The initial version of the newcomer homepage feature was built in T213990 with seven initial modules: account creation, email, tutorial, userpage, help, mentorship, and impact.
The next homepage element being developed is "newcomer tasks", with work happening in T227728.
This epic contains tasks with ideas for other homepage modules.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T229865 [EPIC] Growth: newcomer homepage additional modules | |||
| Open | None | T223611 Homepage: Watchlist module | |||
| Open | None | T222446 Homepage: culture module | |||
| Open | None | T229866 Homepage: activity feed by topic | |||
| Open | None | T229868 Homepage: interactive tutorial module | |||
| Open | None | T229869 Homepage: feedback module | |||
| Open | None | T230453 Homepage: program-specific module | |||
| Open | None | T230475 Homepage: events module | |||
| Resolved | Tgr | T269804 Banner module on the Growth homepage | |||
| Resolved | Tgr | T270297 [regression] Growth-homepage-banner is not visible anymore on Arabic Wikipedia | |||
| Resolved | kostajh | T270309 Instrument banner module on newcomer homepage | |||
| Open | None | T282346 Homepage: topic module | |||
| Resolved | JFernandez-WMF | T336271 Homepage: Revised Banner module design | |||
| Resolved | JFernandez-WMF | T358056 Homepage: Localized WE1.3 module designs |
Because the team is prioritizing "newcomer tasks" (T227728), these additional modules would not be a priority until later in the year (if at all).
By any chance, can they be developed as side projects by volunteers, or would it be too complicated because of metrics (evaluation of impact) or community engagement (documentation and community appropriation)? If the latter, they should be declined, unless if we document the condition to have them created somewhere.
@Trizek-WMF @Aklapper -- it would be great if volunteers want to work on any of these ideas, and the Growth team would try to support it!
In that case, where is the documentation how a contributor can create additional modules?
@Aklapper there is no public facing documentation. The relevant code is in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EGRE/browse/master/includes/HomepageModules/ and is relatively straightforward. If someone not on Growth-Team is interested to create a module, please ping me (and/or comment here) and I'd be happy to work with you.