Hey folks,
We need your help. (I mean, really, I don’t think this will work without you.) As you know, our readers mainly read the wikis on mobile phones, but our editing tools are focused on desktop and keyboards. This will be a problem for us in the long run: Wikipedia became a big thing because everyone who read it could add information. If this is not true in the future, we’ll have a harder time getting new editors. In the long run, effective mobile editing is about our survival.
The Wikipedia Android app is going to try a couple of things to see if we can get more people to start doing small tasks – adding or translating short title descriptions.
I have two things to ask:
1) If you have an Android phone and can install the app, would you be willing to test this yourself? We need to hear both from users who are used to editing on mobile and desktop and from users who usually edit only on desktop, so you don’t worry if you haven’t edited on mobile before.
Sign up here to help out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUj-8iCJf63OXEhMrtQCXfVksC8QF4souAX-Y7lmZubyAFfA/viewform
2) Could you spread the word and the sign-up link in your local community? It would be most appreciated.