Not picking up at this time: If we see an abnormal amount of reverts on English, we'll check how many of those reverts were because of the infobox and raise priority of this ticket.

Ticket updated:

• An editor request this functionality
• Data from Shay: in April, 60% of edits made on en.wiki using Android Add an Image were into the infobox, 40% into the top of the article, underscoring the importance of this task. We'll wait until we see the

Exact code areas to port on Android: https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/blob/main/app/src/main/java/org/wikipedia/edit/insertmedia/InsertMediaViewModel.kt#L198-L318

Can maybe be added as a separate method in WKWikitextUtils.swift, which throws an error if it fails. In ExploreViewController, we try this new method first, then we can fall back to calling insertImageWikitextIntoArticleWikitextAfterTemplates. Add tests in WKWikitextUtilsTests to help with speedier testing.

Notes from the exploration:

• Implementing like we have on it should be possible - we need some further developemnt and testing, which should not be a huge lift.
• Based on the Android implementation, I created a new method, attempInsertImageWikitextIntoArticleWikitextInfobox(...), that will handle the logic of inserting the alt text into the top 5 infoboxes on the English wiki.
• If a valid infobox is found, we attempt to insert the image wikitext after the image name parameter. Otherwise, we insert the parameter name and image wikitext. At this point, my logic is a little off since it's not respecting the spacing between the param and image info, so I'm adding the space manually.

That logic should be repeated to insert alt text and caption parameters, but it should be very similar; just update the parameter name.
I added an aux unit test to help with development, but more tests for all the infobox types and possibilities (adding alt text, not adding alt text, etc etc) should be added.

• Then, replace the original method with the new one created to decide if infobox insertion should be attempted insertWikitextintoArticle(...). In this method, check for an infobox match from getInfoboxMatch(...) - a function that uses a regex to get a possible match and returns the match range - and if the language is "en," we proceed to try to find the image name parameter.

Here's the branch with the progress for the spike https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/tree/infobox-insertion-spike

Thanks @Mazevedo, do you have an estimate of how many more engineering hours would be needed to finish implementation?

We are not currently planning to do the Alt Text experiment on English wiki, but as backup we'd like to have the option to add English. With what you know, how easy would it be to add the additional alt text parameter into the infobox template with correct formatting?