User problem:

Organizers do not have a way of easily tracking contributions and then reporting on impact of their organized activity on the wikis. This means that it is harder to share the successes and challenges and learnings of their organized activities, and it is harder to motivate people to join their activities due to unclear understanding of the impact.

Background:

One of the most important tasks related to organizing events on the wikis is tracking and reporting on impact. For events that focus on contributions, this means tracking contribution data, such as: the number of articles created, the number of articles edited, the total number of edits, the number of photos uploaded, etc.

Contribution data is important to many people. It is important to the event organizers and event stakeholders (such as grant officers, partner institutions, host venues), since it gives them an understanding of the impact of their events, their successes, and their gaps/challenges to address in the future. For the prospective participants, they can see impact reporting of past events, which can help motivate them to join future events. For event participants, it can help them feel like their work and time was valued, since they understand the impact of their individual contributions and the impact of the event overall.

However, there is no easy way to track contributions that are in the scope of an activity on the wikis. There are many external tools to track contributions, and different wikis & campaigns use different tools. However, many of these solutions pose challenges, including: they are off the wikis, they do not work well for tracking the contributions of experienced editors, and/or they can be hard to use.

This has made us wonder: Is there a simple, first stab that we can take at tracking contributions in organized activities? This first stab would focus on making it easy for organizers to know which contributions are within the scope of an organized activity.

User stories:

As an organizer of a collaboration, I want registered participants to be able to indicate if a specific contribution is within the scope of the collaboration, so that I can easily see access accurate contribution data and this data can be integrated with wiki workflows and practices.

As a participant in a collaboration, I want to easily indicate if my specific contribution is part of a collaboration, so that I can be recognized for my work and so that work that is not a part of the collaboration remains separate.

As a moderator, I want to know if a certain contribution is a part of a collaborative activity, and I would like to be able to easily access information on the activity (such as the organizer, event type, event goals), so that I can understand more context behind the contributions and who I can contact if issues arise, other than the only the contributor.

Open questions/ideas for further exploration identified via design investigation (see T375683):

• What if there are edits that should be included in the scope of the event but for whatever reason were not tagged? Can we allow organizers to retroactively tag/connect edits to the event?
• Allow participants to claim certain articles and/or goals within those articles
• Allow organizers to assign certain articles and/or goals within those articles to specific participants
• Allow organizers to reuse worklists from past events
• Should the tracking/analytics experience be different from the worklist creation experience? Is it okay for all of this to happen in one place?
• How much should we encourage organizers to create a worklist? Should it be required? It seems like having a worklist with clearly defined goals would increase the impact of any event.
• We may want to allow a scoring component as another element that is tracked in the future, so judges of contests can score contributions or the overall work of contributors - see example: https://fountain.toolforge.org/editathons/wmid-sm4p-tantangan