This task is for tracking and planning for the New editor experiences focus area for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019.
Please comment in this task if you have ideas or are already planning to do some work in this area!
From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Program#Focus_areas:
New editor experiences | All new Wikipedia editors must learn the technical side of MediaWiki environment, which has over years become more complex and sometimes less intuitive. Findings in this field were recently summarized in New Editor Experiences reports (and taken over by the Growth team). Some are of technical nature and could inspire participants of this year's hackathon to improve the technical environment used by thousands of editors worldwide.
The WMF Growth team has been working on these problems over the last year. Most of the Growth team will be at the Hackathon and we are excited to work with long-time and first-time contributors on New editor experiences tasks. If you're interested in this area of work please check out:
- Understanding First Day project and research findings
- Welcome Survey project and research findings
- New Editor Experiences research project
There will be a workshop on project ideas for new editor experiences (T220123: Workshop on project ideas for new editors experiences) and there are numerous related tasks (some small, some medium sized) that could be worked on at the Hackathon.