Wikimedia Mobile engineering/Brainstorm

This page is intended to be a whiteboard for requests and feature ideas for future mobile contribution projects.

Tasks edit

Task suggestion edit

  1. Requested task from funnel of requests (e.g., "someone suggested this plot summary is too detailed - do you agree?", "is this the right description for this image?")

Task assignment edit

  1. Mini-game (e.g., "disambiguate/wikify/categorize these three sentences/articles!")

Curation edit

Page and vandalism patrol edit

  1. Clean, mobile-friendly versions of NewPages Feed or Huggle

Image curation edit

  1. Category as gallery - add/remove images, tag images

Power watchlist edit

  1. Quick diff display and revert functionality
  2. Revision-level feedback (e.g., +1 an edit)

Comments edit

Casual communication edit

  1. Simplified article and/or user talk page functionality
  2. Notifications for user talk edits
  3. Streamlined commenting system on talk pages and community discussion spaces (e.g, Village pumps, noticeboards)
  4. Wikilove

Article feedback edit

  1. Request a task for funnel (see #Task suggestion)
  2. Mobile AFT
  3. Article feedback moderation (upvote/downvote/flag feedback)

Power reader tools edit

Watchlist annotation edit

  1. Annotate/save to-do items within article for later editing
  2. Annotate/save articles to watch/improve later

Nearby edit

  1. Add location to content
  2. Notifications when nearby content needs image/article

Social features edit

  1. Sharing content (articles, images)
  2. Sharing a task (e.g., request image for an article from friends/contacts)
  3. Personalized content collections (e.g., "my galleries," "my favorites")
  4. Contact a Wikipedian (e.g., request help, a copyedit, peer review, etc.)

Content creation edit

  1. Image upload
  2. Create a stub
  3. Sentence-level editing

Other edit

Social network leveraging edit

  1. Use profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to determine relevancy and expertise for editing

Citations edit

  1. Citation templates auto-populated from ISBN (manual entry or photo)

See also edit