'Articles that fit your interests & were recently edited a lot / got updated' module in WP app (Community Wishlist/W384)

Description

The Wikipedia app currently is relatively boring and unengaging, in contrast to the many other apps people use far more.

One thing that would be very interesting and that probably many contributors who check their Watchlists enjoy is seeing which information got recently added to articles. (I think that is in part because it's often relatively new information or because it's information newly added to a large article they're interested in.)

It would make using the app much more interesting if there were (a) tile(s) for articles that are similar to those which one has read or which one is interested in (see the recommended reading list) that were recently expanded.

Please allow the user to specify how many of these tiles to show on the Explore/Discover page. After testing one could have showing one of these tiles as the default setting. Alternatively, one could enable swiping to the left or right to see the next article suggestions.

There should probably be more or better examples – here's one:

a user may have read the article climate change policy (and I don't know if you also capture scroll/read-durations to see whether the user is actually interested in it or just quickly looking up something and doubt it) and among say 50 similar articles there is Carbon fee and dividend which at some point got the whole "Implementations" section added – at that time the article would show in a 'Because You Read and recently expanded much / updated' tile. That article could also show up if for example a major GHG emitter country adopted such a policy and the article subsequently got updated.

Note that to identify which articles have recently been updated or changed a lot, it would need to ignore edits by bots etc which can also add many bytes to an article as well as changes that are only copyediting or references. This is only about article text contents added by editors such as newly added sections or paragraphs. See also edit types.

In this article by Nieman Journalism Lab they write After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news It’s not a news site. But there’s a lot to learn from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what’s happening in the world. […] the 10 most-edited articles created within the past week […] When something big happens in the world, some Wikipedian will start an article — and within minutes, editors will descend on it, using news articles as raw material to construct something encyclopedic.

This could increase the Wikipedia app usage a lot as it becomes more interesting to explore around (as done for leisure with other apps), increase article reads, possibly improve quality of content on Wikipedia, and increase the number of new editors. Related code issue (not about this): phab:T370000

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

Feature request