On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:08 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntest...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Tilman, > > Thanks, it's great to see the momentum here in Mobile Contributions. > > Was there any discussion about how to convert the "selfies" uploaders and > people who sign up for the watchlist > feature into more active contributors? This seems like an opportunity to > make progress on what I think should > be the #1 WMF-wide priority right now, which making progress on the active > contributor statistics. > Yes, those "selfies" are a very fascinating user group :) It's pretty early in the game, but I think we can already make some statements about the kinds of mobile web users we're seeing trying out our features: they're very international, very new to the Wikimedia ecosystem, and very excited to be a part of Wikipedia. Not surprisingly, they don't quite know how to contribute yet, but this is a good problem to have! Far better than needing to convince completely uninterested users to contribute or malicious vandals/spammers to stop. There are some elements of targeted education that we're planning on adding to the UI to help: we've built a mobile friendly upload contributions view, and we'll be adding on a lightweight mini tutorial for new users who have never uploaded to Commons before (an early mockup here<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oqgwmlwlpdwhff3/FrXZvJJTMK#/>). But the tiny mobile screen is just not conducive to long information-dense tutorials like the desktop UploadWizard, so I think the most successful way of "educating" new mobile web users is simply to guide them directly to the kind of work that needs to get done, and to make it as painless and rewarding as possible for them to do it. That's why we created the one-step "lead image upload/add to article" workflow for articles with no images, and why we're working on a Nearby view that lets users see all the articles around them that could use an image. This takes all the guesswork out of what kinds of images are appropriate to upload, a problem that the "selfies" appear to be acutely afflicted by :) It also provides a constant source of more stuff to do. I think as long as we continue to build crystal-clear, new-user-friendly, and intrinsically valuable workflows, we'll have a much easier time converting some of these curious one-off users into productive contributors. -- Maryana Pinchuk Associate Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l