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Epic: Migration of some GrowthExperiments features into MediaWiki core
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From 2018-2022, the Growth team developed a variety of features related to activating and retaining newcomer editors.

Some of those features and/or the components used to build those features could potentially be moved into MediaWiki core. The reasons to do so are:

  • these components are useful to multiple use-cases
  • out-of-the-box behavior in MediaWiki is improved with these features
  • we might see further development of these components in a shared repository (mediawiki/core) rather than in GrowthExperiments extension, which tends to have contributions only from Growth team engineers

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 DeclinedNoneT327655 Epic: Migration of some GrowthExperiments features into MediaWiki core
 OpenNoneT323151 Unified help panel for MediaWiki
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT323811 [EPIC] Community configuration 2.0: Factor Community configuration out of GrowthExperiments
 ResolvedJFernandez-WMFT334312 Community configuration: design improvements
 ResolvedJFernandez-WMFT338386 Community configuration: comparative review
 ResolvedJFernandez-WMFT346109 Community configuration: interactive prototype
 ResolvedTrizek-WMFT336608 Growth team annual planning: Community feedback
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT341884 Community configuration: Define architecture of the system
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT342575 Community configuration: Write specifications for the schema provider
 ResolvedSpikeUrbanecm_WMFT332847 [Spike] Investigate JSON structure validation options for community configuration
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT342752 Community configuration: Write specifications for the Configuration store
 ResolvedSgsT343072 Community configuration: Write specifications for the Editing form
 ResolvedSpikeSgsT332849 [Spike] Investigate form generation options for community configuration
 ResolvedMichaelT370534 Decision on how UI schema abstraction should work
 OpenNoneT373860 PoC allow consumers to customize the form using a UI schema
 DuplicateNoneT342184 Community configuration: usability tests
 DeclinedNoneT342967 Give teams a schema to save their configuration to allow automatic consumption when Community Configuration UI is deployed
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT344144 Community configuration 2.0: Start a RfC around Schema provider and validation
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT348224 Community configuration 2.0: Create proof of concept version of the extension
 ResolvedSgsT348227 Community configuration 2.0: Create a proof of concept version of validation
 ResolvedSgsT348230 Community configuration 2.0: Create an example client extension
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT350079 Community configuration 2.0: Add initial support for on-wiki config store
 ResolvedNov 8 2023Urbanecm_WMFT349757 [RFC] Community configuration 2.0: Validating site configuration
 ResolvedJFernandez-WMFT350728 Community Configuration 2.0: Design Guidelines
OpenNoneT350731 Community Configuration: Monitoring & Contingency plan
 ResolvedMichaelT357535 Community configuration: Create a maintenance script for configuration changes
 ResolvedMichaelT371678 Allow sysadmins to make an empty edit to a configuration provider
 OpenNoneT367516 Community Configuration: Create Emergency Shutdown option
 ResolvedMichaelT374428 Test validity of Community Configuration schemas via CI
 ResolvedMichaelT378092 CI: Make CommunityConfiguration a dependency of Automoderator
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT374431 Write a maintenance script to generate a list of defaults to use during Emergency Shutdown
 OpenNoneT376985 Allow extensions to define where emergency defaults are stored
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT376983 Do not consider dynamic defaults for emergency defaults
 OpenNoneT350742 Community Configuration: localized video tutorial
 OpenNoneT350859 Explore testing of configuration changes in a live MW instance before usage in production
 DuplicateNoneT351877 Consider upgrading opis/json-schema to version 2.3
 DeclinedNoneT351878 Consider downgrading opis/json-schema to version 1.1
 OpenNoneT351879 Support i18n in validation errors
 ResolvedJdforrester-WMFT319054 Upgrade vendor's copy of opis/json-schema to 2.x
 ResolvedSgsT353230 Community configuration 2.0: Switch to justinrainbow/json-schema for schema validation
 DuplicateNoneT354208 Community Configuration: blank edit summary reminder
 DeclinedNoneT354364 Verify performance of schema loading
 DeclinedNoneT354366 Ensure the schema path is relative to the extension directory (not extensions)
 ResolvedSgsT354390 Community Configuration 2.0 dashboard
 ResolvedCyndymediawiksimT354463 Community Configuration Edit Summary
 ResolvedJFernandez-WMFT358035 Community Configuration: Design Diff for Edit Summary
OpenNoneT362285 Community Configuration: Add Character count to Edit Summary
 ResolvedSgsT355317 Community configuration 2.0: migrate Special:EditGrowthConfig
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT360473 Growth features: Migrate Homepage settings from Special:EditGrowthConfig to Community configuration 2.0
 ResolvedSgsT360472 Growth features: Migrate Help panel settings from Special:EditGrowthConfig to Community configuration 2.0
 ResolvedSgsT357708 Namespaces selector control
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT360471 Growth features: Migrate Suggested edits from Special:EditGrowthConfig to Community configuration 2.0
 ResolvedJFernandez-WMFT356606 Community Configuration: finalize copy and update designs
 ResolvedSgsT356622 Community configuration 2.0 editing form MVP
 OpenNoneT358659 Client side form validation
 ResolvedMichaelT360921 Support required properties in schemas
 ResolvedMichaelT362042 Community configuration: Introduce validation warnings
 OpenBUG REPORTNoneT367829 [wmf.9] CommunityConfiguration: Summary edits popup appears for non-valid edits
DuplicateNoneT356856 Allow providers to define a custom form
 OpenNoneT356857 Allow providers to add custom fields
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT359124 Feature flag in GrowthExperiments extension - for community configuration testing
 ResolvedhasharT360181 Add CommunityConfiguration as a Phan dependency for GrowthExperiments
 OpenNoneT360082 Community Configuration: support providers that are editable by non-admins.
 ResolvedKStoller-WMFT360571 CommunityConfiguration Extension Release Plan
