This task proposes a new view that enables people to see, and potentially refer back to, the pages they visited during a specific "session." [i]
The core of this proposal is about enabling people who visit/read Wikipedia to more clearly see and remember the time they spend here and the impact that time has on them. //E.g. Do you remember learning something new? Do you remember being inspired? Do you remember the moment where decided to go to your library’s website and borrow a book? etc.//
=== Stories
As someone who regularly reads Wikipedia and finds themselves traveling down/through [rabbit holes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_hole), I want to be able to more easily remember what I thought about/felt/did during these moments, so that I can more easily:
1) Refer back to a page I visited and have since forgotten the name of
2) Learn about and understand myself by seeing and making sense of the paths/lines of curiosities I've followed over time [ii]
3) Discover opportunities for me to learn something new
=== Open Questions/Provocations
- [ ] 1. When might people visit the page/place this task is suggesting we create?
-- When I am deciding what book to read next, I might visit this page, filter it by "articles about books," and see what articles I've read about books in the past ___ day(s)/month(s)/year(s) and see which – if any – resonate with me in that moment. [iii]
-- When I am planning a trip, I might visit this page, filter it by "articles about/related to physical place(s)" so that I can see whether there are any places I'd like to be sure to see [iv]
- [ ] 2. How might this page provide to people who visit and use Wikipedia differently? //E.g. People who visit Wikipedia intermittently (every few days/weeks/months). People who visit Wikipedia with specific learning objectives in mind (they are doing a research for a paper/report/etc.)?//
- [ ] 3. What new possibilities / opportunities could this page/place create? //E.g. Might this be a place to read content related to what you'd previously explored, but had not yet discovered?//
- [ ] 4. What might people come to this page seeking to learn?
-- //"What categories (read: topics) have I been reading the most pages within?"//
-- //"Of the biographies I've read, what percentage have been about women/men/etc.?"//
=== Background
This idea is inspired, in part, by work the Wikipedia iOS app, Google Chrome (chrome://history/journeys), Apple Photos, Google Photos, etc. are doing to help people store/make memories within these tools/services
|Wikipedia iOS app | Chrome's "Journeys" page|Apple Photos|
|---|---|---
|{F35044241}|{F35044237}{F35044236}|{F35044250}
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=== References
- [FY21: Navigation Explorations on iOS](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Yc9Dv0MA8e7c_9FgcKR9qXEjl-GBLc3FjgrUOEfBor4/edit#slide=id.gd29748ca23_1_35) //via @cmadeo //
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i. TBD what "session" would need to means in this particular context for people to perceive the pages they visit within each to stand out in their minds as a cogent memory
ii. A bit deep, I know! Tho, this is true of my experience and maybe others'?
iii. This use case was prompted by me reading [en: The Social Construction of Reality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_Reality), adding it to the reading list I maintain outside of Wikipedia (in Apple Notes), and thinking, "Huh, wouldn't it be nice if Wikipedia would remember this for me."
iv. This use case was prompted by reading about [Kengo Kuma's work](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kengo_Kuma#Selected_works) and thinking, "If I ever visit Japan, I'd like to visit a structure/environment/place Kuma designed."