Wikistories for Wikipedia/2022-23 Status Updates

April to June 2023

June 2023

• Product Improvements:
  • Share feature
    • T303022 Share a Wikistory
  • Image/ Visual / Text Enhancements
    • T296784 Reposition an image on a story page
    • T328906 Improve story text selection
  • Wikistories Moderation features
    • T330076 Handle deletion of article with associated stories
    • T329898 Treating repeated text on Wikistories
    • T329298 Edit summary field on publish story form
    • T337304 checkbox “Delete associated stories?” on article deletion form
• Community activities:
  • In person and hybrid Wikistories training events facilitated by the Wikistories Product ambassador for the Indonesian Wikipedia community.

May 2023

• Product Improvements:
  • Wikistories Checkbox styling
  • Adding a watchlist checkbox on wikistories
• Community Engagements:
  • Share feature discussion with the Indonesian Wikimedia community

April 2023

1. Product Improvements:
   • Checking degree of changes made on wiki story text during story creation
   • Recent changes propagation from wikistories to articles
2. Community Engagements:
   • Through the voting process, the Wikistories Editorial policy proposal has been accepted by the community and would guide the use of the Wikistories tool in Indonesian Wikipedia.

January to March 2023

March 2023

1. Product Improvements:
   • Ability to categorize wikistories
   • Adding a watchlist checkbox on wikistories
   • Improve the handling of the error about not finding a page when creating a Wikistory
   • Add a confirmation popup in story builder on reload or exit
2. Community Engagements:
   • The Indonesian Wikipedia community rounded up discussions on the draft Wikistories Policies and guidelines. The next stage would be the voting process of accepting the draft as a Wikistories editorial policy in Indonesian Wikipedia.

February 2023

1. Product Improvement:
   • On the "Read More" screen, tapping back does not go back to the last story frame.
   • Remove navigation elements from article view
   • Hide images from article view during text selection
2. Community Engagements:
   • The Indonesian Wikipedia community members have started discussions on the draft Wikistories Policies and guidelines; the Feedback is beginning to guide improvements around the editorial practices.

January 2023

1. Product Improvements:
   • Story Builder navigation (browser back button)
   • Text area on Wikistories is shortened in Firefox.
2. Community Engagements:
   • The Inuka team has started to prioritize the Policy & Guidelines work based on feedback from the Out of Beta RFC, Mediawiki talkpage and office hours sessions.
   • As the facilitator of the Wikistories editorial policy draft, the product ambassador announced plans to start the policy draft discussions on 14th February and posted a call for volunteers to join the Wikistories policy collaborative work.
   • The Inuka team had a co-creation session on 28th January with 5 Wikimedia Indonesian community members on a possible text-first workflow for Wikistories to get the communities' initial feedback on the proposed workflow design and for further explorations.

October to December 2022

December 2022

1. Product Improvements:
   • Re-position an image on a story page
   • Story Builder navigation (browser back button)
   • Allow story readers to change text size
   • On a story viewer, improve the design of read next story option
2. Qualitative Research:
   • Final report of the wikistories research can be found on Meta: Research:Wikistories Early Adopters Research and on Commons: Final Report (Reader).pdf and Final Report (Editor+Creator).pdf.
3. Partnerships:
   • The Paperclip team published a series of 4 stories on Twitter and their website themed around Football, during the World Cup season. This collaborative effort with The Paperclip aims to help understand curation and storytelling for Wikistories. The content is being exclusively sourced from Wikipedia articles, relevant citations and images from Commons.
     • A long standing record of English Football and a heritage ghat of Kolkata
     • What does the shirt of this Brazilian football club reveal about 15th century Calicut?
     • How an orphan boy from Benares went on to score a goal in the FA Cup final
     • How a refugee from Rangoon became a goal-machine like no other

November 2022

1. Product Improvements:
   • T314582 Make Wikistories configurable for public release
   • T313541 Allow story readers to change text size
   • T310329 Improve the design of read next story option
2. Community Engagements:
   • After organizing offline workshops in 5 cities in Indonesia: Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Denpasar, Bandung, and Padang, Wikimedia Indonesia held an online workshop on November 4th 2022 via Zoom with 10 participants attending.
   • Indonesian OpenGLAM Conference happened on November 5-6th 2022 with 28 people from GLAM institutions from Indonesia.
   • The Inuka team shared  their plans after the voting result on enabling the Wikistories tool permanently in Indonesian Wikipedia. One of the plans is to expose created stories to anonymous users and retain the story creations and editing to beta.
3. Qualitative Research:
   • Completed Wikistories moderated research with readers, contributors and creators to better understand users' experience when interacting with the Wikistories tool.; FloLab (the research firm) will be sharing the final report soon.  
4. Partnerships:
   • The Inuka team announced a collaboration between Paperclip and WMF (Inuka team) to help us understand how short stories can be curated from long-form Wikipedia articles and images from Commons; as we improve the experience for the Wikistories tool. Starting December, Paperclip team will be creating 4 stories that have an interesting blend of football and documented history, all sourced entirely from knowledge available on Wikimedia projects. Attribution for the Wikipedia articles and media used in these stories will be cited as per current Wikimedia policies and Brand guidelines.

