Pitch
Users can scrub a timeline to view article changes and meta information (editing history spark line); when you scrub to current time it live updates
User story
As a reader of Wikipedia, I would like to see how an article has changed over time so that I can better understand how Wikipedia articles evolve over time without being overwhelmed by too much granular information.
Proposed Design
While the goal will still be to have a visual approach to this experiment, one initial thought is to define what the important moments in article development are and to leverage those in the article view for a subset of popular (trending) or currently evolving articles.
Design details
For articles that are 'trending (eg. top read)' or 'in the news' consider additional treatments on the article view:
- Highlight the time the article was last updated with specific call outs for 'significant' updates
- Below the article infobox and/or first paragraph, add an interstitial card that highlights the last two 'significant' updates made to the article.
- Tapping on an update to an article section would scroll to the updated text in the article
- Tapping on an update to the talk page would open the talk page or an iOS specific presentation of the discussion (to be designed)
- Tapping on read more would open a view where the user can browse significant updates to the article (to be designed)
- Tapping on the username associated with an update would open the user's talk page in the app
Click through prototype
https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/public/share/6B14P19UPR#/screens/477249182
Mocks (iPhone)
| Header | Interstitial card | Recent changes view |
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| https://zpl.io/bzZD4PG | https://zpl.io/bzZD4PG | https://zpl.io/agJMwxQ |
Mocks (iPad)
| Portrait (no scroll) | Portrait (scrolled) | Landscape |
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| https://zpl.io/aMORAl7 | https://zpl.io/brwLBz1 | https://zpl.io/VkjeqJG |
Cell types
References
| Single reference added in a single section | Multiple references added to 2 sections | Multiple references added to 3+ sections |
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| https://zpl.io/aMORAl7 | https://zpl.io/brwLBz1 | https://zpl.io/VkjeqJG |
Characters added or deleted
| Characters added to a single section | Reverted vandalism | Characters removed in 1-2 sections | Characters removed in 3+ sections | Characters added and characters removed from a single section (snippet shows area of largest addition) |
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Misc
| Multiple types of changes | New discussion | Small changes | Title description added or changed (EN wiki, via template) | Title description added or changed (Wikidata) |
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Design details: Links + Buttons
| Button or link | Destination |
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| Editor name | User page (web view) |
| Thank | Thank flow ( T259555 ) |
| View changes | History view scrolled to specific change - highlighted |
| View discussion | Talk page (web view) -- ideally scrolled to discussion |
Design details: Summary text
- 'n' characters added and 'n' characters removed in the [section title] section
- 'n' characters added and 'n' characters removed in the [section 1] and [section 2] sections
- 'n' characters added and 'n' characters removed in 3 sections
- 1 reference added in the [section title] section
- 2 references added in the [section title] section
- Multiple references added in the [section title] section
- 2 references added in the [section 1] and [section 2] sections
- Multiple references added in 3 sections
Design details: Ordering listing for multiple event cells
- References added
- References removed
- Characters added
- Characters removed
