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Make diffs more shareable, engaging, and convenient
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Description

Diffs have the potential to be/mark historic moments.

"Historic" in the sense that a diff can mark an important milestone to:

  • An individual person and their journey as a Wikimedian volunteer [i][vi]
  • A project's evolution and its goal of providing everyone access to the sum of all human knowledge [iii]
  • A group of people and the mistreatment they have endured being documented within a nation's legal canon [iv]
  • A nation and changes to how it define concepts relevant to its citizens [v]

This task represents the work of:

  1. Making diffs more obviously shareable
  2. Making diffs more engaging and legible to people who are encountering them off of a Wikimedia wiki (e.g. on a messaging service like WhatsApp or Telegraph, a social media service like Twitter, etc.)

Requirements

✏️ The below is very much a sketch at this point...

Meta

  • Diff needs to "look like" Wikipedia
  • The diff needs to equip people who may have never visited Wikipedia with everything they need to be able to quickly understand why the diff they are happening upon in their group chat, social media feed, etc. is relevant to them
  • People need to be able to quickly evaluate the significance of the change/diff they are seeing. E.g. a way of evaluating the importance of the diff itself.

References


i. Peoples’ first edit: diff:List of Amazon products and services, User:RobLa linking to their first edit on their user page
ii. A TV show features the main character editing the Wikipedia page you wrote the first version of
iii. Citation needed of a diff that is significant to a particular project. I'm thinking of a policy change, establishment of a new guiding principle or value, etc.
iv. diff:Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
v.

vi.

First person to document the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Wikipedia
Tweet:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sydwhunte&oldid=1109246371

Event Timeline

I wonder if a component of this idea could be a en:Wikipedia:Did you know-like curatorial practice for identifying "notable edits."

Related: @PWaigi-WMF an I were talking offline about the prospect of people being able to "subscribe" to be notified about "notable" edits to topics/articles they've expressed interest in were this curatorial practice exist.

ppelberg renamed this task from Make diffs more shareable to Make diffs more shareable, engaging, and convenient .Oct 19 2023, 11:55 PM