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Community Picks: In the News Module
Open, HighPublic5 Estimated Story Points

Description

Background / Description

The In the News module surfaces articles that have been substantially updated to reflect recent or current events of wide interest. It connects Wikipedia's encyclopedic content to the news cycle and gives readers a reliable, neutral reference point for understanding current events. This is one of the highest-value modules for readers who turn to Wikipedia to get context on what's happening in the world.

User Story

As a reader browsing the Community Picks feed, I want to see articles tied to current news events, so that I can quickly find Wikipedia's coverage of what's happening in the world today.

Requirements

  • The module should display the title "In the news" with the subtitle "Articles that have been substantially updated to reflect recent or current events of wide interest"
  • Content should be displayed as a horizontally scrollable card carousel, each card showing a thumbnail image and a short summary of the news event provided by the community, or the lede. Do not machine generate a summary
  • Content should be sourced from the user's selected language wiki. If the module does not exist in the selected language wiki it should be hidden

Design Link

Figma link: module →

Note: in the file you will find specs for cases where an article picture is not present.

Event Timeline

Seddon triaged this task as Medium priority.Tue, Mar 17, 4:46 PM
HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Tue, Mar 31, 1:54 PM
Dbrant set the point value for this task to 8.Tue, Mar 31, 2:42 PM

@HNordeenWMF Just a couple of things to be clarified here:

  • The card has a "bookmark" icon, presumably to save this content to the user's reading lists. But each News item generally consists of more than one link to an article. Which link should be saved? Or should it be all of the articles mentioned in the news item?
  • Similarly, the card has a "share" button. But, what is it that should be shared? There's no concept of "the news item" itself that has a URL to link to. There is also no consistent concept of a "primary" or "subject" article link within the news story.

@Dbrant based on your comments above, I removed the buttons and also updated the "In the news" dedicated screen so that users can save / share individual cards (see second Figma link in the ticket for reference). @HNordeenWMF worked together with me on this, so we're aligned. Please let us know if this update changes your estimate. Thanks!

Comments from the planning meeting:

If we want to update the style of the list items for the "In the News" list screen, since the list item is a shared component that has been used in other places, like Reading Lists, Top read list, places...etc, this will require a separate task for the engineers to work on and to make sure they are all consistent across the app.

JTannerWMF changed the point value for this task from 8 to 5.Tue, Apr 14, 4:33 PM