Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

I think that navigating related content is a key part of the Wikipedia experience [1][2] and surfacing related articles is really great. I'll check this to see how each method works on different articles. I was also thinking a bit about how we could present this to users, and there may be options

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

In the future we want to see how we can improve relatedness by learning what the most used article linkpath patterns are. For example, If we know that "feline dwarfism " link is being clicked most frequently from Grumpy Cat article, we'd want to learn that p

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

Very interesting exercise! This is one of those mobile-initiated features that desktop users would welcome as well. Just curious: have you considered to use data from Special:WhatLinksHere? Incoming links are less evident than outgoing links. They might help users discovering pages with less obvi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

That makes sense, as long as we don't keep suggesting the same articles I think its fine. *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Yuvi Panda wr

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I thought Closer meant random+Geonearby > Heh, I was just randomly making names up. Was not initially planning on pushing this out wider than just May, but figured it'd be a good idea. > > I'd recommend th

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

I thought Closer meant random+Geonearby I'd recommend this isn't a button but a list— Related: Item Title Item Title Item Title Nearby: Item Title Item Title Item Title For related we use the Meow method, then switch to the Linky Method when the data exists. but always remove any pages that th

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > What does Meow, Linky, Closer mean? > 'Meow' is Category based - it picks an article with the following process: 1. Pick a non-hidden category of the current page at random 2. Pick an article in that categ

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

What does Meow, Linky, Closer mean? *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:19 AM, May Tee-Galloway wrote: > -buries face- > > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 201

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

-buries face- On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > Insert by: > > 1. Click on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js > 2. Click 'Create' to create the page > 3. Paste the following text into it: > > importScript("User:Yuvipanda/lost.js"); > > 4. Click save! > >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

Insert by: 1. Click on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js 2. Click 'Create' to create the page 3. Paste the following text into it: importScript("User:Yuvipanda/lost.js"); 4. Click save! Our userscript enabling 'UI' is terrible and hacked up. Something that we could perhaps

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

Go to the talk page and insert: importScript("User:Yuvipanda/lost.js"); then save! On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Vibha Bamba wrote: > newbie q - Where exactly do I add the code? > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > >> P.S. The code is terrible. Please don't flame me

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

newbie q - Where exactly do I add the code? On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > P.S. The code is terrible. Please don't flame me for it. > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > > ___ > Design mailing list > des...@lists.wikimed

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

P.S. The code is terrible. Please don't flame me for it. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Experimenting with different ways of finding 'related' articles

Hello! Me and May have been experimenting with different ways of finding articles related to the one the user is currently reading. This is a feature we are considering for the mobile app - to make it simple to keep going through to related articles after reading the current one. Mediawiki doesn't