User:PPelberg (WMF)/Greenhouse

I imagine this page as a greenhouse. A place to gather bits of information from in and around the Movement that resonate with me, a Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.

This page is an experiment built on the hypothesis that taking consistent note of information resonates with me and locating these bits of resonance together in a public place where I can relate and iterate upon them will cause new idea to emerge.

Loose
"Hi. I am Vis M from India. Please make reading & editing from mobile more friendly as it is the only internet device used everyday by common people of developing countries. Are  there plans for more support for mobile? Wiktionary, Wikisource, and Wikivoyage will benefit a lot if people can contribute and participate from smartphones."


 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305756
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302352
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304382
 * Timelines and elevating knowledge formats that have naturally emerged into structured/dedicated contribution tools/workflows
 * many wikipedia articles include events mapped to points in time. relating events to time in a visual way seems to have been valuable enough to readers that volunteers created many custom templates to support this way of presenting time-based information. [i]  and while some volunteers have discovered these templates and used them to visually relate time and events [ii], many articles A) lack any kind of visual relating time and events or B) have used existing tools to improvise doing the above [iv]  all of this has summed to me thinking: "hmm, maybe timelines are a 'first class' knowledge format that we ought to define the presentation for and create the tooling necessary for volunteers across experience levels to create."  ---  i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Timeline_templates  ii. https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2  iii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor  iv. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women_in_computing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_hypertext_technology , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Julle/Essays/Wikipedia_as_a_physical_space
 * How might Wikipedia reflect back to people the time they spend with it, so that people can better understand what they need and are interested in?
 * How might we empower people to configure Wikipedia in ways that are suited to meet their individual needs and interests? Asked another way: How might we empower people to customize Wikipedia in ways that align their individual needs with the objectives/values/policies of the project's?
 * How might we evolve category pages to help readers discover knowledge within the wiki they might not have found otherwise?