October 2022

1. Product Improvements:
   • T318627 Background glitch when opening Story Viewer
   • T308255 Have a way to provide feedback about Wikistories in the StoryBuilder and/or StoryViewer
   • T310038 Improve Wikistories text display for readers and creators
2. Community Engagements:
   • Concluded the Wikistories GLAM competition in Indonesia with 386 stories created and 900+ photos added to Commons by participants.
   • The 5th Wikistories Community offline campaign in Indonesia held in Denpasar on the 8th of October.
   • The opinion request and voting to enable Wikistories permanently in Indonesian Wikipedia has been concluded; there were:
     1. 7 votes to enable it
     2. 8 votes to hold-on on the enablement
   • The Inuka team has announced their plans to delay permanently enabling the Wikistories tool in Indonesian Wikipedia based on the voting outcome. At the same time, they will continue to improve the tool and consider enabling it as a beta feature in other Wikis interested in it.
   • Engaged with the Wikicommons community on talk pages and through office hours to get feedback on our proposal to have Wikistories workflow in Commons.
3. Qualitative Research:
   • Commenced a Wikistories Moderated Usability Testing & In-depth Interviews in Indonesia.
   • A summary of all the Wikistories Early Adopters Survey Feedback have been published here; this feedback was used to guide all the initial product improvements before user interviews commenced.

July to September 2022

September 2022

1. Product Development:
   • Story builder instrumentation has story_already_exists hardcoded to false
   • Have a way to provide feedback about Wikistories in the StoryBuilder and/or StoryViewer
   • Improve Wikistories text display for readers and creators
   • Re-position an image on a story page
   • Technical evaluation of stories generator API
   • On story builder empty text box's label text is misaligned
   • Discover title auto flex in 2 lines
   • Improve the design of read next story option
   • Can we make article text highlight better?
2. Community Engagements:
   • The 3rd Wikistories Community offline campaign in Indonesia was held in Padang on the 10th Sept.
   • The 4th Wikistories Community offline campaign took place in Jakarta on the 24th of September.
   • GLAM in Indonesia competition to increase cultural heritage content using the Wikistories tool commenced on 17th Sept till 8th October.
   • On 29th September: an Office hour was held with the Indonesian community to answer questions and further discuss enabling Wikistories on Indonesian Wikipedia.
   • The team is exploring “Wikistories on Commons” and is beginning the process of engaging with the community members; a documentation page in MediaWiki is available.

August 2022

1. Product Development:
   • Improve Wikistories text display for readers and creators
   • A transparent SVG is displayed against a black background in Story Viewer
   • Let editors opt-out of stories discovery and CTA
   • Show image attribution on Story page (no-js)
   • Opening the story builder by clicking on the edit button
   • Including the Wikistories StoryViewer in the navigation stack
   • Handling stories that contain delete files
   • Open story builder with the story page user has clicked on the edit button.
   • Attributes doesn't load on the frame when replacing it
   • Migrate Wikistories to vue 3
   • Started design exploration of a Commons workflow for Wikistories with an opportunity for targeting underrepresented knowledge in our projects in line with the Movement Strategy.
2. Community Engagements:
   • Several GLAM campaigns with Indonesian partners ran from July with the last one happening 25-27th August.
   • The 2nd Community offline campaign in Indonesia happened on the 27th August with a feedback survey administered after the event.
   • Informed the Indonesian Wikipedia community of our proposal to enable Wikistories tool permanently in Indonesian Wikipedia.

July 2022

1. Product Development:
   • Several bugs and fixes were done after the June 30th launch; others are currently in progress.
   • Suggestions of product improvements received on the talk page.
2. Community Engagements:
   • Kicked off community campaigns in collaboration with Wikimedia Indonesia.1st Wikistories offline workshop happened on the 23rd July, 2022 in Yogyakarta.
   • Announcement on Diff (community blog) made on 25th July, 2022
   • Community communications in collaboration with Wikimedia Indonesia including announcement on Indonesian Wikipedia village pump, social media, mailing list, community WhatsApp group and even their website where they published a blog announcing Wikistories release.