User stories:
For the improvement of collaborative contributions:
As an event participant, I want the event to have a predetermined worklist, so that I can see what I should work on and so that I don't need to unnecessarily mark each edit as part of an event if it is already in the worklist.
For potential personal goals or editor matchmaking:
As an editor who wants to set personal or group goals, I want to create a structured worklist with attached goals that is easily searchable and sharable, so that people can easily connect with me and/or work on the goals that I have set as a community initiative.
For event discovery:
As an editor, I want to be able to discover events that specifically focus on the articles I care about (or at least very similar articles), so that I can join events that focus on my specific interests and connect with like-minded contributors.
Background:
We have consistently heard that a) many editors struggle to learn about ways to collaborate and connect with each other (such as events, WikiProjects, etc), and b) many organizers and active members of events and/or WikiProjects suffer from burnout for various reasons, but one reason includes low exposure and difficulty reaching out to new audiences. For this reason, we're interested in surfacing new ways that editors can learn about events to join. One concept is surfacing events (and perhaps WikiProjects) based on the article you have just edited.
The basic idea behind this is that, if someone just made a significant contribution to an article, there is a good chance that they are interested in the improvement of the article and would like to know who else plans to work on it. They may be especially motivated if they know there are certain goals associated with the event. So, we can perhaps surface such events to the editor.
In a later version, we could also perhaps surface events to editors based on not only if an article is directly in the worklist, but also perhaps if similar articles to the one they edited are in the worklist (using the list-building tool, perhaps).
Acceptance Criteria:
- Develop a basic prototype for the following scenarios:
- Organizers can specify the articles that are in the scope of an event on Special:EnableEventRegistration or Special:EditRegistration, which would involve:
- A new section at the bottom below Questions for Participants, which allows organizers to add:
- Wiki of article (there can be a wiki selector, like we have in the collaboration list, perhaps)
- Name of article
- A new section at the bottom below Questions for Participants, which allows organizers to add:
- It should not be mandatory to have Collaborative Contributions enabled to add a worklist
- However, the articles in the worklist could perhaps appear in a new view in the Contributions tab called Articles
- Organizers can specify the articles that are in the scope of an event on Special:EnableEventRegistration or Special:EditRegistration, which would involve:
Visual examples:
Note that these design examples are based on similar topical area, but we'll be taking the investigation one step forward and focusing on specific articles in a worklist. This is because we believe the current topics may be too broad to be useful in generating a message in such a potentially disruptive way.
