As a member of the Campaigns team, I want to be able to work with some of the people behind WikiProjects in an effort to expand the Event List to be a Collaboration List that includes WikiProjects, so I can learn more about how to engage with WikiProjects for product development.

As a user of the Collaboration List, I want to be able find communities that I can join on my wiki, so that I can find a sense of belonging and group identity.

As an organizer of a WikiProject, I want to be able to easily promote my WikiProject in a central place, so that more people can discover my WikiProject.

Background: In Q1, we are aiming to expand the Event List to become a Collaboration List. To do this, we are aiming to highlight at least 15 WikiProjects distributed between at least 3 different wikis. In doing this work, we can learn more about what WikiProjects need from us today and in the future, which can help drive our hypothesis work after Q1.

Problems we are trying to solve:

• Discovery of WikiProjects: Right now, many contributors on the wikis do not know that WikiProjects exist, which is unfortunate because WikiProjects are places where they can find other like-minded people and work on tasks together on topics they care about. Other people do know that WikiProjects exist, but they do not know how to find them or which ones are the most active/alive and dynamic.
• Promotion of WikiProjects: Many of the organizers behind WikiProjects do not have easy ways of promoting and sharing their WikiProjects, so their projects are more likely to grow dormant or be less active over time since they may be invisible to people who may be interested if they knew they existed.
• Internal knowledge & understanding of WikiProjects: We do not know enough about the current needs, pain points, and opportunity areas as experienced by WikiProject organizers today. We do, however, know that many of them are struggling and dormant and the status quo is not working. For this reason, we want to find ways to start incorporating WikiProjects into our product development work in small, iterative ways, so that we can begin working with Wikiproject organizers to build solutions for them and, through that, learn over time what our larger vision or strategy can be for the future of WikiProjects and spaces for collaborative work on the wikis.

How do we know we’ve been successful?

• Editors can understand what WikiProjects are
• Editors can easily find WikiProjects that are on their wiki
• The team is able to learn more about WikiProjects and how to to develop a successful solution that meets their needs

Decisions reached:

• We will start with local WikiProjects only for the MVP
• We will only focus on the WikiProject name, wiki, and description for MVP
• We will try to get WikiProject information from Wikibase (Wikidata)

Questions for post-MVP work:

• How will editors join WikiProjects in this flow? A successful discovery involves editors not only finding WikiProjects that interest them but being able to successfully join them and make contributions. Currently, each WikiProject pages have different formats and structures and it might difficult for editors to understand how to join and start collaborating and contributing.
• How will both experienced and new contributors seeking to contribute and collaborate with other contributors with similar interest find this tool?