Abstract
Wikipedia has a lot of incredible content. Users want to share and remix—they get lost in a "wiki wormhole" and settle bets with friends. However, Wikipedia's platform offers only two ways to engage: read and edit. How many new opportunities can we build for users to get involved and produce more free knowledge? On many other sites, users are invited to remix, curate, and share content in many different ways. We have an opportunity to turn a half billion readers into users who contribute in forms other than long-form editing.
In this talk, we'll make a case for the need of these tools and showcase a selection of recent experiments and future ideas that teams within the Wikimedia Foundation are working on, including:
- Share-a-fact: a mobile app feature to quickly generate user-selected text snippets from Wikipedia articles with beautiful background images.
- Gather: a project enabling users to create shareable collections of Wikipedia articles.
- Future ideas including embeddable widgets to syndicate content from Wikipedia and other projects.
We will share data on these features, design concepts, and engage in broader conversation with the attendees on what we should build.
M. Syed, D. Taraborelli (2015). 50 Shades of Wiki:
New tools to share, remix and reuse https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/50_Shades_of_Wiki:_New_Tools_to_Share,_Remix_and_Reuse
13. Editing vs remixing
“Content consumers may suck at producing
content, but give them the right tools and
they’ll make amazing content curators”
– made-up quote from somebody at Flickr, on the launch of Galleries
14. Editing vs remixing
How do we get value from half a billion
readers?
Wikipedia builds on the idea of free licenses to
support reuse and remix, but we don’t
actively encourage this behavior.
24. Women in Science
Wikipedia needs your help
The English Wikipedia article Women in
Science needs contributors from a more
global perspective. Help expand it!
44. Help us build new tools for sharing, remixing
and reusing Wikimedia content.
We’d love your feedback, thoughts and ideas.
@moizsyed User:MoizSyed
@readermeter User:DarTar
Notas do Editor
Abstract
Wikipedia has a lot of incredible content. Users want to share and remix—they get lost in a "wiki wormhole" and settle bets with friends. However, Wikipedia's platform offers only two ways to engage: read and edit. How many new opportunities can we build for users to get involved and produce more free knowledge? On many other sites, users are invited to remix, curate, and share content in many different ways. We have an opportunity to turn a half billion readers into users who contribute in forms other than long-form editing.
In this talk, we'll make a case for the need of these tools and showcase a selection of recent experiments and future ideas that teams within the Wikimedia Foundation are working on, including:
Share-a-fact: a mobile app feature to quickly generate user-selected text snippets from Wikipedia articles with beautiful background images.
Gather: a project enabling users to create shareable collections of Wikipedia articles.
Future ideas including embeddable widgets to syndicate content from Wikipedia and other projects.
We will share data on these features, design concepts, and engage in broader conversation with the attendees on what we should build.
Outline
Intro
"getting lost"... [Moiz]
show that getting lost in Wikipedia is a thing
social media examples
sharing .. [Moiz]
how content is getting syndicated around the web now, buzzfeed gets 90% of its views from non-buzfeed.com viewers.. thats powered by social and sharing
compare Wiki vs rest of the Web
editing vs remixing (POV content) [Dario]
sharing and remixing is a type of contributions that we should embrace and encourage
not all content contributors are great creators
fake quotes
Flickr collections use case
WIkipedia is all about content re-use and remix but we don't actively encourage
Examples
share a fact [Moiz]
collections [Moiz]
widgets / embeddables / CTAs [Moiz]
map-based collections [Moiz]
multimedia stories [Moiz]
Benefits / impact
Increase in traffic
Mobile content, content that is fit for mobile
Collections, encouraging people with 0 edits to contribute... these are people who might not like to edit in the traditional sense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gather/id/6217/Movies_I_Like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Write2mahe
Increasing discovery of wikipedia content outside of the wikiverse. On social media, how we only get 2% of our traffic from there, trying to increase that.
Educational use case
get a video from Aaron Shaw
Syndicate our content where people are reading related content, newspapers, academic journals, etc
Ask
We need more projects like this, discussion for ideas, questions.
Draft
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19tJPdpZew7o5W8ftAgu3Gp9Y5BX2YnuT_NeXZ88M6YM/edit#slide=id.ga33eddc73_0_5
Materials
Mocks for Share a fact
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NSB2grCA617qnxXV5vWj8OoL17hHdQJ_aWEe3p1FPqU/edit#slide=id.p
Collections
Embedded Widgets
Moved you to first slot, you’re the boss here, I’m the assistant
Of course we’re not buzzfeed, but this is where the internet is moving towards
What value can we get from 500M uniques? Wikipedia was founded on the principle of using free licenses to support free reuse and remix, but we don’t actively encourage this behavior.
If consumption doesn’t primarily or uniquely happen on our site, we need to find a way of distributing the calls to action that prompt readers and potential contributors to participate in content curation from outside our sites.
We haven’t explored the possibility of using syndication as a vehicle to programmatically route attention (particularly, expert attention) back to the source. This is an example of what I used to call targeted contribution campaigns
Tours are spatially organized collections or reading lists.
Eventually, content mashups will enable users to create multimedia objects integrating media, structured data, long-form content and maps, into a portable, interactive “story”, commodifying design elements such as those used by the NYTimes multimedia storytelling team. The technology already exists for users to remix original content, integrate it into multimedia objects with off-the-shelf design elements, publish it and share it from mobile devices.
The key challenge is to design a suitable UX for the creation of these objects mapping presentation elements to simple and extensible data structures. The iOS iMovie app is a great model of an interface for creating nondestructive content mashups: resources exist on my OS, an iMovies project is simply a description of how these resources are integrated and displayed as part of a multimedia object.
Mobile access to Wikipedia has soared dramatically, in many countries human pageviews on mobile devices have surpassed desktop pageviews. As of last year, the United States have more unique visitors to Wikipedia from mobile devices than desktop devices.