Topic on Talk:Reading/Strategy/Kickoff

For instance, taking the example from below: "if you aspire for access to everyone", then you think we should focus solutions that help provide equal experience for everyone regardless of their internet speed? Or we should provide better cross platform support? Or we should focus on certain georgaphies that have least access, currently.

Focus areas for: We aspire for a movement where in 2-5 years readers have access to excellent reading experiences wherever they are, independently of which country they live in.

- User research should be a primal focus to inform state of reading experiences.

- Design and User experience evangelization on editor communities.

- Excellent content distribution story with lower connectivity. (Better dumps story and better offline reading experiences).

- Understanding different parts of the world and how the content could reach the readers.

- Targeted reader experiences from the same content that adapt and show the content optimized for the readers of a specific segment.

The WMF Reading Department should develop tools that help Wikimedia editors to improve the reading experience of projects.

Thanks @NaBUru38 for your reply. Would you please elaborate examples for such tools?

For example, wide tables look awful in small screens. There should be a better way of displaying them. For example there should be optional breaks in lists, so the wider the screen, the more columns appear.

Also, I've already mentioned Wikipedia portals . We should have better tools to build them, like generating summaries of similar articles automatically (I do that manually).

You are already doing interesting things with the mobile apps, and I hope that continues - Wikimedia data should be available at your fingertips in any situation you need it.

However, I would also like to see a much greater emphasis on the quality of the knowledge presented to the reader. Wikimedia has been reluctant to meddle in the community editing processes, and for good reasons - any sense of top-down control scares contributors away. But maybe your department could come with ways to strengthen the incentives to contribute reliable and neutral information, and work to gain support from the editor community to implement them.

For instance, how about a simple setting in the mobile app that make it only search in "featured" and/or "good" quality articles - this would make it easier for the reader search just the good stuff, while also incentivizing the editors to produce good stuff, since editors contribute because they want their content to be read.