User:CKoerner (WMF)/Reading List Discussion/nl

 Discussie over gesynchroniseerde leeslijsten



Hallo,

Het team Reading Infrastructure van de Wikimedia Foundation ontwikkelt een cross-platform dienst leeslijst voor de mobiele app Wikipedia. Deze lijsten zijn als bladwijzers in uw uw webbrowser. Een lezer van de Wikipedia app kan bladwijzers van pagina's maken die de lezer later terug kan lezen. Dit teruglezen kan offline. Door een leeslijst wordt er geen inhoud toegevoegd of gewijzigd.

Om zo'n leeslijst aan te maken, dient een app gebruiker een account te hebben waaraan die 'bladwijzers' worden gekoppeld. In het account kan men de leeslijst synchroniseren tussen de verschillende apparaten (tablet, smartphone, ...) van de gebruiker. Dit is de eerste keer dat we op deze manier voorkeuren synchroniseren. We horen en bespreken graag zaken over privacy en gegevensbeveiliging. We willen ook uitleggen waarom de huidige volglijsten voor dit doel niet worden gebruikt.

Achtergrond
In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.

Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.



Waarom geen volglijsten
Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:


 * Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
 * Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
 * The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
 * By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
 * Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

