Android editing features

What is this project?
In the 2018-2019 annual plan, the Android team will be building several new features designed to attract and encourage new contributors in emerging and historically under-served communities. Throughout the year we’ll be working on a number of different features designed to create an easy and enjoyable editing experience that will keep those contributors coming back to the app.

Why new contributors?
If you already contribute to Wikimedia projects, don't worry - these features are for you too, and we think you'll enjoy them. But Android has loads of users in South/Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, and other places where the wiki communities are still quite small. We want to make it easy and enjoyable for those folks to contribute high-quality content from their phones - unlocking the breadth of knowledge and experience that people in those communities can share.

What specifically are you going to do?
Glad you asked! Here's a high-level overview of what we're doing each quarter. This is subject to change based on community feedback and the results of our user testing.

Q1 - July-September 2018

 * User test redesigned app navigation, and release.
 * Notifications prototype and A/B test. (For the welcome, milestone, thanks, and translation notification types only.)
 * Community engagement around editing features.

Q2 - October-December 2018

 * Edit action feed (for captions, content translation microcontributions) prototype and user testing.

Q3 - January-March 2019

 * Release edit action feed.
 * Build and user test native Talk page and/or Watchlist prototypes.

Q4 - April-June 2019

 * Release native Talk page/Watchlist.
 * Prototype additional editing feature TBD pending data/community engagement results.

How can I get involved?
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please post them on the Talk page. We're actively soliciting feedback about how we can make Wikipedia welcoming to new contributors who may only be able to access it through their mobile phones.

You can also sign up to be a User Tester. User testers get to try very early versions of features and provide extensive feedback on usability and other issues.

Updates
Updates will be in reverse chronological order - newest first. Questions? Comments? Get in touch.

17 July 2018
We're testing a brand-new Wikitext keyboard at Wikimania this week. If you're at Wikimania, come over to our table and say hello! iOS and Web are also testing some exciting features.