Research:Mobile microcontributions
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Overview
editCrowdsourcing in Wikimedia projects
editWikipedia is often considered one of the best examples of a peer production system,[1] but is there any genuine example of crowdsourcing supported by the user interface in Wikipedia?
Edits vs microcontributions
editLay out the conceptual differences between an edit and a microcontribution
Mobile microcontributions
editWhy mobile interfaces are a great testbed for microcontributions
Use cases
editExtract structured data
editHighlight an article's most important sentence
editTranslate a sentence
editHandcode a revision
editFind the best image to illustrate an article
editExperimental features
edit- WikiGrok is an experimental MediaWiki feature designed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Mobile team allowing readers of a Wikipedia article to extract and fill in structured data from this article. This feature is inspired by Magnus Manske's Wikidata game.[2] (read more)