Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/A tile for the Current events portal in the Wikipedia app

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/bn translation showing in Community Wishlist/Wishes

Please make the table show the original English-language version again instead of linking to the translated /bn page. (@JWheeler-WMF: presumably) Prototyperspective (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Divergence

On the face of it I like this wish, but I wonder about the wider Wikipedia community. The recent w:Wikipedia:Requests for comment/In the news criteria amendments is littered with comments supporting the removal of In the news from the Main page completely, let alone giving more prominence to w:Portal:Current events.

I am also concerned about who is going to maintain Current events, as it may end up the sole interest of app-using editors.

I am not trying to discourage this wish, and ideally non-app Wikipedia would lead the way with reader engagement. Commander Keane (talk) 03:15, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

The main issue I see with this proposal that could however be fixed and usually isn't a big issue: nested list not adapted to mobile

Good critique and interesting link.

1. Well I oppose removing it.
2. There a substantial issues with the In the news and Current events portal (some things are being featured that shouldn't be while some things aren't that should be; and also there is this issue with nested lists see image on the right) but these can be fixed by more contributors working on it better and e.g. things like criteria being established etc.
3. The In the news tile is most useful on the Main page. I would go as far as arguing it's the only useful and interesting on the Wikipedia main page and would argue to removing all the other ones: especially "Did you know ..." (useless irrelevant popculture trivia) but also "From today's featured article" (random picks and just one article albeit somewhat worth keeping), "On this day" (nobody reads these, does anybody?) and "Today's featured picture" (the 3000th random boring uneducational bird photo or aesthetic photo as if Wikipedia was some kind of art-site), since these are just trivial content or somewhat arbitrary.
4. The feed item would be voluntarily enabled and probably be disabled by default. This is just giving people the option to enable this if they want to see this.
5. The same people that currently maintain it more (hopefully) or less. It doesn't have very low views and nothing would change about it except it becoming more useful and getting integrated into the app.
6. More and more people are using smartphones to access Wikipedia and there is no explanation in your last paragraph. I however do think the Current events portal should also be better integrated into the Wikipedia Main page., e.g. by adding a button More events next to Nominate an article but I guess that would better be a separate proposal.

Prototyperspective (talk) 11:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)