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Allow organizers to create a recurring event using Event Registration
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Description

Background & problem:
Many of the main organizers we have in the Wikimedia movement organize more than one event, sometimes dozens of events following the same logic and structure. Currently, when that's the case, they need to create the same page using the Event Registration header several times. This is a rather repetitive process.

With more communities and organizers adopting the CampaignEvents feature, this problem will become even more frequent.

Proposed change:
Allow organizers to check a box in which they could replicate the same event, with slightly different changes (title, time, day, location, etc), several times – and eventually connect it with a campaign (see T385342 and T434017).

Alternatively, this could also be a separate feature, in which they add a link to an event they want to copy from, from their own campaign or another campaign. This option would allow copying from other events, which is something typical among Wikimedians, by the collaborative nature of the projects.

This can be inspired by the Program & Events Dashboard features:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/copy_course.

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Copy from event (P&E Dashboard) 3.jpg (960×223 px, 11 KB)

Use cases:
@Tania_Sola, from Wikimedia Mexico, creates several events for #JuevesWiki, which is a weekly campaign (example here).

Benefits:
This would allow organizers to save time accomplishing a repetitive task and let them focus on the most important parts of the event.

This would also be beneficial for huge events/campaigns using a campaign/program structure that aggregates events (T385342 and T434017).

Event Timeline

Perhaps somewhat related to T385342: [EPIC] Expand Event Registration to Support Project + Program Structure. For a start, which I think is also proposed in the task description, we could also have a "duplicate" button of some sort on existing events that takes you to the form for a new event, but prefilled with the same data as the existing event.

@Daimona 100%! I think a button like that would be a great solution. And yes, I agree this is related to T385342! It would definitely help those managing overarching campaigns.