User Interaction Consultation/Simplify information in the sidebar
Brief Description
[edit]Review and consider information displayed in sidebar (on desktop), then collaborate and plan a refresh of the various links in the sidebar of each page to make information relevant, engaging, and informative to readers.
Problem it solves
[edit]- The information on the sidebar could be overwhelming (requires validation), but I can imagine that people eventually get something similar to "sticker blindness" around the content displayed there.
- So many readers worldwide don't know how WP is created. By drawing attention to community tasks we may turn some readers into editors. There's an opportunity for conversion (though I don't think conversion is necessarily a goal)
Details
[edit]Research certainly must be done to determine which links are most utilized, what is most confusing, etc (best to do this with non-logged in user data). Fortunately, lots of people use Wikipedia solely for reading, which offers a unique viewpoint - even more fortunately, we all know people who only read Wikipedia, so we can ask those users.
There's a possibility of redesigning info, simplifying and reducing links, or re-ordering so that the information contained is more easily discoverable.