Wikimedia Mobile engineering/Brainstorm
This page is intended to be a whiteboard for requests and feature ideas for future mobile contribution projects.
TasksEdit
Task suggestionEdit
- 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 assignmentEdit
- Mini-game (e.g., "disambiguate/wikify/categorize these three sentences/articles!")
CurationEdit
Page and vandalism patrolEdit
- Clean, mobile-friendly versions of NewPages Feed or Huggle
Image curationEdit
- Category as gallery - add/remove images, tag images
Power watchlistEdit
- Quick diff display and revert functionality
- Revision-level feedback (e.g., +1 an edit)
CommentsEdit
Casual communicationEdit
- Simplified article and/or user talk page functionality
- Notifications for user talk edits
- Streamlined commenting system on talk pages and community discussion spaces (e.g, Village pumps, noticeboards)
- Wikilove
Article feedbackEdit
- Request a task for funnel (see #Task suggestion)
- Mobile AFT
- Article feedback moderation (upvote/downvote/flag feedback)
Power reader toolsEdit
Watchlist annotationEdit
- Annotate/save to-do items within article for later editing
- Annotate/save articles to watch/improve later
NearbyEdit
- Add location to content
- Notifications when nearby content needs image/article
Social featuresEdit
- Sharing content (articles, images)
- Sharing a task (e.g., request image for an article from friends/contacts)
- Personalized content collections (e.g., "my galleries," "my favorites")
- Contact a Wikipedian (e.g., request help, a copyedit, peer review, etc.)
Content creationEdit
- Image upload
- Create a stub
- Sentence-level editing
OtherEdit
Social network leveragingEdit
- Use profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to determine relevancy and expertise for editing
CitationsEdit
- Citation templates auto-populated from ISBN (manual entry or photo)