#####Background
On the iOS app, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description | short descriptions ]] for articles are displayed below the title. When a user is reading an article and there is no article description yet added, a prompt is displayed to add one. We've heard feedback on wiki and on phabricator with suggestions on changes that could be made to improve the quality of short descriptions being added to English Wikipedia.
The current flow on iOS looks like this:
| {F58309660} | {F58309655} | {F58309656} | {F58309658} | {F58309657} | {F58309659}
| Article without a short description has call to action for editors with 50+ edits | Onboarding 1 | Onboarding 2 | Editing the short description | "Learn more" leads to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description | Wikipedia: Short description ]] | Exceeding 90 characters shows warning
The current flow on Android looks like this:
| {F58318253} | {F58318237} | {F58318236} | {F58318234} | {F58318235}| {F58318238} | {F58318239} |
| Article without a short description has call to action for editors with 50+ edits | Onboarding 1 | Onboarding 2 | Onboarding 3 (Machine generated article descriptions is not enabled yet) | Editing the short description | Hard stop at 250 characters | Warning shown if text is entered in the wrong language
#####Updates to discuss
- Motivate users to stay around 40 characters
- Disable the "Publish description" button if users cross a certain threshold of characters
- Rename from "article description" to "short description" in all locations
- Ensure prompts for character limits are accessible to VoiceOver users