== Problems== Description
=== DiscoverabilityPage history is an integral part of how Wikipedia works. Currently we expose the concept of history to all users at the bottom of the page via a small element:
At the bottom of every mobile Wikipedia article there's a link of the form
"Last edited X hours ago by user_Y >". {F29342474}
There are three problems with this link:
1) It is not self-explanatory that clicking on "Last edited X hours ago" will give the version history of the article.
2) Every naive user would tap on the arrow ">" at the right end to get further information,is an opportunity here to make this element more engaging and informative. but that arrow is not a link.
3) The link to "user_Y" is not particularly useful,A starting point would be including the total number of users that have edited the article. as one rarely needs to visit the user page of the last editor.
== One possible solution
https://www.notion.so/Article-statistics-eddf49fb021b437eba97c4c7f26effba
The main advantage of exposing the username is to have awareness with readers outside the community that wikipedia is written by individuals like themAdditionally emphasizing this element (by making it larger) will help communicate that the article is "alive", and hopefully encourage people to edit it. this creates a sense of community.The larger more abstract goal here is
maybe something like this? ->== Design notes
{F3998002}https://www.notion.so/Article-statistics-eddf49fb021b437eba97c4c7f26effba
or thistwo concepts:
{F3998019}
this is rough and obviously will go through the standardization process on UI part. but it archives following things| A | B
| {F3998002} | {F3998019}
- The main advantage of exposing the username is to have awareness with readers outside the community that wikipedia is written by individuals like them. this creates a sense of community.
- Including the number of total editors might start to communicate a sense of how mature the article is, and also reinforces the collaborative nature of Wikipedia
- This is rough and obviously will go through the standardization process on UI part. but it archives following things
1. shows how many people are involved into making this article happen
2. shows freshness of the article
3. creates the sense of human involvement into projects
Note: we need to think about how we can have a more standard treatment to this which fits into our design principals and matches other ui components.
Other metadata possibly worth including:
- ORES quality - for english and french wikipedia
- Article quality
- Number of total edits
- Number of editors
- Age of the article
- Last edit date
- Edits per month
- Number of watchers