Research:Mobile Strategy Research/USA/Notes/100401

2006. wanted to become an administrator - suggested involvement in WikiProject.
active on Wikiproject Chicago.
requests of articles
monitor talk page for the Chicago project
editing specifi articles that are of interest to me. Chicago or UofM related. edit to a good article - it tells the readers what they really want to know. they can find what they're looking for.
some things - can't fit into an acceptable length of an article. 60KB of content or readable prose. for example barack obama. take the detail and make separate articles - presidential campaign, senatorial career, family history. i actually tend to work on topics where you can describe the whole topic in a reasonable length.
vital level one - (ASK DARIO ABOUT THIS FOR THE NEW NATURELIKE STUDY)
i am a prolific starter of articles. i have 121 articles (first edit) and brought it up to good article status.
screenplay copyright. if you see a show on tv "created by..."

wikipedia[edit]

i see my contributions as a really enjoyable activity
bilateral - not a fan of getting into debates administrators, tend to avoid conflicts, stay in areas where conflict is minimal. i don't like to spend the time debating about some of the issues you can get involved in. i try to stay focused on things i could add.
pop culture of anna karnakova (sp?)
debates are interspersed with other editing activities.
template won't recognize references before it.

grow toolbar
IDEA: mobile toolbar - click on any link in whatever site or app to go to that wikipedia page
if the wikipedia link is in the top 5 google sites, i would almost prefer to go to the wikipedia.
amanda knox - wasn't in the news before 20 hours ago.
if you don't know someone's name exactly, google is much better because it corrects.
new show - pan am - new show, so i don't know the stars. i ended up on her wikipedia page.
comfort in the familiarity of searching a topic.
i know what to expect and where to find information
wikipedia library event here in chicago
standard formatting
i wouldn't spend a lot of time on this article because "the reader can get what they need out of this article".
i don't spend a lot of times fixing things up, i spend time writing articles with new content that people know that much about.
breadth + depth (this is what i do) > audio visual aids (picture people don't like my stuff)
pictures - don't always get the highest quality, not always the greatest. i like to add them but not a priority for me. flickr, open domain, have something.
sports - culture and news sources, google, found a couple of articles.
adds references
logs in to see time he started wikipedia

scoremobile for blackberry - took me to the last place i was
phone was stolen - had to get a new phone. phone locator so that he can see from his desktop where his mobile phone it
localpedia - shows me wikipdia articles - don't use it that much
i'm not good at it yet, i'll get better i'm sure. uses scrolling
i have a basic data plan - 200MB. i try to be at a place where i have unlimited data - wifi.
it's easier to look things up on a laptop than it is on my laptop
on my way to dc - i could maybe at the airport.
if i were on here (mobile), i could be on my computer. given a choice, i'd rather be on my computer.
phone search - football sunday, i might keep score mobile open while i'm working on my computer.
updating wikipedia real time: watching a game i'd likely be at a
when i'm on my blackberry, it's more of a source of information.
not important enough that i can't wait to do it at home
twitter - real time editing
i can't imagine wanting to get that to wikipedia at that moment.
talks about going through his first winter
not in my pattern yet on my phone

browser > bookmarks > en wikipedia
no did you know on the mobile beta
in the news is the most important part of the main page
if i wanted to search, i'd go to google.
typing - autocomplete
first result wikipedia article
i'm at a moment here where i want to be able to edit (on phone).
MARK A PAGE TO BE EDITED
open link in new page, DOESN'T WORK. (Roan and Patrick saying its a known issue).
"what is this read button"
a, d, v, e buttons.
if there is a subject matter that i'm interested in, i'm going to remember it. i'm on wikipedia regularly. i put it in the back of my mind.

when did you make an account?
reading vs editing
login tools that i don't have access to: DYK check, related changes (sense of obligation to make sure nothing happens to the pages i've created, no vandalism. check 2ce a week for pages i've created - aren't too problematic to the articles), contributions editor (figure out what kind of contributor they are - sock puppets, s-p-a single purpose account, active user, new user).
what do you do if you see that? mouse over on all of the diffs
out and about - something to remember the article?
use twitter? tweet any wikipedia articles? all the time. especially if it's something on the main page. if it's something i follow.
i tweet about articles, especially if i follow them on wikipedia
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