خوانندگان/تجربه خواننده/فهرستهای مطالعه
برای حمایت از خوانندگان فعال فعلی ویکیها در جهت اهدافشان برای یادگیری از ویکیپدیا، ما در حال آزمایش این امکان هستیم که خوانندگان بتوانند مقالات را برای مطالعه بعدی در یک فهرست ذخیره کنند، که به آنها کمک میکند دانش خود را سازماندهی کنند و در عین حال روشی برای گردآوری محتوا ایجاد کنند که میتواند راه را برای مشارکتهای آینده در ویکیپدیا هموار کند.
پیشینه
ما میخواهیم اطمینان حاصل کنیم که ویکی پدیا برای خوانندگان فعال مفید است همانطور که ما برای گسترش دسترسی به نسل جدیدی از خوانندگان تلاش میکنیم، مهم است که اطمینان حاصل کنیم خوانندگان فعلی ما، کسانی که در حال حاضر وقت خود را در سایت میگذرانند، همچنان در ویکیپدیا ارزش پیدا میکنند. ما میخواهیم به این خوانندگان کمک کنیم که نه تنها به صورت غیرفعال از ویکیپدیا بخوانند، بلکه در یادگیری عمیقتری که برای اهداف دانش و زندگی روزمرهشان مفید است، مشارکت کنند. ما فکر میکنیم این به ایجاد یک رابطه شخصیتر با ویکیپدیا کمک میکند، رابطهای که میتواند در نهایت منجر به انجام اولین ویرایش یا مشارکت در این جنبش شود.
ما فکر میکنیم که بخش بزرگی از این انتقال از خواندن به یادگیری این است که به خوانندگان اجازه میدهد تا مقالات و محتوایی را که ممکن است در آینده به آنها نیاز دارند، خودشان تنظیم کنند. این میتواند معانی مختلفی داشته باشد - ذخیره یک مقاله برای خواندن در فرصتی دیگر، هایلایت کردن جملهای که برجسته است، ذخیره بخشهایی از مقالات برای تشکیل مجموعهای از دانش و موارد دیگر.
مزیت دوم این رویکرد این است که خوانندگان با سازماندهی و تعامل فعال با دانش برای یادگیری خود، نه تنها این دانش را کسب میکنند، بلکه شیوهای از تعامل فعال با ویکیپدیا را نیز در خود ایجاد میکنند که میتواند گذار آینده به فعالیتهایی مانند ویرایش را کمتر دلهرهآور کند.
وقتی به فرصتهای گردآوری محتوا فکر میکنیم، ابتدا میخواهیم سادهترین رویکرد را بررسی کنیم - به خوانندگان اجازه دهیم مقالهای را برای مطالعه بعدی در فهرستی ذخیره کنند.
تکرارهای قبلی
Reading lists exist and are already highly utilized on the Wikipedia Apps. ویژگیهای مدیریتی مانند فهرستهای مطالعه و برگهها برخی از ویژگیهای مورد استفاده و درخواستی در برنامههای اندروید و آیاواس هستند، با درخواستهای طولانی مدت برای همگامسازی در بین دستگاهها، از جمله دسکتاپ. There is a longstanding Community Wishlist request from 2021 to have the apps reading lists available on mobile and desktop. این پروژه به ما امکان میدهد تا این نوع ویژگیها را به دسکتاپ و وب موبایل بیاوریم و امکان همگامسازی و استفاده در سکوهای مختلف را فراهم کنیم.
Beta feature rollout results
Of the 1620 total surveys we received during the time the beta feature was active [April – June 2026]:
- 1509 were positive (93.1%), 111 were negative (6.9%).
- 28% of comments included open-ended feedback (submitted across many languages).
Main themes and requests we received as open-ended feedback:
- 26% of the comments were just general praise [ie, "I like this"]
The most requested feature update is the ability to organize reading lists into folders, collections or categories, similar to what the mobile apps allows.
Other requested additions:
- Other sorting options
- Ability to add notes
- Sharing and exporting
- Support more namespaces, rather than just articles
Most of the negative feedback was about the watchstar being displaced from the navigation, which is something we are working to address.
خط زمانی آزمایش
فاز ۰ (ژوئیه – آگوست ۲۰۲۵): شناسایی مشکل
قدمها:
- Collect qualitative and quantitative feedback from readers and communities through user research, metrics, and external trends.
- Apply data to identify the problem we need to solve.
مشکلی که شناسایی کردیم:
- Both new and existing readers aren't returning to Wikipedia as often as we would like them to, and pageviews to our projects are declining.
- We don't currently have many ways for readers to personalize or curate their experience on Wikipedia.
فاز ۰: ایدههای اولیه و بازخورد
For early ideas and feedback, we hosted in-person conversations with early-stage design ideas and demos at Wikimania 2025 in Nairobi and WikiCon North America 2025 in New York City to solicit ideas and responses, as well as online on the English Wikipedia Discord. We also discussed this onwiki at the relevant pilot wiki Village Pumps.
