Invite users to view Special:Dashboard
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	Samwalton9-WMF
	Nov 13 2025, 1:13 PM

Description

User story: As a Wikipedia editor, I want to know that a new feature, the Dashboard, is available for me to use, so that I can try it out and learn if it will be useful to me.

Designs

Blue dot notice

Mobile

1) Minerva (advanced mode)	2) Minerva (advanced mode) menu open	3) Minerva (non advanced mode)	4) Minerva (non advanced mode) menu open

Desktop

5) Legacy Vector	6) Vector 2022	7) Vector 2022 menu open

Acceptance criteria

Registered accounts meeting a given edit count requirement (100) see a pulsing blue dot notification next to the Dashboard link location.
Selecting the link the blue dot on Mobile and Vector 2022, opens the personal tools menu as normal. On Legacy vector the link takes you directly to the Extension:PersonalDashboard.
Users see the blue dot until they click through to the Extension:PersonalDashboard.

Technical question

Is it possible to deploy Extension:PersonalDashboard without triggering the blue dot and then activating the blue dot later?

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Invite users to view Special:Dashboard	mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard	master	+259 -22

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T402632 WE1.3: New moderator homepage
Open	None	T402647 Launch new moderator homepage MVP
Resolved	Dillon	T410036 Invite users to view Special:Dashboard

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Samwalton9-WMF created this task.Nov 13 2025, 1:13 PM

Samwalton9-WMF edited parent tasks, added: T402647: Launch new moderator homepage MVP; removed: T405750: Survey users of the new moderator dashboard MVP.

Samwalton9-WMF added a subtask: T405757: Display a link to the dashboard survey in Special:Dashboard.

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Inbox to To be estimated on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.

Samwalton9-WMF changed the status of subtask T405757: Display a link to the dashboard survey in Special:Dashboard from Open to Stalled.Nov 13 2025, 1:21 PM

Samwalton9-WMF mentioned this in T402647: Launch new moderator homepage MVP.Nov 13 2025, 5:09 PM

Samwalton9-WMF removed a subtask: T405757: Display a link to the dashboard survey in Special:Dashboard.Nov 17 2025, 3:59 PM

We noticed this was missing the non-AMC design for mobile users. Flagged with @OTichonova.

In T410036#11379895, @Samwalton9-WMF wrote:

We noticed this was missing the non-AMC design for mobile users. Flagged with @OTichonova.

Thanks! I have updated the ticket with designs for non-AMC.

I'm not sure where the blue blinking dot lives, as an asset, but it is an existing design pattern, used e.g. when on a new account you first use Visual Editor.

See T400366: [Reading List] Notify users of new Reading List feature when experiment launches (onboarding) for a recent approach to implementing effectively the same thing.

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Backlog to MVP on the PersonalDashboard board.Nov 19 2025, 12:28 PM

Samwalton9-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

Dillon moved this task from To be estimated to Design backlog on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Nov 25 2025, 3:20 PM

@OTichonova We had an open question here about whether the popup was needed or if the blue dot was sufficient. I forget if we discussed / what we decided.

MNeisler mentioned this in T412970: Estimate sample size needed to establish baselines for moderator homepage MVP.Dec 17 2025, 3:50 PM

OTichonova updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 17 2025, 4:22 PM

Hi @Samwalton9-WMF, as per discussion, we have removed the popover for now and are guiding editors towards the PersonalDashboard link via the blue dot. The illustrations and acceptance criteria have been updated in the ticket to represent this.

Samwalton9-WMF changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Dec 17 2025, 4:32 PM

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Design backlog to To be estimated on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.

Is it possible to deploy Extension:PersonalDashboard without triggering the blue dot and then activating the blue dot later?

We'll come back to this, it can be out of scope for this task for now.

Scardenasmolinar set the point value for this task to 3.Jan 6 2026, 3:11 PM

Scardenasmolinar moved this task from To be estimated to Estimated on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.

Samwalton9-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jan 6 2026, 4:38 PM

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Estimated to Kanban on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Jan 6 2026, 4:40 PM

Samwalton9-WMF edited projects, added Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban); removed Moderator-Tools-Team.

Dillon changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jan 12 2026, 2:10 PM

Dillon claimed this task.

Dillon moved this task from Ready to In Progress on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.