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT357766 Deploy Community configuration to beta wiki
 ResolvedSgsT354360 Community configuration: Migrate repository to gerrit
 ResolvedmmartoranaT349568 Application Security Review Request : Community Configuration
 ResolvedRaymondT357767 Add CommunityConfiguration extension to translatewiki.net
 ResolvedKStoller-WMFT360383 Add CommunityConfiguration to the Developers/Maintainers list
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT360954 Deploy CommunityConfiguration to testwiki
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT366519 CommunityConfiguration: WikiPageConfigReader should not log WARNINGs when encountering a provider it does not support
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT364895 Enable CommunityConfiguration on pilot wikis: Arabic & Spanish Wikipedia: Jun 17, 2024
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT366458 CommunityConfiguration: Release extension to all Wikipedias with GrowthExperiments
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT368121 Community Configuration: Release extension to "round 1" Wikipedias
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT366629 CommunityConfiguration: Release extension to Indonesian Wikipedia
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT368310 CommunityConfiguration: Release extension to Portuguese Wikipedia (ptwiki)
 ResolvedBUG REPORTMichaelT369277 Provider GrowthSuggestedEdits is not supported on wiktionary sites
 ResolvedSgsT370261 Release CommunityConfiguration extension to dewiki
 OpenNoneT370611 CommunityConfiguration: `Add a link (Structured task)` fix handling when "backend" is enabled & "frontend" is disabled
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT366691 Create beta frwiktionary
 ResolvedEtonkovidovaT362728 [QA task] Community Configuration - testing in production
ResolvedSgsT364892 Enable CommunityConfiguration on all beta wikis with GrowthExperiments
 ResolvedSgsT359038 Script to migrate current GrowthExperiments config schemas into new structure
 ResolvedSgsT365612 Growth features: Add Levelling up related configuration
 ResolvedSgsT365606 List of infobox templates in Special:CommunityConfiguration/GrowthSuggestedEdits is ignored
 OpenNoneT359608 Community Configuration: update copy and QQQ descriptions for TranslateWiki.net
 ResolvedSgsT369711 Release CommunityConfiguration to French Wiktionary
 OpenNoneT367133 Community Configuration: Save Changes Edit Summary improvements
 ResolvedSgsT367574 [Epic] Remove code for Special:EditGrowthConfig
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT367575 Structured Mentor list should load its data using the CommunityConfiguration extension
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT368739 CommunityConfiguration: Allow client extensions to provide their own tag names
 ResolvedBUG REPORTUrbanecm_WMFT368741 CommunityConfiguration's WikiPageStore does not support non-object input
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT367576 Ensure ORES topics are not loaded through legacy CommunityConfiguration code
 ResolvedMichaelT380586 [EPIC] Ensure GrowthExperiments CI pipeline is using CommunityConfiguration to run tests
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT369709 Switch `GEUseCommunityConfigurationExtension` to `true` in extension.json
 ResolvedMichaelT380585 Run ApiStructureTest with CommunityConfiguration extension enabled
 ResolvedMichaelT380581 Migrate GrowthExperiments selenium tests to CommunityConfiguration 2.0
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT380580 Migrate ComputedUserImpactLookupTest test to CommunityConfiguration 2.0
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT384423 Migrate GrowthExperiments API tests to CommunityConfiguration 2.0
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT383330 Deprecate calling legacy Community Configuration
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT383329 Drop support for morelike support from GrowthExperiments
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT384225 Discontinue the initWikiConfig.php maintenance script in GrowthExperiments
 ResolvedCyndymediawiksimT384229 Cover CommunityStructuredMentorProvider and CommunityStructuredMentorWriter by appropriate tests
 ResolvedBUG REPORTMichaelT386629 Enforce GrowthConfigValidation::MAX_TEMPLATES_IN_COLLECTION using CommunityConfiguration
 ResolvedCyndymediawiksimT386692 Cover CommunityConfigurationLoader and ConfigurationValidator by appropriate tests
 OpenNoneT388516 Retire legacy config pages
 ResolvedCyndymediawiksimT388787 Remove now unused PHP config settings
 ResolvedSgsT389254 Refactor to consolidate PHP abstractions after removal of Special:EditGrowthConfig code
 ResolvedSgsT388227 De-facto remove code for Special:EditGrowthConfig
 ResolvedSgsT390167 Avoid per-wiki topic configuration GENewcomerTasksOresTopicConfig
 ResolvedTrizek-WMFT363952 Community Configuration: Release communication
 ResolvedTrizek-WMFT350629 Community Configuration 2.0: Help documentation for communities
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT368275 Abusefilter prevented GrowthExperiments Migration script from running
 OpenNoneT368591 Suggested edits Community Configuration: Improve UX for autocompletion
 ResolvedTgrT325655 Replace SpecialCreateAccountCampaign.php with proper hook
 DuplicateNoneT327679 Move Emailability code from GrowthExperiments to MediaWiki core
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT396155 [Epic] Improve verification email (WE1.1.22 FY2025-26)
 ResolvedKStoller-WMFT400843 Product Analytics: Improve verification email - measure email verification rate before and after copy changes
 ResolvedKStoller-WMFT409012 Improve verification email: Release Plan
 DuplicateNoneT410471 Improve verification email: Release to all MediaWiki wikis
 ResolvedCyndymediawiksimT410807 Improve other verification related emails: add email, change email, remove email
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT410970 Improve verification email: release to English Wikipedia
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT410971 Improve verification email: release to Commons and Wikidata
 ResolvedUrbanecm_WMFT411147 Remove emailability code from GrowthExperiments
 DeclinedNoneT413130 Improve verification email - copy changes to consider prior to full release
 ResolvedBUG REPORTUrbanecm_WMFT413435 Special:ConfirmEmail does not resend a working email token
 ResolvedCyndymediawiksimT413131 New "Confirm your email" email looks broken on Fastmail
 ResolvedMichaelT416748 Release improved verification email to all wikis (WE1.1.22 FY2025-26)
 OpenNoneT329052 Generalize the "wikibreak" feature for mentors, so it is available for all users

