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[Temporary Accounts] Update CentralNotice extension to support Temporary Accounts
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Description

Motivation

As part of the ongoing work for Temporary accounts we want to ensure that CentralNotice can function as expected for temporary account holders.

Existing interface

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Spec (proposed)
  • Permit temporary accounts to be selected as a user type for targeted CN banners/campaigns in the future
  • Keep defaults as is - Temporary Accounts should have the same default behaviors as Logged-out/Unregistered editors to keep parity with current state

Details

Other Assignee
Niharika

Event Timeline

kostajh subscribed.

(Wasn't sure which Fundraising Tech team tag to use)

jgleeson subscribed.

Hi @kostajh, this one feels more like feature work, so I'll move it out of our Chaos board (bug fixing work) and leave it in the Fundraising Tech backlog to be triaged. Thanks!

AKanji-WMF added subscribers: AKanji-WMF, Sheilakaruku.

@AKanji-WMF to check in with central notice users and @Sheilakaruku

Hi @kostajh, this one feels more like feature work, so I'll move it out of our Chaos board (bug fixing work) and leave it in the Fundraising Tech backlog to be triaged. Thanks!

@jgleeson @AKanji-WMF have you had a chance to triage this yet?

@kostajh as I'm returning from an absence I'll move to triage so I can gather status Tuesday when we meet again as a team.

@Ejegg Following up on our conversation I gathered some more context from Niharika about this work:

"The goal we had in mind for this feature was to allow outreach to temporary accounts to ask them for feedback on their experience through a survey. Since this is a very new account type with new safety features, we thought this would be a good mechanism to catch their attention and also spread some information about what's changed."

Hi @AKanji-WMF @Ejegg

I am Oreoluwa, an outreachy applicant and I am looking to learn and contibute to central notice. Perhaps, is this something I can take up and contibute to?

Hi @AKanji-WMF @Ejegg

I am Oreoluwa, an outreachy applicant and I am looking to learn and contibute to central notice. Perhaps, is this something I can take up and contibute to?

@Astinson @Sheilakaruku fyi

Hi @Oreoluwa - thank you for this offer. Do you currently have a mentor at WMF? If not, I would suggest a few tasks from the "good first newcomer tasks" tab here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/dashboard/view/1/

Tchanders subscribed.

I'll re-tag this with the global rollout tag, since it is not blocking major pilots rollout.

Noting that this patch from September 2023 updated CentralNotice to treat temporary accounts as anonymous: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CentralNotice/+/956915 . @Niharika is there still a need to target temporary accounts distinct from logged in / logged out users in CentralNotice? Were you able to achieve that via a different mechanism?

greg moved this task from Next to Current Sprint on the Fundraising-Backlog board.
greg subscribed.

Moving to our current sprint (which will change in a couple hours from now) to keep track as we ensure there's no follow-up needed on our side.

Ejegg updated Other Assignee, added: Niharika.

Hi again @Niharika, do you still have a use case for this? Or have you been able to reach out to temporary account holders via another mechanism?