Change #1226298 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dillon; author: Dillon):

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Invite users to view Special:Dashboard

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226298

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Tue, Jan 13, 4:55 PM

Test wiki created on Patch demo by DHardy-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://36187ad2a7.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/

Dillon moved this task from In Progress to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Fri, Jan 16, 4:32 PM

Hi, I had a question about the non advanced mode designs.
On the patch demo above when I do not have ACM I see the following:

Screenshot 2026-01-16 at 1.22.50 PM.png (830×1 px, 116 KB)

Which is a bit confusing to me as the blue dot is now in both places and the left hamburger menu doesn't have anything to do with the Dashboard, unless I'm missing something?

It looks great on desktop, and ACM mode though!

Also a design question around the disappearing behavior, in the acceptance criteria it says:

Users see the blue dot until they click through to the Extension:PersonalDashboard.

Does this mean that the dot shouldn't appear again after a user has viewed the PersonalDashboard, because currently the dot disappears but if you go back to the home page it appears again.

Kgraessle moved this task from Eng review to Design review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Fri, Jan 16, 7:37 PM

In T410036#11530297, @Kgraessle wrote:

Hi, I had a question about the non advanced mode designs.
On the patch demo above when I do not have ACM I see the following:

Which is a bit confusing to me as the blue dot is now in both places and the left hamburger menu doesn't have anything to do with the Dashboard, unless I'm missing something?

It looks great on desktop, and ACM mode though!

Also a design question around the disappearing behavior, in the acceptance criteria it says:

Users see the blue dot until they click through to the Extension:PersonalDashboard.

Does this mean that the dot shouldn't appear again after a user has viewed the PersonalDashboard, because currently the dot disappears but if you go back to the home page it appears again.

This was actually a bug in my feature flag logic. It should be fixed now! To properly test the AMC menu, you need to set $wgMinervaPersonalMenu['loggedin'] = false; in LocalSettings.php.

Kgraessle moved this task from Design review to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Tue, Jan 20, 2:50 PM

Screenshot of the blue dot covering up the text on the talk page message notification.

Screenshot 2026-01-21 at 7.31.56 AM.png (434×434 px, 23 KB)

Kgraessle moved this task from Eng review to Reviewed (waiting for changes) on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Wed, Jan 21, 1:58 PM

Dillon moved this task from Reviewed (waiting for changes) to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Wed, Jan 21, 2:51 PM

@Samwalton9-WMF I have added optional config values for testing purposes:

$wgPersonalDashboardBlueDot (toggles blue dot, default: true)
$wgPersonalDashboardBlueDotMinimumEdits (min. edits to show blue dot, default: 100)

Do you think these would be useful features to expose to CommunityConfiguration as well?

In T410036#11542405, @Dillon wrote:

@Samwalton9-WMF I have added optional config values for testing purposes:

$wgPersonalDashboardBlueDot (toggles blue dot, default: true)

$wgPersonalDashboardBlueDotMinimumEdits (min. edits to show blue dot, default: 100)

Do you think these would be useful features to expose to CommunityConfiguration as well?

Makes sense, thanks!

I think we should wait before making any decisions about CommunityConfiguration for this. We haven't made any decisions about how access to the modules we're testing here will be gated overall (i.e. as a transition from the Newcomer Homepage) so I think it would be premature.

Kgraessle moved this task from Eng review to Reviewed (waiting for changes) on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Thu, Jan 22, 1:43 PM

Kgraessle moved this task from Reviewed (waiting for changes) to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.

Kgraessle moved this task from Eng review to QA on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Thu, Jan 22, 2:36 PM

Change #1226298 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Invite users to view Special:Dashboard

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226298

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Thu, Jan 22, 3:31 PM

The blue dot is showing up for new users that haven't clicked on the Dashboard and does not show up to users who have. Looks good!

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

~~https://36187ad2a7.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/~~

	F71584039: Screenshot 2026-01-21 at 7.31.56 AM.png
	Wed, Jan 21, 1:58 PM

	F71540871: Screenshot 2026-01-16 at 1.22.50 PM.png
	Fri, Jan 16, 7:36 PM

	F71105672: Non-advanced mode (popover).png
	Dec 17 2025, 4:22 PM

	F70255809: Non-advanced mode (popover).png
	Nov 17 2025, 5:51 PM

Invite users to view Special:DashboardClosed, ResolvedPublic3 Estimated Story PointsActions