Edit Discovery

There are many paths people can take to contribute to Wikimedia projects.

This page offers an overview of the various entry points to said paths that are present within Wikimedia project interfaces.

Objectives
This page, and the practice of maintaining it, is designed to equip Wikimedia Foundation Product Teams with the information they need to help volunteers intuitively discover opportunities to improve Wikimedia Projects.

Initially, this page is intended for Product Department staff who are seeking to expose a new contribution opportunity to volunteers. This page will enable these staff members to evaluate all of the existing editing entry points so that they can decide to do one of the following:


 * 1) Create a new entry point
 * 2) Integrate with an existing entry point
 * 3) Consolidate existing entry points

Persistent Entry Points
''This section contains a list of the contextual editing entry points that are currently present within Wikimedia project interfaces, across platforms and devices. For definitions of each of the columns in the table below, please see the Glossary.''

Contextual Entry Points
''This section contains a list of the contextual editing entry points that are currently present within Wikimedia project interfaces, across platforms and devices. For definitions of each of the columns in the table below, please see the Glossary.''

Inactive Entry Points
This section will contain a list of editing entry points that are no longer present within Wikimedia project interfaces, across platforms and devices.

Glossary

 * : name of entry point
 * : what content the entry point will lead people to change/contribute to
 * Examples: Article, file, discussion, image, infobox, etc.
 * : the platform(s) the entry point is available on
 * Examples: mobile web, desktop web, Android, iOS, KaiOS, etc.
 * : image(s) of the entry point being described
 * : what data/evidence do we have to help us understand the impact a given entry point has on people's likelihood to: A) make a constructive contribution and B) return to make more contributions
 * Examples: links to analyses, qualitative research studies, etc.
 * : the conditions that must be met for an entry point to be available
 * Examples: account state (logged in/out), the tool(s) used to publish a piece of content (e.g. Content Translation: T287236), the time that has elapsed since an article was published, the presence of issues/edit suggestion within the content someone is viewing (phab:T265163), user experience level, etc.
 * : a free-form field for any information that may not fit in an existing column.
 * Examples: attributes of an entry point: "persistent," "opportunistic," "proactive," etc.
 * : #TODO
 * : #TODO