Mobile design/Micro contributions

This document describes ideas for potential small contributions for mobile site users.

Rationale
Editing Wikipedia is a sophisticated, difficulty activity and is made even more so on mobile. Micro contributions are a way for new or casual users who are looking to do small, self-contained chunks of work to add value to the encyclopedia without having to input text or wiki markup.

User stories

 * As a new or casual Wikipedia user, I want a quick, easy way to contribute productively to the encyclopedia.

Design requirements

 * Create micro contribution features that don't require text input
 * Use elements of incentive-centered design to encourage good contribution
 * Leverage existing work queues on Wikipedia where possible

Project phases

 * Ideas

Categorizing

 * add/remove/manage categories on articles (see HotCat)

Page-centered flow:


 * 1) User comes to an article via Google search
 * 2) User sees section with categories that the article is a part of
 * 3) User sees link to add/remove categories

Queue-centered flow:


 * 1) User comes to an article via Google search (mobile frontend) or accesses Wikipedia directly (mobile application)
 * 2) User gets a call to action to visit a separate work queue
 * 3) User sees list of articles that need categories and can add them

Disambiguation

 * fix links to disambiguation pages by selecting the appropriate article from a list of suggested ones (see Dab solver)

Page-centered flow:


 * 1) User comes to an article via Google search
 * 2) User sees a link that is styled differently from other internal links
 * 3) User taps and gets a popup asking him/her where this link should go
 * 4) User can dismiss the notice or choose to accept the task

Queue-centered flow:


 * 1) User comes to an article via Google search (mobile frontend) or accesses Wikipedia directly (mobile application)
 * 2) User sees call to action to visit a separate work queue
 * 3) User sees list of articles with links that need disambiguating and can do as many as he/she wants


 * Wikifying


 * tap words to add/remove an internal link


 * Revision-level feedback


 * (from the watchlist) +1 good edits
 * (from the watchlist) downvote/flag bad edits


 * Article-level feedback


 * +1 an article
 * thank the author/send WikiLove

Image curation
As part of the Photo uploads project, there are potential avenues for adding curation micro-contributions like:
 * add categories to your image
 * add geo-coordinates to your image


 * Other ideas


 * vote on whether an image belongs in an article
 * vote on image quality


 * Recent changes patrol


 * revert or give revision level feedback on new changes


 * NewPages Feed


 * review & tag new articles for cleanup

User experience
TBD