User story & summary:
As a new editor visiting my Newcomer homepage, I want to see community updates relevant to new editors, so that I can deepen my involvement in the wikis.
Project details:
This epic includes adding one new Community Configurable module for the Newcomer homepage:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_Updates
Background
This epic is a step towards supporting the WMF Annual Plan Objective around WE1.3.
As new editors progress in their involvement on the wikis, the Newcomer homepage should evolve and offer more complex tasks that also encourage new editors to engage in more meaningful ways. This new task can be used to help bring attention to content gaps on high-impact topics, which aligns with the 2030 Movement strategy’s “Topics for Impact” recommendation.
The Growth team previously created a simple banner module: T269804: Banner module on the Growth homepage. This epic includes making improvements to that banner to make this feature more useful to communities and new editors.
Examples of how the legacy banner is used, via Global search Growth-homepage-banner:
Designs:
Community updates: Figma designs.
Mobile:
Desktop:
Scope of this Epic:
This Epic includes:
- All tasks related to the initial MVP release of this feature to pilot wikis.
- All tasks related to high-priority interative improvements (high-priority tasks requested by pilot wikis).
- All tasks related to instrumentation and experimentation related to this new module.
- All tasks related to scaling this feature (if experiment is successful).
This Epic does NOT include:
- All follow-up second-iteration improvements: T365890: [EPIC] Community updates module - second iteration improvement ideas