Display an onboarding dialog when users first visit Special:Dashboard
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	Samwalton9-WMF
	Nov 5 2025, 11:20 AM

Description

User story: As a novice moderator, I want to read an overview of what Special:Dashboard is, so that I understand what I'm looking at.

Designs

Figma: https://www.figma.com/design/CiQwgZ9qU1COcZ6ULvh9zS/Centralized-dashboard?node-id=3307-28801&p=f&t=ek4WWRkh4j2O1kko-0
Desktop

OnboardingDialog 11.png (720×1 px, 47 KB)

OnboardingDialog 22.png (720×1 px, 44 KB)

OnboardingDialog 32.png (720×1 px, 54 KB)

Mobile

OnboardingDialog mobile 3m3.png (568×320 px, 40 KB)

Images:

Illustrations	Onboarding 1.svg7 KBDownload	Onboarding 2.svg6 KBDownload	Onboarding 3.svg5 KBDownload
Alt text	Illustration of a page with three separate simplified dashboard panels.	Illustration of three simplified dashboard panels being added to the page.	Illustration of a simplified dashboard where the top of the page has a darker blue section emphasizing the feedback link.

Acceptance criteria

Users visiting Special:Dashboard receive an onboarding dialog in front of the page content with three steps.
Show it up to 2 times if they don’t go through all 3 pages (i.e. click the X)
If they check ‘don’t show again’ before closing, or get to the end and select 'Got it', don't show it again.

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Implement final design for Onboarding Dialog	mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard	master	+1 K -2 K

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T402632 WE1.3: New moderator homepage
Resolved	Samwalton9-WMF	T402647 Launch new moderator homepage MVP
Resolved	Dillon	T409275 Display an onboarding dialog when users first visit Special:Dashboard

Event Timeline

Samwalton9-WMF created this task.Nov 5 2025, 11:20 AM

jsn.sherman moved this task from Inbox to Product backlog on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Nov 5 2025, 6:38 PM

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Backlog to MVP on the PersonalDashboard board.Nov 6 2025, 8:53 AM

Samwalton9-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 11 2025, 9:13 AM

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Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from To be estimated to Product backlog on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Nov 12 2025, 3:23 PM

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Product backlog to To be estimated on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Nov 13 2025, 1:16 PM

Dillon moved this task from To be estimated to Design backlog on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Nov 25 2025, 3:19 PM

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Kgraessle set the point value for this task to 3.Dec 9 2025, 3:09 PM

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Samwalton9-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Dec 9 2025, 5:25 PM

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Dillon changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Dec 10 2025, 2:31 PM

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Change #1217279 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dillon; author: Dillon):

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Implement final design for Onboarding Dialog

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217279

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 10 2025, 10:01 PM

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Dillon moved this task from In Progress to Design review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Dec 22 2025, 8:51 PM

Test wiki created on Patch demo by DHardy-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://f783f6766a.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/

Dillon moved this task from Design review to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Dec 23 2025, 9:40 PM

Change #1217279 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Implement final design for Onboarding Dialog

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217279

Dillon moved this task from Eng review to QA on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Dec 23 2025, 10:13 PM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 23 2025, 10:30 PM

Dillon closed this task as Resolved.Jan 8 2026, 5:40 PM

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Test wiki on Patch demo by DHardy-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

~~https://f783f6766a.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/~~

Dillon mentioned this in T402782: Dashboard module: Policies and guidelines.Feb 20 2026, 8:38 PM

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Display an onboarding dialog when users first visit Special:DashboardClosed, ResolvedPublic3 Estimated Story PointsActions