Apologies for cross-listing this--I initially (and erroneously) only sent
it internally
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Hi,
For those of you I haven't yet met, I am a new product manager in SF,
working with the mobile web team (I look forward to meeting you)!
I just wanted to let you all know about a new project we are starting for
Wikipedia's mobile website. The project has been dubbed "Collections", and
our pilot will let users create and share collections of articles. Here
are some ways that this project is exploring new ways to move our mission
forward:
- *New ways to contribute: * through curation, wikipedia readers who are
not interested in traditional editing can have meaningful, creative
interactions with our content
- *Personal:* gives users a way to make content more relevant for
them "Peter's
list of most important Philosophers" is not subject to consensus or editing
by others. For the time being, a list will only be accessible via shared
url.
- *Shareable: *this project will experiment with the ability to use
Wikipedia to share ones' perspective with others and, in doing so,
encourage new users to engage
- *[Future] Browseable:* because each list is not exhaustive, there is a
possibility of using popular lists to promote meaningful content. It's
nice to know the full list of statisticians
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statisticians> is there, but I
might want to find a subset that have been picked out by a human for one
reason or another.
Though the pilot is targeting and supporting readers, we think there are
also potential use cases for editors that we could explore in the future.
One can easily imagine lists for editors to track or share their
contributions, such as: "Articles that I want to write/expand during 2015"
or "Articles I created in 2013".
A fair amount of thought has gone into why we are launching this particular
project and how we might approach it, but we have just started exploratory
development work last week. Here is the team:
Jon Robson
Rob Moen
Joaquin Hernandez
Moiz Syed
[me]
*Ask:*
[I know that this project overlaps with several existing features in terms
of raw functionality, so if you have any relevant experience with either
the editing or technical support of lists, collections extension (books) or
watchlist and are interested in sharing your experience, please feel reach
out to me directly. We very much want to learn from previous efforts]
Also, please reach out to me or anyone else on the team if you have any
questions or concerns about the feature, team, etc.
Best,
Jon