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Configure newcomer dashboard for Wikidata (per community consensus)
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Description

Following community discussion and interest, we propose enabling the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.

Considerations:

  • "Newcomer Onboarding" section has generic Wikipedia text so we agreed to leave those fields empty for now, hiding the section until WMF adapts the text for Wikidata
  • Two thoughtful suggestions raised for later
    • Have a page with help around images that we could link to from here.
    • Develop a process for rotating community updates beyond just the Weekly Summary

Previous discussion:

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Hi @KStoller-WMF, just wanted to see what you would need from us to get this deployed on Wikidata?

matej_suchanek renamed this task from Confugure newcomer dashboard for Wikidata (per community consensus) to Configure newcomer dashboard for Wikidata (per community consensus).Apr 9 2026, 4:51 PM

@Arian_Bozorg - I think just this task! I didn't realize consensus was reached, and I must have missed this task because it didn't have the Growth-team tag.

Let me chat with engineers about this and see if we can start on this ASAP, or if we need to consider waiting until after we do finish some architectural changes.
Sorry I missed this previously!

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Needs Refinement to Needs Estimation on the Growth-Team board.
KStoller-WMF set the point value for this task to 2.

@Arian_Bozorg it sounds like the Growth team will be able to work on this soon. A few things to mention:

  • The Growth team doesn't have capacity to complete Wikidata-specific customization. There are some small changes you might want consider like overriding the "articles" text to say "items" in the Impact module, and some minor changes like that, but I think that can be done without any Growth team involvement.
  • You might want to be ready to make some changes via Community Configuration (enable Mentorship? Add specific help docs? Set up a Community Update?)
  • Once enabled, the Homepage will be default enabled for all new accounts, but as of now existing accounts would need to opt-in via their preferences.

Is there a specific release date you are hoping for? Or should we simply release ASAP and let you know? Are there any questions you have before we release?

Thanks so much! There is no specific date at the moment, but ideally after the 11 May as I will be off before then. You can just let us know when it's up and we will make the small changes on our end.

No other questions from me :)