User story:
As the Growth team, we want to incorporate community feedback early in the planning process because we'll build a better product together, one that more accurately reflects community needs.
Overview
The Wikimedia Foundation is developing a unified Home to help Wikimedians at every stage, from curious readers to experienced editors and moderators, find meaningful ways to participate and grow. It builds on the Newcomer Homepage and the Moderator Tools Dashboard.
This task tracks early communications work to gather community feedback on Home plans and designs. Over 2026-2027 Q1, we will ask communities for feedback on the different explorations of this project, starting with the designs around onboarding simplification, dashboard layout, and navigation. The goal is to gather feedback quickly, in a more lightweight way than we have in the past, with feedback collected per audience (newcomers and the users who support them; moderators and curious experienced users) so that input about specific workflows comes from the people who know those workflows.
- High-level project plans: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Home
- Early designs available for discussion: T426702: Design prototyping: Personal Dashboard + Homepage [FY26-27, Deepen Engagement 1.3]
First steps
The first step is to finalize, share, and execute the first steps of the Contributors Home communication plan:
- Finalize the Home communications plan and agree on dates with the product manager
- Consult with ambassadors on the designs for early feedback
- Identify communities to work with
- Share the communication plan with the Ambassadors
- Start to gather feedback