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An 'Explore' home page similar to the desktop Main landing-page #5624
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Hi @prototyperspective , thanks for your feedback! I'm curious if you have tried the "Explore" feature of the app yet, and if you have, how do you think it can be improved specifically? For instance, is it just the lack of customization that is the issue for you, or the way the UI is laid out, or the fact that it's not the "home" page? Just to address this:
AFAIK the WMF is not spending any resources on this app at the moment, and hasn't been since 2022. We're maintained solely by volunteers at this time. |
Yes, I have used the Explore page of course which is why I created the issue – it merely shows a feed of random good-quality photos. I thought that page is already the default home page, at least for me it's the default page. What can be improved specifically is what meant with "a proper Explore home page that shows interesting contents for users to have some reason to actually use (and keep using) the app and discover contents" in broad terms which I intended to specify with examples in the paragraph of "Recently uploaded files featured in many Mediawiki pages"….
It's a really horrible situation and I can't understand why the WMF with its millions of donated money puts barely any funds behind the development of the piling backlog of bugs to fix and features+wishes to implement. Thanks for working on this as volunteers…even more reason for a dev-campaign-banner to get more volunteer developers involved displayed at the top of IT-related Wikipedia articles. |
Below are the different sections I see on my Wikipedia app home activity. Please everyone post ideas for sections that would be interesting for the Commons app. Thanks! |
Maybe it would easier/quicker to just show the Wikimedia Commons Main page until this is implemented which would be incredibly useful and is kind of expected. See the issue #5772 about that Thanks for these screenshots, that's what I mean. However, it would be better if those images were smaller. I've edited the post to add all the ideas I had and I think the more modules/tiles people can enable there and personalize it to their liking, the more interesting the app would become and the more users there would be. Even the Wikipedia app shows a tile for "Picture of the day" but it's missing in the Commons app and just a page showing that would be good place to start implementing a feed that could then be added the the app (it doesn't have the be the landing page right away before there are more modules). I think a Home Feed to explore is one of the three main key features – the other two being enabling uploads and enabling browsing categories/searching. Just imagine if Twitter/X had no home feed, nobody would use it and I think the usefulness for WMC is pretty much comparable except for those who only use it to upload their smartphones photos. |
What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?
The Wikimedia Commons app needs a proper Explore home page that shows interesting contents for users to have some reason to actually use (and keep using) the app and discover contents.
It could be similar to the Discover page of the Wikipedia app and maybe use parts of its code. It could incorporate tiles of the desktop home page and make it possible to add or remove which tiles are shown (like for the Wikipedia app).
Which things are shown there could be discussed separately and should be customizable anyway – I never found desktop-WMC's "Media of the day" or "Picture of the day" interesting/useful or usually reasonable for example. One could show modular Tiles like these:
How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?
It's important because of these benefits:
I think this could be the most important issue in regards to WMC on mobile (with mobile rising in importance as more and more users are browsing or contributing via mobile phones).
Who will benefit from it?
The entire open media ecosystem and online global education such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons as well as WMC app users and WMC users due to better and more contributions as well as more discoverable contents. Here are some use-cases and ways of how:
Anything else you would like to add?
No response
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