Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Add Wikipedia Mobile App’s Reading List & Saved Articles to the Website
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FYI Feature is available on web
[edit]A limited (read only) web version of this does exist at mw:Special:ReadingLists so a lot of the work here has already been done it just needs to be rolled out to a wider audience. Jdlrobson (talk) 04:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- @SiliconDon just curious - have you given this mw:Special:ReadingLists feature a try? JWheeler-WMF (talk) 18:22, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah I have, but thanks for the reminder. I always forget that it’s there. Integration with the main Wikipedia site would be my preferred solution – perhaps in the toolbar or sidebar. SiliconDon (talk) 23:10, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
If this is a private list only visible to the logged in user, this sounds like an unobjectionable but redundant reimplementation of browser bookmarks?
If there was any thought of making ReadingLists or other content public, be aware that a project called "Gather" failed several years ago. It would be important to fully review and fully take into account the failure of that project before making any sort of public lists. I'll try to give a brief explanation. Foundation staff thought sharable article lists was a neat feature for user engagement and social media sharing. They assumed the community would police it for any offensive/abusive/illegal content. The Foundation built the project without even informing the community. Oops. When the community learned of it, the community viewed the lists as essentially "privately owned / privately controlled" content, and was unwilling to police it for offensive/abusive/illegal content. For complicated reasons the community was unwilling/unable to establish standards for policing the content, and for obvious reasons they were less than eager to provide unpaid labor policing some yahoo's racist-themed social media content or someone's personal boobies-list. The drudge work of cleaning up garbage in article space is part of our Noble Public Service Encyclopedia mission, and drudge work policing Talk pages and other community pages is maintenance of our workspace in service of our primary mission. But policing people's personal content was viewed like being an unpaid Facebook moderator or unpaid Twitter moderator. Alsee (talk) 02:46, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- It’s only visible to the logged-in user. Browser bookmarks are fine, but they don’t integrate with the Wikipedia app’s reading list. There was a now defunct extension that allowed desktop browser access, but currently these lists are only writable within the app. Since they’re private by design and not shared, moderation concerns like those raised with Gather aren’t really relevant here. Adding it to the site would make the feature more useful to app users. SiliconDon (talk) 07:58, 1 May 2025 (UTC)