Wikimedia Apps/Mobile App Edits Revision Tags

Suggested Edits

Tag: app-suggestededit

What are Suggested Edits?

Suggested edits present opportunities for small but vital contributions to Wikipedia. We would like to raise awareness that everyone can edit Wikipedia and make contributing easier and more accessible for everyone.

Suggested edits are available for the language that is set as your primary or default language in the app. If you would like complete suggested edits in a different language, change your default app language.


Suggested Edit Task	Availability	Platform
Article descriptions	Logged-in users with more than 50 edits	Android
Article images	Logged-in users with more than 50 edits	Android and iOS
Image captions	Logged-in users with more than 50 edits	Android
Image tags	Logged-in users with more than 50 edits	Android
Edit Patrol	Logged-in users with rollback rights	Android and iOS
Native Editor	Logged-in users with more than 50 edits	iOS

Article descriptions (Android)

Tag: app-description-add

Tag: app-description-change

Tag: app-description-translate

What are article descriptions?

Short, multilingual descriptions of items (e.g. Wikipedia articles).
Article descriptions are not full sentences, but small bits of information.
In most cases, the proper length is between two and twelve words.

What are article descriptions used for?

Article descriptions are shown in the apps below Wikipedia article titles to help readers identify the article they're looking for. Article descriptions are stored and maintained on Wikidata and have been designed to disambiguate items with the same or similar labels. Descriptions are also shown outside the Wikipedia site and apps: for example, in Google searches.

Article descriptions summarize an article to help readers understand the subject at a glance. These are known in the Wikimedia community as Wikidata descriptions.

Machine Assisted Article Descriptions Experiment

Some users may see a button that says "see suggested descriptions" which will show them 1-2 machine generated article descriptions. We are testing a model that summarizes a Wikipedia article into a description of the article. Our hope is that it will help improve the quality of article descriptions published by Android app users. When a suggestion is selected, it can be modified or deleted.

The experiment started April 3, 2023 in select language wikis and will run for approximately 30 days. You can read the full details about the experiment on the dedicated project page. Information about the model we are using to generate the article descriptions can be found here.

More on article descriptions

Article descriptions are stored and maintained on Wikidata, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation which provides a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database supporting Wikipedia and other projects.

Article image add (Android and iOS)

Tag: app-image-add-top

Tag: app-image-add-infobox

What is the article images task?

Wikipedia articles are written and edited by thousands of volunteers from around the world. Unfortunately, many articles lack images. Article images is a type of Suggested Edits task that will show logged-in Android and iOS users articles and images along with its associated information, so that users can determine if the image is a good illustration of the contents of the article displayed. For more information about the Article images task, check out the image recommendations project page.

The images will be suggested to you using an algorithm. The algorithm will pull images from other sources and suggest a match with an article that does not have an image.

If you’d like to learn more about images on MediaWiki and its syntax, check out this resource: Help:Images

Image captions (Android)

Tag: app-image-caption-add

Tag: app-image-caption-translate

What are image captions?

Short, multilingual descriptions of image files.
Limited to 250 characters in length and cannot contain markup.

What are image captions used for?

Image captions describe an image to help readers understand the meaning and context of an image. They are also used to provide alternative information for an image if people cannot view it, e.g. because of a slow internet connection or if people use a screen reader.

More on image captions

Image captions are stored and maintained on Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation which provides an online repository of free-use images, sounds, other media, and JSON files supporting Wikipedia and other projects.

Image tags (Android)

Tag: app-image-tag-add

What are image tags?

"Image tags" is a shorthand phrase for what the Commons community calls Depicts statements.

What are image tags used for?

By adding image tags, you will help make images easier to search for on Commons, the free license image repository that Wikipedia uses for images in its articles.

Edit Patrol (Android)

Tag: app-rollback

Tag: app-undo

What is the edit patrol task?

The Edit Patrol Suggested Edits task allows moderators to review and patrol recent changes to Wikipedia from their mobile devices. Logged-in users with rollback rights can review a feed of recent edits from their mobile device and easily take action to:

Revert, or undo edits.
Rollback edits.
Filter the edits displayed.
Thank users.
Check the user's other contributions.
Leave a message to the user on their talk page.
Save a library of messages for later use.

Users can patrol in the language that is set as their primary or default language for the app.

If you would like to patrol in a different language, change your default app language. For more information about the Edit Patrol task, check out the Anti Vandalism project page.

Patrolling is the term used to describe when multiple users are reviewing alterations to the wiki in order to verify that they comply with the wiki rules. This is performed in order to quickly undo undesirable edits, link spam, copyright violations and vandalism.

Read more on patrolling

Native Editor (iOS)

Tag: app-section-source

Tag: app-full-source

Tag: app-select-source

Tag: app-talk-source

Tag: app-talk-reply

Tag: app-talk-topic

What is the native editor?

In order to introduce Suggested Edits to the iOS app we needed to ensure our editor is native and that we have more control over its performance. We also wanted to ensure that editors have the tools they need to meaningfully contribute to articles from their mobile devices without relying on Mobile Web. This feature also updates our talk pages to allow for full page editing. Editors with rollback rights can also undo and rollback edits.


Native Edit Tag	Native Edit Type
app-section-source	App article section edit
app-full-source	App article full source edit
app-select-source	App Article select edit entry point
app-talk-source	App talk page full source edit
app-talk-reply	App talk page new reply
app-talk-topic	App talk page new topic