User Interaction Consultation

This was an experimental space created by the reading team to discuss issues on how to improve the experience of reading Wikipedia. We ran this experiment until April 22, 2016, and encouraged volunteer editors, staff members, and readers to discuss their ideas. Documentation of learned lessons is found here.

We will be incorporating clear suggestions as part of Q1 planning, and decide on the most feasible to move forward with.
One way to help readers learn is to enable them to interact with content and with each other on Wikipedia. We believe that more engaged readers will learn more, and that more of them will ultimately become editors. Kindly note that this is not a wishlist.

 How can we make Wikipedia more interactive for readers?

Please name your suggestion and hit submit to fill out a form with your idea. A link to your idea page will be created below. You can revisit your idea, and discuss on its talk pages.

Background and FAQ This is a friendly space

Ready for Input and Feedback

 * Bookmarks/read later
 * Readers thank editors
 * Request information
 * Highlights
 * Wikidialog
 * Add a listen button
 * Who wrote that?
 * Browsing

Need more information

 * Extended and resumed information
 * Interactive pages (multimedia)
 * Make better use of recent changes

New content types

 * Annotated maps
 * Interactive pages (multimedia)
 * 3d models and animations
 * Wikidocumentaries
 * Panorama viewer

General Wikipedia Improvements

 * Simplify information in the sidebar
 * Translated versions of pages on other idioms
 * get back to the exact match search method
 * start proper maintenance of the really good existing stuff
 * Wikipedia by country
 * fundraising
 * More accessibility in apps for editing
 * Hovercards for non-logged in users
 * Preference menu for readers
 * Related pages for non-logged in users

Full list


If you would like to discuss any of the premises of this consultation, please do so on this discussion page