determineddominoe wrote:

I can't believe I forgot to mention this - readers have been demanding a better editing GUI! Everyone always tells me it's too hard to edit wikipedia, probably because nowadays everything is intuitive pop-up menus (where editing wikipedia is a wall of text with even some code).

I would suggest, next to the [edit] button in each section, there be a more stylish "post-it" button - so that readers with accounts can leave expandable post-its in the margins about anything from new sources to be incorporated to warning about boring sentences.

This bug is too generic and idea discussion doesn't happen on Bugzilla, please file specific feature requests (each in its own bug) or open a discussion on wiki.

(In reply to comment #0)

Wikipedia accounts provide many excellent editor tools. Wikipedia accounts do
not provide some important benefits for users that are strictly readers (rather
than frequent editors). I am suggesting some options that should be implemented
and advertised as reasons to get a Wikipedia account, even if you are mostly
just a reader.

• I'm still curious (basically an in-wiki bookmark list of articles the reader

wants to read later, an important feature when you find yourself opening dozens
of tabs and internal links)

See the "read later" combined button proposal at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collection_Extension_2#Wireframe_Layout_for_placing_the_print_and_Collection_extension_buttons for instance.

• You might like... (provides users with other pages they might not know to

read. This could be accomplished, for example, by keeping track of the
categories of the pages they visit and showing new/popular pages in that same
category)

There are several proposals/discussions/studies about this, see e.g. [[m:Research:SuggestBot_-_Adding_Information_(2011)]], [[m:Research:Effects_of_Feedback_on_Participation_in_Wikipedia/Messages#Directive_Messages]], [[m:Research_talk:Community_portal_redesign#Open_tasks]] (active now).

(In reply to comment #1)

I can't believe I forgot to mention this - readers have been demanding a better
editing GUI! Everyone always tells me it's too hard to edit wikipedia, probably
because nowadays everything is intuitive pop-up menus (where editing wikipedia
is a wall of text with even some code).

See VisualEditor.

I would suggest, next to the [edit] button in each section, there be a more
stylish "post-it" button - so that readers with accounts can leave expandable
post-its in the margins about anything from new sources to be incorporated to
warning about boring sentences.

[[mw:Article_feedback/Version_5]].