Research:Mobile microcontributions
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Duration: 2014-08 – ??
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Overview[edit]
Crowdsourcing in Wikimedia projects[edit]
Wikipedia is often considered one of the best examples of a peer production system,[1] but is there any genuine example of crowdsourcing supported by the user interface in Wikipedia?
Edits vs microcontributions[edit]
Lay out the conceptual differences between an edit and a microcontribution
Mobile microcontributions[edit]
Why mobile interfaces are a great testbed for microcontributions
Use cases[edit]
Extract structured data[edit]
Highlight an article's most important sentence[edit]
Translate a sentence[edit]
Handcode a revision[edit]
Find the best image to illustrate an article[edit]
Experimental features[edit]
- WikiGrok is an experimental MediaWiki feature designed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Mobile team allowing readers of a Wikipedia article to extract and fill in structured data from this article. This feature is inspired by Magnus Manske's Wikidata game.[2] (read more)