The Connection team of the Wikimedia Foundation aims to improve how contributors connect and understand their impact. The team was formed in 2021, as part of theProduct department.
Initially, we focused on the needs ofcampaign and event organizers and participants. Over the years, our team has expanded focus to consider the many ways that contributors collaborate on the wikis, such as WikiProjects, meetups, and backlog drives. We are also interested in improving how contributors are recognized for their work and understand its impact. Overall, we hope to create a more enriching and connected experience for all contributors, so that they can have a greater sense of community and purpose on the wikis.
Collaborative contributions (project page): This project aims to create a new way to display collaborative contribution data on the wikis. This way, collaboration can be more engaging and rewarding, which we hypothesize can increase on-wiki collaboration and editor retention.
Released featuresː
Event registration (project page anduser guide): We have created an on-wiki tool that lets organizers add a 'Register' button to their event page. The event registration solution also includes many other features, such as: the option for participants to register privately, optional demographic information on participants, automatic confirmation emails after registration, the ability to mass email participants, integration with thePrograms & Events Dashboard, and more.
Collaboration List (project page andtransclusion user guide): The Collaboration List is a global, automated list of events on the wikis, and it is also a list of WikiProjects on a given local wiki. Organizers don’t need to do any extra work for their event or WikiProject to appear on the Collaboration List. As long as they useEvent Registration for their event, their event will appear in the Collaboration List. Meanwhile, as long as their WikiProject has a Wikidata item, the WikiProject will be included in the Collaboration List. The Collaboration List also includes filters, so users can easily search for specific types of events. It can be transcluded on other wikis pages.
Invitation lists (project page &user guide): Invitation lists helps organizers find people who might be interested in joining their projects or events. It works by looking at a list of articles that an organizer plans to focus on during an activity and then finding users to invite based on the following criteria: the bytes they contributed to the articles, the number of edits they made to the articles, their overall edit count on the wikis, and how recently they have edited the wikis.
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You can join theEvent Organizer group on Telegram, which is a multilingual chat group for organizers of events in the Wikimedia movement. We post announcements and updates about our team's work in the Telegram group, and we also take in feedback, such as feature requests and bug reports. Organizers are encouraged to share their updates, tools, and ideas in the group too.
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