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Entrypoints to Event Center on Mobile web
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Overview: This ticket proposes to explore the different ways people can access the Events Center - whether to participate in an event or create a new one.

Event Center details: The Event Center will be a central place (accessible on any wiki) focused on campaign events. Other event types can also be featured in the event center, but the primary use case is campaigns. We imagine it as a 2-sided platform with an organizer side and participant side (but some features may be applicable to both organizers and participants). At first, we will just be building the Organizer Center with one featured tool (i.e., 'add registration to you event page'), but we will add more tools that we build over time. It will only be viewable to logged in users who qualify to be organizers (and we are still determining how organizer eligibility will work, depending on community input). As for the participant side, we will be building it later, but we imagine it will be viewable to a wider range of users. Some features (like seeing your individual impact/contributions in a campaign) will only be available to logged in users, but other features (like a central events calendar) may be available to all users, whether or not they are logged in.

Here are the current entry point ideas:

Option 1
Building upon this T286466, the Event Center can be added as a way to contribute under User Contributions.

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Option 2
The Event Center option is placed directly on the list of menu items

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Option 3
Event Center is one of the options in the user menu. This is currently the entry point on the desktop. The User Menu or Profile icon isn't visible by default, people have to go to settings and enable Advanced mode to see it.

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Event Timeline

@gonyeahialam I have added some details on the event center product vision into the ticket to give some context for people who read it; let me know if it sounds good to you or if you have any concerns. Also, are we ready to tag folks from the Language & Readers Web team on the ticket to get their feedback? Thanks!

@gonyeahialam I have added some details on the event center product vision into the ticket to give some context for people who read it; let me know if it sounds good to you or if you have any concerns. Also, are we ready to tag folks from the Language & Readers Web team on the ticket to get their feedback? Thanks!

Thanks for the addition. I have already tagged the team members.

Great, thank you so much, @gonyeahialam!

In that case, we would love feedback from @Pginer-WMF, @alexhollender_WMF, and @ovasileva on their recommendations, questions, or concerns related to the mobile entry-point for the Event Center. We are wondering:

  1. Do you think that all 3 entry-points that we listed are valid/acceptable for the team to consider? Any major concerns or things that would need to be in place (in terms of the product, its audience, its offerings) if we were to proceed with any of them?
  2. Do you recommend any one of the 3 options in particular -- why or why not?
  3. Anything else you would like to add?

Thank you in advance!

I think the three options are valid options to explore. Once the persistent entry point for contributions is available (option 1) I think it makes sense to include events there since this will be a general place for people looking for ways to contribute. To put it in reverse: why would we exclude events from the list we provide editors with the ways they can can contribute? Especially considering that events allow for a double kind of contribution: joining and creating an event.

I also think that makes perfect sense to expose events connected to the user. In the same way that "Contributions" is leading to your contributions, the "events" option can be interpreted as the place where you access your events (with options to join more). The current way that the "advanced mode" works on mobile is that when it is enabled there is a dedicated user menu (option 3), but when it is not enabled, the user options appear in the general navigation menu (option2). So option 2 and 3 seem to represent two states of the same solution.

I also think that presenting the option just as "Events" makes it more approachable for users than referring to the "Event Center". I think it is more meaningful to mention what users will get (e.g., notifications, contributions, etc.) rather than where it is provided or exposing them to product names (e.g., Notification panel, Contribution Center, etc.).
Also the calendar icon seems useful to clarify the meaning (in option 1 the article document was used instead, which is less clear).