This page is the project hub for 'gather', a new curation experiment for Wikipedia and MediaWiki mobile sites. The first experiment in this project is a pilot feature for providing readers with an opportunity to create and share lists of articles. The project is being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile web team.
To learn more, read below, or check out our Trello boards:
In addition to launching a new feature that we hope will delight our users and other stakeholders, this project is a vehicle to further explore areas of great potential:
File:Collections mock.pngEarly stage mockup of mobile product viewNew ways to contribute: through curation, wikipedia readers who are not interested in traditional editing can have meaningful, creative interactions with our content
Personal: gives users a way to make content more relevant for them "Peter's list of most important Philosophers" is not subject to consensus or editing by others. For the time being, a list will only be accessible via shared url.
Shareable: this project will experiment with the ability to use Wikipedia to share ones' perspective with others and, in doing so, encourage new users to engage
[Future] Browseable: because each list is not exhaustive, there is a possibility of using popular lists to promote meaningful content. It's nice to know the full list of statisticians is there, but I might want to find a subset that have been picked out by a human for one reason or another.
More specifically, we want to know if any of these levers drive:
