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Discussion: Brainstorm ideas for new directions in microcontributions from mobile web and apps.
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Since we'll have plenty of experienced Wikipedia editors at this event, I'd like to get everyone's ideas about how mobile apps can simplify and/or improve your editing experience, as well as the experience of administering and moderating recent changes. Just a few of the questions I'd like us to think about:

  • What would be your idea of a "perfect" editing interface on a mobile device?
  • What kind of mobile contribution feature would help encourage *readers* to start becoming editors (or moderators)?
  • As an editor or administrator, what kind of repetitive/mundane actions do you find yourself performing on a regular basis, and which of these actions can be converted to an app that you can use on-the-go?

Etherpad:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/discussion_mobile_apps_microcontributions

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Could we expand this to be mobile web too... and do some hacking maybe? :)

Dbrant renamed this task from Discussion: Brainstorm ideas for new directions in microcontributions from mobile apps. to Discussion: Brainstorm ideas for new directions in microcontributions from mobile web and apps..Apr 1 2016, 6:33 AM

Mundane actions I do on a regular basis is copying the same information from English Wikipedia to Commons and Wikidata (or any combination thereof). Some common statements on all three projects for the Sum of all Paintings project are 1) Creator name 2) Title of work 3) Collection 4) Inventory number in the collection 5) link to the artwork in the collection's website 6) Subject of artwork 7) Genre of artwork 8) Date of artwork. For more background look at [[Category:Paintings]] on English Wikipedia or Commons. See also Maarten Dammers work on adding Wikidata items to artwork templates on Commons and adding Commons images to Wikidata items about artworks.

Ping @jmatazzoni: that task and the etherpad may interest you on your current brainstorming.