As an organizer, I want to be able to generate a list of editors who may be interested in joining my event, so that I can then invite them and have more people attend my events.
As an editor, I want to learn about editing events that focus on my topics of interest, so that I can use my skills and knowledge for a worthwhile cause or initiative and so that I can connect with people and communities that share my interests.
Background: As part of our Event Discovery work, we plan to develop an MVP of Invitation Lists. We made this decision after first conducting an experiment on the potential impact of Invitation Lists and the potential interest that organizers would have in using such a tool (see findings). We wrapped up the experiment with the conclusion that we would like to build a simple MVP of Invitation Lists.
With Invitation Lists, we want to help event organizers reach out to new audiences of editors who may be interested in their events. This way, we hypothesize that more people can register for events and make impactful contributions. To do this, we will generate an Invitation List, which is a list of editors who the organizer can choose to invite to their event.
For the Invitation Lists MVP, we will not provide support for messaging editors (so that organizers can invite them to events) or many other potential feature improvements. However, feature improvements will be considered after the MVP release, and they are documented in T364796.
Project Goal: Develop an MVP for Invitation Lists, so that users with the Event Organizer right on Wikipedia wikis where the CampaignEvents extension is enabled can generate Invitation Lists. This way, we can a) help organizers reach new audiences, so they can get more people join their events and make contributions on high impact topics along with other general interest topics, and b) get an early version out to users so they can begin testing it and providing feedback on how to improve it. We should focus on delivering something usable and useful, but perfection is not the goal.
Timeline: We would like to try to build an MVP for Invitation Lists within about 8 weeks (i.e., 4 sprints). This does not include the release, but rather focuses on the main engineering work. If this is not possible, we can discuss trimming the scope or the timeline. This is something to discuss with the team.