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Identify which wikiprojects are active on ko.wp and cs.wp
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Growth team plans to survey newcomers to ask them their interests. This will be through T206375: Personalized first day: write survey copy and (less) T206711: [EPIC] Growth: help panel.

In the future, we may use such a survey to direct newcomers to wikiprojects, where a specialist in their interest could be found.

Therefore, we think that the right way to ask newcomers about their interests is to allow them to choose from a list of wikiprojects.
The goal of this task is to identify and make a list (in English) of wikiprojects. Because there are many many wikiprojects, we think the list should include:

  • All the "top level" wikiprojects (e.g. "WikiProject Science", but not "WikiProject Biology")
  • Any additional WikiProjects that are particularly active.
  • An indication of which WikiProjects are particularly active.

This task focuses first on Korean and Czech wikis.

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Oct 17 2018, 3:05 PM
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Trizek-WMF moved this task from Inbox to FY 2019-20 on the Growth-Team board.Oct 17 2018, 3:31 PM
Trizek-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 17 2018, 3:39 PM
MMiller_WMF added a parent task: T206375: Personalized first day: write survey copy.Oct 17 2018, 4:36 PM
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RHo mentioned this in T206372: Personalized first day: design survey experience.Oct 18 2018, 12:16 AM
JTannerWMF moved this task from Incoming to Ready for Development on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Oct 18 2018, 3:14 AM
RHo added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 10:17 AM

Re-posting on this ticket, thanks @revi :)

In T206372#4676834, @revi wrote:

List of Wikiprojects by activity: (incomplete right now) 사용자:Revi (WMF)/LOW

revi added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 11:06 AM

>.>

List is now complete.

RHo added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 2:59 PM

@MMiller_WMF @Trizek-WMF - during design review today, Pau suggested another potential avenue might be to pull topics from the "Vital articles" list:

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Oct 19 2018, 2:34 PM

@MMiller_WMF, if that idea of Personalized First day becomes a permanent feature, how are we going to update the projects that are active or have became inactive?

Urbanecm added a comment.Oct 19 2018, 2:35 PM
In T207290#4680506, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

@MMiller_WMF, if that idea of Personalized First day becomes a permanent feature, how are we going to update the projects that are active or have became inactive?

Uninvited response: What about a page in MediaWiki namespace and let admin to deal with it?

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Oct 22 2018, 9:28 AM
In T207290#4680507, @Urbanecm wrote:

Uninvited response: What about a page in MediaWiki namespace and let admin to deal with it?

That's the option I had in mind too but I wanted to see if another option was considered.

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Oct 24 2018, 8:15 AM

Another way to match newcomers and experienced users on a common topic is to use userboxes. However, as @revi told us yesterday, they are not used on every wiki (they are not used on ko.wp).

MMiller_WMF moved this task from Ready for Development to In Progress on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Oct 24 2018, 5:51 PM
Trizek-WMF added a comment.Oct 25 2018, 9:33 AM

What if a topic is not covered by a wiki project? Wikipeojects can be selective and sometimes, the field of knowledge you want to contribute to is an intersection of a couple of projects (or more).

A (fictional) example: I want to edit about K-pop on fr.wp. How can I know that I have to select both projects "Electronic Music" and "South Korea"?

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Oct 29 2018, 1:30 PM

As @Urbanecm has surfaced it through a Czech to Slovenian translation wikiproject, people can also wish translate. How can we surface translations through the wikiproject but how can we surface it overall?

Trizek-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Oct 29 2018, 1:59 PM
Trizek-WMF closed subtask T207471: Identify which wikiprojects are active on cs.wp as Resolved.

There are still questions, but they have been surfaced during the identification process. They are more for the next steps than the project itself.
The work is done, so is the current task.

MMiller_WMF added a comment.Oct 30 2018, 12:50 AM

In T206372#4704996, I listed the topics we decided to use for this survey question, along with the reasoning for why they were chosen.

Tgr mentioned this in T208369: Welcome survey: anonymize data after one year.Nov 19 2019, 3:03 AM
Urbanecm edited subscribers, added: Urbanecm_WMF; removed: Urbanecm.Aug 26 2020, 3:25 PM
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