01) Contributions as a global feature
Description
We introduce contributions as a new app feature. It lists contributions from Suggested edits and Wikipedia. Contributions is added as a new section in the navigation drawer. Accessing contributions via Suggested edits leads to a filtered view.
Visuals
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| Contributions is added to the navigation drawer | |
Additional remarks
- Adding Contributions to the navigation drawer is consistent with Mobile Web.
- Proposed information architecture for a contribution list item
- Description
- For article edits: Edit summary is displayed if available.
- If summary is not available, either a two-line excerpt of the edit is previewed (if technically feasible) or just the title itself without a description.
- Description
02) Rebrand to “Edits”
Description
This is tied to conceptual direction B). Suggested edits will be rebranded to just “Edits”. Why should we consider this conceptual change?
- Improving the edit experience is the focus area in Android’s roadmap for FY 2020/21. This is a first step to move towards a unified edit experience on Android. What are the advantages for this:
- It’ll give us opportunities to announce new features and tease new opportunities related to editing in FY 2020/21.
- It’ll give us room to think about a unified edit award system that can be tied to this home screen.
- It’ll make it easier to introduce features like a user profile page or talk pages at a later stage later in FY 2020/21.
- Android app users can edit Wikipedia via app. Not seeing edits they’ve made outside of “Suggested edits” within this area might lead to confusion.
- To quote a statement from the structured tasks strategy:
*«Overall we aren’t trying to create/train one specific kind of editor. We are trying to create better paths to help people develop into their optimal Wiki contributor (this may mean casual, traditional). We want to keep peoples’ options open.»*
This is exactly what where we are headed with this change. By moving away from an artificial distinction of edits (suggested vs intrinsic), we’re paving the way for different edit journeys / levels. The differentiation of edits should be made by level of complexity of a task, rather than using different terminology.
What implications does it have on our existing infrastructure?
- The Suggested edits menu item and home screen and will be renamed to “Edits” (or ”Contributions”) to reflect the conceptual change.
- Restructured home screen
- Profile stats
- Currently, only edits made with Suggested edits tasks are counted in the profile stats. If we want to rebrand the area to just “Edits”, profile stats need to reflect this change.
- Contributions, Edit streak, Page views and Edit quality would need to be updated to base on all contributions from Wikipedia, article descriptions, image captions and image tags (not just Suggested edits)
Visuals
On the restructured and renamed home screen, Suggested edits is part of Edits.
The rebrand gives us new opportunities, e.g. creating an achievement system across products...
... or teasers to educate users about editing Wikipedia or new edit features that have been introduced to the app.
03) Grouping edits on the contribution history page, e.g. per Dmitry’s comment in T250190#6218949
Maybe, eventually (in v2 or v3 of this feature), we can think about "grouping together" edits that were made to the same article in quick succession, e.g. "Yesterday -- 6 edits to Big Momma's House II -- 3 tags added to Bissel.jpg", but the complexity of that is far too great for an MVP.