Event Timeline

kostajh created this task.Jan 23 2023, 2:15 PM
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kostajh added a subtask: T323151: Unified help panel for MediaWiki.Jan 23 2023, 2:15 PM
kostajh added a subtask: T323811: [EPIC] Community configuration 2.0: Factor Community configuration out of GrowthExperiments.
kostajh added a subtask: T325655: Replace SpecialCreateAccountCampaign.php with proper hook.
kostajh added a parent task: T311850: [Epic] FY 2022-23 Growth Maintenance Work.Jan 23 2023, 2:18 PM
kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Needs Discussion on the Growth-Team board.
Tgr added a subtask: T327679: Move Emailability code from GrowthExperiments to MediaWiki core.Jan 24 2023, 6:38 AM
kostajh added a project: Epic.Jan 27 2023, 2:26 PM
kostajh moved this task from Needs Discussion to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.Feb 8 2023, 11:45 AM
kostajh closed subtask T325655: Replace SpecialCreateAccountCampaign.php with proper hook as Resolved.Mar 1 2023, 8:26 PM
DMburugu edited parent tasks, added: T340453: [Epic] FY 2023-24 Growth Maintenance Work; removed: T311850: [Epic] FY 2022-23 Growth Maintenance Work.Jun 26 2023, 4:49 PM
DMburugu removed a parent task: T340453: [Epic] FY 2023-24 Growth Maintenance Work.Jun 13 2024, 4:15 PM
KStoller-WMF closed subtask T323811: [EPIC] Community configuration 2.0: Factor Community configuration out of GrowthExperiments as Resolved.Sep 17 2025, 8:37 PM
Urbanecm_WMF mentioned this in T437243: Ensure all tasks tagged with #growth-team also have a valid component tag.Sep 7 2026, 4:50 PM
Urbanecm_WMF added a project: GrowthExperiments.Sep 14 2026, 10:57 AM
Urbanecm_WMF added subscribers: KStoller-WMF, Urbanecm_WMF.

To be honest, I would rather see features getting broken down to small(ish) single-purpose extensions (like we did with MediaWiki-extensions-CommunityConfiguration and are doing with MediaWiki-extensions-ImpactModule). Moving to core specifically may or may not be a good idea, and should be a call to make ad hoc with specific features. CC @KStoller-WMF, on what we want to do with the epic.

KStoller-WMF closed this task as Declined.Sep 15 2026, 2:12 AM

I think we can decline as I imagine we would create a separate epic for a specific feature to break out or move to core rather than approach this as one giant project anyway.

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