User:Mapmaker345

I'm a Product Designer (UXD, UID) currently living in Dallas, Texas, soon to be moving to NYC. I think Wikipedia is an incredibly valuable tool that needs to be strengthened and improved.

I aspire to one day work for Wikipedia Design to help build future features to make it easier to spread knowledge to all.

My Interests

• Systems theory (portal)
• Network theory
• Percolation theory
• Social change
• Automation, post-scarcity, future studies

Feature Requests for Wikipedia

iOS App

• Show User Page as a normal article
• NavBox support

Visual Editor

• Improve template editing in Visual Editor
• Add support for Talk Pages

Tools: Page information

• Show maintenance tag status over time, to view how quickly an article is fixed
• Visualize a page's context within WikiProjects (similar to how the top of the talk page is used)

Improvements to the "View History" page

• Align elements vertically to make it more readable (a table view, without lines ... instead of a list view with non-aligned elements)
• Show small preview of before & after text changes, without having to click prev or cur buttons
• Wrap the +/- numbers inside of a colored box (like a stock ticker) so it's more visually apparent if it's green or red (green and red text on a white background that is sufficiently readable in terms of contrast is hard to distinguish between black text on a white background)

Better Wikidata Integrations

• Two-way sync between infoboxes and Wikidata objects.

Need to categorize

• I'd like to improve the Template:Infobox cocktail to include % of ingredients.
• Create a "Diagram Requested" template to improve overall diagram coverage across Wikipedia.
• Add a gradient view to the Template:Infobox planet to show where a planet sits in relation to the habitable zone.
• Design improved style of Wikipedia to look more modern, like that of Notion or Stripe.
• New Tool: Show number of times a page has been listed on the current events section