Edit Discovery

There are many paths people can take to contribute to Wikimedia projects.

This page offers an overview of the various entry points to said paths that are present within Wikimedia project interfaces.

Objectives

This page, and the practice of maintaining it, is designed to equip Wikimedia Foundation Product Teams with the information they need to help volunteers intuitively discover opportunities to improve Wikimedia Projects.

Initially, this page is intended for Product Department staff who are seeking to expose a new contribution opportunity to volunteers. This page will enable these staff members to evaluate all of the existing editing entry points so that they can decide to do one of the following:

Create a new entry point
Integrate with an existing entry point
Consolidate existing entry points

Entry Point Catalog

Persistent Entry Points

This section contains a list of the contextual editing entry points that are currently present within Wikimedia project interfaces, across platforms and devices. For definitions of each of the columns in the table below, please see the Glossary.


Entry Point Name	Purpose	Platform(s)	Screenshot	Performance/Measurement	Documentation
Contribute Menus (desktop and mobile)	Make it easy for people to find actionable and intuitive ways to contribute by locating a range of self-guided edit opportunities in a location people can easily find and "reach" for. Actionable and guided. We are providing users with all they need, and providing them clear purpose and steps to follow. Contribute, in a broad sense. Directly or indirectly, the activity represents a way to participate that will result on more/better knowledge being shared.	Mobile Web (Minerva Neue)		The work to define how we will evaluate the performance of this entry point will happen in phab:T286466.	Edit Discovery/Contribute menu, Contribute: a persistent entry point
#TODO: Move newcomer homepage (suggested edits) from "Contextual Entry Points" table

Contextual Entry Points

This section contains a list of the contextual editing entry points that are currently present within Wikimedia project interfaces, across platforms and devices. For definitions of each of the columns in the table below, please see the Glossary.


Entry Point Name	Contribution Type	Platform(s)	Performance	Availability	Notes
Section edit link	Article edit	Web (desktop + mobile), Apps (iOS, Android)	#TODO	Everyone (logged in + out)	This entry point contains many different edit opportunities.
Full-page edit link	Article edit	Web (desktop)	#TODO	Everyone (logged in + out)	This entry point contains many different edit opportunities.
Edit selected content	Article edit	iOS, Android	#TODO	Everyone (logged in + out)	This entry point contains many different edit opportunities. It also opens the editing interface in the precise place someone was in while reading.
Add topic	Start new topic on a page where discussions are hosted	Web (desktop, mobile)	Junior Contributors who open the New Topic Tool are ~1.3 times more likely to successfully publish a new topic than Junior Contributors who open the existing add new section workflow^[1]	Everyone (logged in + out)	This entry point is scoped to a singular edit type: starting a new section/discussion on a page that hosts discussions.
Reply	Reply to a specific comment on a page where discussions happen	Web (desktop)	People who have made <100 cumulative edits were 7.2 times more likely to publish a comment on desktop than those using page editing.^[2]	Everyone (logged in + out. Details:Deployment Status)	This entry point is scoped to a singular edit type: posting a response to a comment on a page that hosts discussions.
Create page via red link	Create a page that does not currently exist	Web (mobile)	#TODO	Everyone (logged in + out. Details:Deployment Status)	This entry point supports many types of changes. Although, it is presented to people as having a singular purpose: to create a page that does not currently exist.
User homepage	A feed of numerous edits people can make. Each edit is scoped to a particular kind of change.	Web (mobile, desktop), Android App	#TODO	#TODO	This entry point offers people a variety of edits people they can choose to make. Each edit suggestion is scoped to a particular kind of change (e.g. adding reference(s), adding link(s), adding image(s), etc.).
New Translation	Translate an article from one language to another language	Web (desktop)	#TODO	#TODO	This entry point is scoped to a singular edit type: translating an article from one language into another.
Translation as alternative to create article from scratch	Translation (new article)	Web (desktop and mobile)		If there is a relevant suggestion based on the title it is shown in the invite. Otherwise, the invite is shown only once for the user.	Desktop (T216500) and Mobile (T298084)
Review recent translations	Proofreading, and Translation (expand)	Web (mobile)	Research suggests that users can easily and quickly discover it and interpret as a signal that some action was needed for the article [1]	Logged-in users on mobile. Articles published as a translation in the last 10 days, with less than 5 edits. The article has no other notices (to give priority to community added ones), and is not a redirect.	T287236
Translate a section the user recently edited in another language	Translation (expand)	Web (mobile)		On mobile, the user is in a page that they have edited in another language recently in their 10 latest significant edits (+500 bytes or more) for a section missing in the current language.	T287025
Surface missing languages to translate	Translation (new article)	Web (desktop and mobile)		Articles missing on a language relevant to the user.	Desktop (T290972) and Mobile (T298032).
Search for missing language to translate	Translation (new article)	Web (mobile)	Research shows that searching for the availability of an article in a given language is often an initial step in the translation process.[2][3]	Logged-in users on mobile. Searching for a language the article is not available in (and mobile translation is supported).	T286470
More options from language selector	Translation (new article)	Web (desktop)		The Language selector provides access to additional options from the bottom corner. Logged-in users on desktop where Content Translation is available have an option to translate the page into more languages.	T289840
Post-publish follow-up	Translation (expand), and Proofreading (secondary)	Web (mobile)		Logged-in user after publishing a translation for an article/section on mobile.	T241592
Post-edit suggestion	Suggested Edits	Web (mobile + desktop)	In analysis of the "add a link" funnel, we saw that 28% of desktop users and 11% of mobile users choose to do another task from the "post-edit dialog".	Any logged in user who has enabled the Newcomer Homepage and completed a Suggested Edit.	T301603

Inactive Entry Points

This section will contain a list of editing entry points that are no longer present within Wikimedia project interfaces, across platforms and devices.

Glossary

Entry Point Name: name of entry point
Contribution Type: what content the entry point will lead people to change/contribute to
- Examples: Article, file, discussion, image, infobox, etc.
Platform(s): the platform(s) the entry point is available on
- Examples: mobile web, desktop web, Android, iOS, KaiOS, etc.
Screenshot(s): image(s) of the entry point being described
Performance: what data/evidence do we have to help us understand the impact a given entry point has on people's likelihood to: A) make a constructive contribution and B) return to make more contributions
- Examples: links to analyses, qualitative research studies, etc.
Availability: the conditions that must be met for an entry point to be available
- Examples: account state (logged in/out), the tool(s) used to publish a piece of content (e.g. Content Translation: phab:T287236), the time that has elapsed since an article was published, the presence of issues/edit suggestion within the content someone is viewing (phab:T265163), user experience level, etc.
Notes: a free-form field for any information that may not fit in an existing column.
- Examples: attributes of an entry point: "persistent," "opportunistic," "proactive," etc.
Contextual Entry Point: #TODO
Persistent Entry Point: #TODO

References

[1] Talk pages project/New topic#Analysis 2: Impact

[2] Talk pages project/Replying#Analysis: Impact

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