Wikimedia Mobile engineering/Brainstorm

This page is intended to be a whiteboard for requests and feature ideas for future mobile contribution projects.

Tasks

Task suggestion

1. Requested task from funnel of requests (e.g., "someone suggested this plot summary is too detailed - do you agree?", "is this the right description for this image?")

Task assignment

1. Mini-game (e.g., "disambiguate/wikify/categorize these three sentences/articles!")

Curation

Page and vandalism patrol

1. Clean, mobile-friendly versions of NewPages Feed or Huggle

Image curation

1. Category as gallery - add/remove images, tag images

Power watchlist

1. Quick diff display and revert functionality
2. Revision-level feedback (e.g., +1 an edit)

Comments

Casual communication

1. Simplified article and/or user talk page functionality
2. Notifications for user talk edits
3. Streamlined commenting system on talk pages and community discussion spaces (e.g, Village pumps, noticeboards)
4. Wikilove

Article feedback

1. Request a task for funnel (see #Task suggestion)
2. Mobile AFT
3. Article feedback moderation (upvote/downvote/flag feedback)

Power reader tools

Watchlist annotation

1. Annotate/save to-do items within article for later editing
2. Annotate/save articles to watch/improve later

Nearby

1. Add location to content
2. Notifications when nearby content needs image/article

Social features

1. Sharing content (articles, images)
2. Sharing a task (e.g., request image for an article from friends/contacts)
3. Personalized content collections (e.g., "my galleries," "my favorites")
4. Contact a Wikipedian (e.g., request help, a copyedit, peer review, etc.)

Content creation

1. Image upload
2. Create a stub
3. Sentence-level editing

Other

Social network leveraging

1. Use profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to determine relevancy and expertise for editing

Citations

1. Citation templates auto-populated from ISBN (manual entry or photo)

See also

• Wikimedia Mobile engineering/imported/Mobile projects/brainstorm/Archive