Wikimedia Mobile engineering/Brainstorm
This page is intended to be a whiteboard for requests and feature ideas for future mobile contribution projects.
Tasks
[edit]Task suggestion
[edit]- Requested task from funnel of requests (e.g., "someone suggested this plot summary is too detailed - do you agree?", "is this the right description for this image?")
Task assignment
[edit]- Mini-game (e.g., "disambiguate/wikify/categorize these three sentences/articles!")
Curation
[edit]Page and vandalism patrol
[edit]- Clean, mobile-friendly versions of NewPages Feed or Huggle
Image curation
[edit]- Category as gallery - add/remove images, tag images
Power watchlist
[edit]- Quick diff display and revert functionality
- Revision-level feedback (e.g., +1 an edit)
Comments
[edit]Casual communication
[edit]- Simplified article and/or user talk page functionality
- Notifications for user talk edits
- Streamlined commenting system on talk pages and community discussion spaces (e.g, Village pumps, noticeboards)
- Wikilove
Article feedback
[edit]- Request a task for funnel (see #Task suggestion)
- Mobile AFT
- Article feedback moderation (upvote/downvote/flag feedback)
Power reader tools
[edit]Watchlist annotation
[edit]- Annotate/save to-do items within article for later editing
- Annotate/save articles to watch/improve later
Nearby
[edit]- Add location to content
- Notifications when nearby content needs image/article
Social features
[edit]- Sharing content (articles, images)
- Sharing a task (e.g., request image for an article from friends/contacts)
- Personalized content collections (e.g., "my galleries," "my favorites")
- Contact a Wikipedian (e.g., request help, a copyedit, peer review, etc.)
Content creation
[edit]- Image upload
- Create a stub
- Sentence-level editing
Other
[edit]Social network leveraging
[edit]- Use profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to determine relevancy and expertise for editing
Citations
[edit]- Citation templates auto-populated from ISBN (manual entry or photo)