User:Casliber has started an editing contest on the English Wikipedia focused on improving or adding lead (intro) sections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Take_the_lead! (open until this Sunday, January 31)
Notably, the invitation cites mobile readers as a motivation: "Many articles on the English Wikipedia have deficient or poorly written leads that do not summarise the article or present the information in an engaging manner. With increased mobile phone usage, this is becoming more of an issue, because mobile interfaces often show the lead alone, with other sections collapsed." I added the subsequent sentence, to support this point with data from the analysis that JonR and I did some weeks ago for the MobileWebSectionUsage data. This also lead to some interesting community discussion in several places, and someone added that chart to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_and_manage_a_good_lead_section . It's a great example of how we can support editors' work with readership data beyond mere pageviews (I also submitted a Wikimania talk about this topic earlier this month). -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