Risks associated with this project that we are aware of include:
- Confusion between reading lists and watchlists
- Editors may mistake the reading list feature for a new or duplicate version of the watchlist.
- The star icon is already associated with the watchlist; adding another similar icon or button may reinforce confusion.
- The reading list and watchlist icons appear next to each other, potentially making it harder to distinguish functions at a glance.
- Impact on editor experience and onboarding
- Over-differentiating reader and editor interfaces risks creating barriers for newcomers transitioning from reading to editing.
- Editors value a consistent interface across reading and editing modes.
Historical context: A previous Wikimedia project (“Gather”) explored public article lists and was discontinued due to unresolved community concerns, including moderation burden and lack of community buy-in. Any future consideration of public lists will first thoroughly review this history and involve active community consultation.
فاز ۱ (آگوست ۲۰۲۵ - ژانویه ۲۰۲۶): اعتبارسنجی اینکه آیا فهرستهای مطالعه مفید هستند یا خیر
قدمها:
- Discuss reading list feature with communities and iterate design based on conversations.
- Design simple on-wiki experiment for reading lists on desktop.
- Run experiment for 2–4 weeks.
- Turn feature off.
- Analyze data.
- Report back on results and proposed next steps.
Questions this phase will answer:
- Are reading lists useful to readers?
- Should we continue working on reading lists?
- Should we test reading lists as a beta feature?
- Should we bring reading lists as a default to wikis?
Hypothesis evaluation: Was the hypothesis correct?
- ✅ If yes → continue
- ❌ If no → stop the project and document what we learned.
فاز ۱: نتایج آزمایش
Our primary success metric was the clickthrough rate (CTR) on the save article icon. CTR measures how often readers engage with the feature, helping us understand whether people notice it and choose to use it. Typical web CTR is between 1-5%. On English Wikipedia, we observed a clickthrough rate of 0.88% for the “save” button in the reading list experiment. Because saving an article reflects a specific intent — returning to that article later — we did not expect engagement rates comparable to more general navigation actions.
Our experiment was intentionally limited in scope to non-editor users in order to avoid interfering with existing editing and moderation workflows. In this test, a randomly selected half of logged-in users who met the criteria below were assigned to the treatment group, where they saw the Reading List feature: (1) active in the last 3 months, (2) 0 edits, (3) zero watchlist items (except for user page and user talk page), and (4) zero existing Reading List tables. The remaining half were assigned to the control group, where they experienced the current interface.
As a result, exposure to the experimental feature was relatively low. This was expected given the narrow audience segment, and it also reflects a broader challenge: for readers who do not edit, there are currently few reasons to log in, since most logged-in functionality on Wikipedia is designed for editors.
Additionally, we found that users that engaged with the feature had substantially higher rates of internal referral – that is, they landed on the page from another page on Wikipedia. This tendency indicates that users who are naturally more invested in Wikipedia find more value in the feature.
Based on these results, we plan to move forward with the feature and continue to collect data and information.
We are planning on trying this out as a beta feature for logged-in readers in two phases. In the first stage, we would run it on five pilot wikis the week of April 6, 2026 – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. Then after two weeks of monitoring and fixing any bugs, we would roll out to all other wikis the week of April 20, 2026.
In order to improve the exposure rate to average readers, we will opt all new users signing up for an account into the beta feature. For existing users, they would have to go in and turn on the beta feature to see it.
We will be collecting feedback via QuickSurvey on whether beta users find it to be useful.
فاز ۲ (ژانویه - ژوئن ۲۰۲۶): آوردن فهرستهای مطالعه به ویکیها
قدمها:
- Discuss bringing the feature as a beta feature or full feature for logged-in users.
- Design and implement any changes required.
- Design and implement additional functionality if required.
- Bring feature to wikis for logged-in users.
- Capture both quantitative and qualitative feedback from users via on-wiki QuickSurveys
- Discuss communicating about the feature with logged-out users so they can create an account to use it.
Questions this phase will answer:
- Did reading lists perform as well in reality as they did in the experiment?
- Are there any changes or customizations necessary for reading lists?
- Do reading lists on web work well with reading lists on the apps?
- Are users satisfied with the feature?
- What other functionality do they hope to see for the next iteration?
Launch evaluation: Did the feature behave as expected in production?
- ✅ If yes → continue
- ❌ If no → stop the project and document what we learned.
Phase 3 (April – June 2026 if beta rollout is smooth): Show reading list bookmark to logged out mobile web readers as an experiment to drive account creations
Steps:
- Identify how frequently readers are creating accounts using the existing watchstar button that is visible to logged-out users on mobile web.
- Design an A/B experiment that compares account creation rates between the standard watchstar and a bookmark icon that is shown to logged out users.
- Launch the experiment to a limited audience on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias (from May 18 through June 18).
- Share out learnings regarding effectiveness of encouraging readers to sign up for accounts.