Wikipedia primarily offers information to people in long-form text. Relatedly, Wikipedia primarily invites people to contribute to Wikipedia via document-based editing interfaces.
It feels almost too simple to say and...this, to me, suggests there is a relationship between the tools/experiences we offer people to add and shape information to Wikipedia through/with and the formats we make this information available to people in.
This task is meant to hold – what I imagine will be – ideas that we think have the potential to inspire volunteers to add/shape Wikipedia in ways that intrinsically align with the expectations, preferences, and goals of people who are experiencing Wikipedia on a mobile device.
Ideas
- T307971: Empower people to organize and present knowledge by time
- T381725: Invite people to identify events within the articles they're reading
- T302352: Make diffs more shareable, engaging, and convenient
References
- mobilePreview [i] by @jhsoby:
- Thank you to @Samwalton9-WMF for making me aware of this.
- Mobile sidebar preview [i] by @bvibber
- Thank you to @Quiddity for making me aware of this.
i. These mobile emulators/previews, to me, feel like helpful steps in the direction this task is meant to bring into clarity and this task is meant to take it a step further...to identify formats that definitionally meet the requirements of mobile and by extension, need not demand that an editor explicitly consider whether what they're doing will meet the needs of someone visiting Wikipedia in a space constrained context (read: on mobile(.