This task is about identifying the Wikipedias we will work most closely with in designing and developing mobile DiscussionTools.
Objectives
This section contains the objective of/reason for working with a subset of wikis as partners in the New Discussion Tool design and development processes.
Partner with a select number of wikis to help ensure mobile web talk pages enable:
- Junior Contributors to immediately recognize talk pages as places to communicate with other volunteers.
- Junior and Senior Contributors to be able to intuitively and with greater ease:
- a) Respond to something someone else has said
- b) Start a discussion about something new
- c) Know when someone is saying something relevant to them
Activities
Below is a non-exhaustive list of things we will collaborate with volunteers at our to-be-defined partner wikis on.
- Share feedback about issues they encounter with the mobile talk page experiences (read: MobileFrontend overlay + "Read as wiki page" view)
- Use mobile DiscussionTools once they are deployed to identify and share feedback about their experiences using them
- Identify areas for improvement or enhancements a future phase of the Talk Pages Project will consider
Links
- Project page: @ppelberg to publish and link here once done.
Partner Project Selection Criteria
The criteria in this section are borrowed from the Talk pages project/Partner wiki selection sheet.
- Wikis with some number of Senior Contributors who use mobile talk pages each month, so that we have a "built-in" audience we can approach about trialing new mobile DiscussionTool features. See T295180.
- Wikis that receive a consistent flow of newcomers each month, so that we can increase the likelihood the experiences we're designing meet Junior Contributors' needs
- Wikis whose contributor bases are representative of the world at-large, specifically people who are underrepresented in the Movement. [i]
- The above amounts to seeking a group of partner wikis that possess the following qualities:
- Write in an RTL language
- Write in a non-Latin script
- Contributor bases include significant populations of people from/living in East Asia and Africa
- The above amounts to seeking a group of partner wikis that possess the following qualities:
/Read: we are seeking wikis that that use RTL and LTR languages, wikis whose editors bases includes significant populations of people living in East Asia and Africa, non-Latin scripts.
Read: representation amongst RTL/LTR langauges, wikis whose editors bases includes significant populations of people living in East Asia and Africa, non-Latin scripts.
Partner wikis
| Wiki code | Volunteer contact | Link |
|---|---|---|
| jawiki | Omotecho? others? | 1, 2 |
| arwiki | @Dyolf77_WMF | 1 |
| frwiki | 1, 2 | |
| kowiki | 1 | |
| viwiki | 1 | |
| hewiki | 1 | |
| bnwiki | 1 | |
| zhwiki | 1 | |
| htwiki | Kitanago | 1 |
Done
- Defined a list of partner wiki candidates that meet the ===Selection criteria
- A minimum of three partner wikis have agreed to work with the Editing Team as "partner wikis" in designing and developing mobile DiscussionTools and more broadly, making improvements to mobile talk pages
i. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/Community_Insights_2021_Report