Inspired by a conversation @ovasileva and I had offline and this 2023 Community Wishlist proposal [i], this task involves the work of introducing a way for people to share infoboxes off of Wikipedia.
User stories
- As someone who happened upon a topic on Wikipedia that I found to be interesting/useful/relatable/etc., I'd value an easy way of sharing a summary of that topic with people who I think might also find that topic to be interesting/useful/relatable/etc. in a context where they/we are already spending time together.
- As someone who is scrolling through Twitter/reading a blog post/catching up on messages in a WhatsApp group chat I'm in/browsing TikTok/watching Instagram Stories/etc., I'd value being able to quickly consume/see a summary of a topic that someone else found interesting/useful/relatable enough to share without me needing to "move" from where I am to consume it (read: I don't want to have to go to Wikipedia to see the thing).
Loose Ideas
- As part of the proposed sharing flow, I'd value being able to elect what parameters/fields/pieces of information are and are not included within the "infobox" card/unit that I end up sharing off-site
- It might be neat to, one day, be able to daisy-chain (read: link) multiple of these infoboxes together
- We kind of see this behavior happening a bit already with how volunteers link articles like 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2018 FIFA World Cup, and 2018 FIFA World Cup:
Related
@Esanders did some related work on this in 2019 by way of suggesting popular templates (of which we assume infoboxes would be one) within the Insert a template dialog.
i. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Editing/Quickly_add_infobox