Structured profiles

The basic concept around structured user profiles is to present important information about a Wikipedia editor and stitch it up into a pop-up card accessible from other places than the userpage so that a user can get a quick idea of who the other user is.

Background
This concept is partially a derivative of Navigation Popups, a gadget on English Wikipedia. Previous design iterations on this concept can be found at GlobalProfile/design.

Wikipedia is built by a community. We believe that what sustains that community is connections based on identity and intent, while the traditional approach focuses on the SuperordinateGoal. Identity is a very complex notion. We think intent is something we can leverage to help new editors find like minded people. That is what this project is about.

This project is also 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.

User types

 * New Users
 * Anonymous Users
 * Advanced Editors
 * Bots

Unsorted examples

 * Knowing what I am dealing with
 * Edit Count & years of participation
 * Languages I know and wikiprojects that I care about
 * A 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 an identity also

Information carried by the user profile



 * About
 * Name
 * Pic
 * Status (Appears to be new -- System Parsed)
 * User since
 * Language
 * Interested topics


 * Activity
 * Last active / activity
 * Thanks received / given


 * Contribution type (Visualization)
 * Articles created
 * Files uploaded
 * Grammar / spelling fixes
 * Citing sources
 * Linking pages
 * Improving clarity
 * Edit Count (Private by default, Public if customized by the user)

About 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.