276770
Enable users to undo a talk page message a few seconds after posting and return to edit mode to make changes phab:T287594
Expose the last time a talk page has been edited so that users can easily review the edit history phab:T274836 and phab:T287593

August 2021 - Minor bug fixes

In August, the engineers focused primarily on tech debt and bug fixes raised by users as the rest of the team processed feedback from the community to turn them into features.

26 July 2021 - User testing notifications placement and workflows

The team is requesting feedback about potential changes to notification placement in the Android app and the subsequent workflows. Please visit the user testing protocol on MediaWiki and share your feedback on the talk page.

2021年7月12日 - トークページの認識しやすさの向上

Android アプリでは現状、すべての通知と警告をサポートしています。

しかしながら、アプリ使用中に通知を探すのは簡単ではありませんでした。2021-2022年会計年度の目標として、このユーザー体験を改善するつもりです。

2021年7月-同9月期の更新ではアプリ内の通知の探しやすさを高め、ロック画面で通知を表示できるようにします。予定としては2021年12月までに通知ホームセンターを導入、直感的に使えるインボックスとインターフェースを設置します。 Android のシステム要素との統合を意識し、プラットフォームに置く機能のなじみやすさと使いやすさを盛り込んで設計とビルドを実施します。

2021年7月から同12月期にフォーカスする対象はログイン利用者で1回以上の編集を行った人たちとしますが、以前の数ヵ月にわたり進めてきた作業を基盤に、ログアウトした利用者が警告に気づくよう2022年の年初実現を目指します。ログアウトした利用者には、（アカウント登録へ導くため）コミュニケーションツールにオンボード体験の取り入れを試みる予定です。これは他のログアウトした利用者を対象とする肯定的な定着促進と登録勧誘のワークフローに追加する位置づけです。

2021年5月10日 - エラー処理メッセージの更新

アプリ内のエラーメッセージ処理に関してチームでいくつか更新を実施、数週間後には製品に導入の予定です。変更点の詳細はT170726、T276142、T276139を参照してください。

さらに改善をするべきと認識しており、現状でこれら改善点はリリースにふさわしいとのフィードバックを活用し、今後も Android のエラーメッセージの処理法とコミュニケーションシステムの改善を進めます。

スパム検知の改善

不正使用通知の処理

IP ブロック通知の拡張

記事保護の拡張

2021年3月30日 - ネーティブのトークページならびにウォッチリストの更新

さまざまな役務者との協調により、最近の導入によるトークページとウォッチリストを評価、改善の可能性を探りました。直近のリリースで下記の変更を実施しています。

再読み込みしたとき、返信ボタンがメッセージ作成欄の邪魔にならないようにすること。
記事のトークページへのリンクを記事の下部ではなくドロップダウンメニューに収容、記事のドロップダウンからウォッチリストが開くようにアクセスを追加
「この記事について」欄の長さを調節、目次一覧でもっと目立つ長さにまとめる。
トークページの投稿の題名を囲み形式に

今後、改善を検討している対象は以下を含みます。

インラインな返信が節の最下部ではなく、その行に表示されるようにする。
- 依存条件：API はバックエンドチームが担当
トークページの未読の項目を示す青い丸印のデザイン変更もしくは再検討。
特定のトークページの最終の変更履歴を明示。
ウォッチリストならびにトークページの使い方入門を作る。

2021年2月2日 - ウォッチリストとトークページの実装

Android 版ウィキペディア・アプリの最新版リリースはGoogle Play ストアに上がり、盛り上がっています (Google 未導入の機器向けにはスタンドアローンのダウンロードをご提供。) この更新の主なハイライトは次の通りです。

ウォッチリスト：ログインするとメインの画面からウォッチリストを開けるようになりました。メイン画面下部の "More" メニュー > "Watchlist." と進んでください。アプリで多言語を選んである場合、複数言語のウォッチリストを1本にまとめて表示します。また画面上部のツールバーでアイコンをタップすると表示する言語版を指定できます。ウォッチリストの項目をタップ、その更新版の詳しい差分を閲覧できます。もちろん、閲覧中の記事をウォッチリストに追加するには、ツールバーの上段右上 > "ウォッチチリストに追加" で指定できます。
トークページ：記事トークページと利用者トークページの表示はネーティブになりました。記事を閲覧したときトークページを開くには、ページ下部へスクロール > "トークページを表示" と進みます。他の利用者自身のトークページは利用者とのやりとりが発生するさまざまな場所からも開けるので、たとえば利用者自身のウォッチリスト、さまざまなプッシュ通知の受信時（例：利用者自身のトークページに誰かが投稿）、あるいは記事トークページや他の利用者のトークページからも自分自身のトークページを開くことができます。

上記の大がかりな更新に加え、今回のリリースはバグ修正やデザインの手直し、パフォーマンスの最適化を多数盛り込みました。ぜひ実際に使って、毎度のことですがフィードバックをお待ちしています。特にウォッチリストの反響は Phabricator のタスク T273254 で、同じくトークページ関連は T273253. で募集します。このトークページでも投稿を受け付けます。

特記事項：この更新版は私たちの同僚で友人の故ベルンド・シッツマンを追憶したものです。故人は優れた開発者で人柄も素晴らしくアプリが今日の姿になり得たのもひとえに故人のおかげです。ご冥福を祈ります。

2018年12月 - Echo 通知を Android に導入

Android チームは2018年に、Echo 通知の導入に取り掛かりました。プロジェクト終了時期には、以下の種類の通知が実装されました。

システム- システム発の通知
マイルストン- 到達した編集回数
感謝- 受信者の編集に対する感謝
差し戻し- One- of 受信者の編集のうち、どれかが差し戻された
トークページ- トークページからの通知
ログイン- 受信者のログインの動き
言及- 受信者がどこかのページで言及された

さらにくわえて、チームは投票の通知を実装、アプリが新規通知をバックグラウンドで確認するため、データの使用を許可しました。2021年4月時点では、この機能は既定では無効です。

プッシュ通知の制限

本来の実施アプラーチでは、リアルタイムのプッシュ通知がうまく作動しない既知の問題があります。これらの制限が原因で、通知は最大10分遅延しています。

Androidの通知オプション