Structured profiles

User Profiles Concept
Wikipedia is about a community. What sustains the community is connections based on identity and intent. While identity is a very complex notion, intent is something we can leverage to help new editors find like minded people. That is what user profiles is about. The basic concept around user profiles is to present important information about a wikipedia editor and stitch it up into a card much like navigation pop-ups so a user can get a quick idea of who the other user is.

Status
This project is mentioned on the WMF annual plan 2013-14:[//wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3A2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf&page=18] This set of additional hires would be primarily focused on two areas that are known to be strongly linked to user engagement: identity and affiliation. The first area describes changes to how a user is visible in our projects, extending unstructured user pages with globally shared profile information that can be surfaced throughout the user experience.

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Even if we begin hiring for this team in 2013-14, the full team is unlikely to be in place until close to the end of the fiscal year. Early engineering efforts will likely focus on user profile improvements but may not go past the prototyping stage.

Types of Users

 * New Users
 * Anonymous Users
 * Advanced Editors
 * Bots

Derivate
This concept is a derivative of 'Navigation Popups'

Edit Count

 * It isn't the same metric across all projects
 * Doesn't imply hard work or quality
 * A large count can be daunting for new users
 * Cumulative edit count across projects-Edit count over x days
 * Members recommend an on/ off model, where the user can determine whether their edit count should be displayed. Default Off is probably preferred.

Information carried by the user profile
User since x

Last activity on x since x

Appears to be a new user (System Parsed)

Edit Count (Private by default, Public if customized by the user)

Articles Created (Private by default, Public if customized by the user)

Files Uploaded (Private by default, Public if customized by the user)

Useful for other Editors
-Knowing what I am dealing with-

-Edit Count & years of participation

-Languages I know and the wikiprojects that I care about

-1 Freeform Input field for explaining intent

-Topical Interests

-Wikiprojects I am interested in

-Languages that I know

-Appears to be a new user (System Parsed)

-Anons should have profiles also

Exploration
Anonymous Users and BotsBoth these user segments need profiles.

Please note that this is currently not a roadmap item except for Mobile Web