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Aug 20 2025

Astinson updated the task description for T360799: [EPIC] Empower developers to author new Edit Checks and Suggestions and configure existing ones.
Aug 20 2025, 11:50 PM · Epic, EditCheck, Editing-team, VisualEditor

Aug 19 2025

Astinson added a comment to T370798: Create a preview sandbox for Central Notice banner designs.

We are working on a WebApp here which should address this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388248

Aug 19 2025, 4:20 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice

Aug 7 2025

Astinson updated the task description for T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:55 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson updated the task description for T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:52 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson updated subscribers of T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.

I think its in the Android and IOS apps @JTannerWMF is the PM.

Aug 7 2025, 6:51 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson updated the task description for T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:43 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson updated the task description for T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:42 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson updated the task description for T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:38 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson updated the task description for T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:36 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson renamed T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons from Create a better filter for "In This Day to Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 6:31 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson created T401429: Create a better filter for "What Came First" Comparisons.
Aug 7 2025, 5:57 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog

Jul 2 2025

Astinson created T398499: Central Notice Logs are not showing diff when modified.
Jul 2 2025, 7:55 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice

Jun 19 2025

Astinson added a comment to T395590: Investigation: Database - What is engineering recommendation for associating edit with event for MVP? [3 days].

Another user story from reports

  • From an on-wiki or online community perspective, I would like to be able to get a sense of which events have been most productive and least productive against their stated goals in a window of time. One of the challenges that organizers have with communicating their work to the international movement (and one of the challenges), is that the online community selectively sees the inneffective events they have a conflict with, instead of the swarm of effective silent events that are quitely doing good work on the wikis.
Jun 19 2025, 2:28 PM · OKR-Work, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint)

Jun 18 2025

Astinson added a comment to T395590: Investigation: Database - What is engineering recommendation for associating edit with event for MVP? [3 days].

@ifried asked for feedback on these questions, I will write some initial user stories:
Where do we expect data on collaborative contributions to live on the wikis in the future (i.e., which pages/which experiences)?

Jun 18 2025, 5:02 PM · OKR-Work, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint)
Astinson added a comment to T397189: Upload Wizard should display standard abbreviations for Creative Commons Licenses.

@Sneha I would put the abbreviations in parenthesis personally to distinguish it from the, and code it as an untranslatable string

Jun 18 2025, 3:42 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.24; 2025-10-21), UploadWizard
Astinson updated the task description for T397189: Upload Wizard should display standard abbreviations for Creative Commons Licenses.
Jun 18 2025, 3:41 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.24; 2025-10-21), UploadWizard

Jun 17 2025

Astinson created T397189: Upload Wizard should display standard abbreviations for Creative Commons Licenses.
Jun 17 2025, 1:18 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.24; 2025-10-21), UploadWizard

Jun 16 2025

Astinson renamed T397099: Grant Access to NDA LDAP for DerHexer from Grant Access to <INSERT LDAP GROUP> for DerHexer to Grant Access to NDA LDAP for DerHexer.
Jun 16 2025, 9:18 PM · SRE, LDAP-Access-Requests
Astinson updated Astinson.
Jun 16 2025, 9:07 PM
Astinson added a comment to T397099: Grant Access to NDA LDAP for DerHexer.

DerHexer is a long-trusted Steward that wants access to some of the data that is available through Central Notice, he has an existing NDA with the Foundation.

Jun 16 2025, 9:05 PM · SRE, LDAP-Access-Requests
Astinson added a comment to T341414: Allow community without extended rights to help with CN banner translations going 'live'.

@Aafi you are correct, sorry I was writing it quickly, and had the wrong user group in mind -- fixed

Jun 16 2025, 7:21 PM · 25 Dec Q3 Planning, Fundraising-Tech-Roadmap, Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Wikimedia-Fundraising
Astinson updated the task description for T341414: Allow community without extended rights to help with CN banner translations going 'live'.
Jun 16 2025, 7:20 PM · 25 Dec Q3 Planning, Fundraising-Tech-Roadmap, Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Wikimedia-Fundraising
Astinson updated the task description for T341414: Allow community without extended rights to help with CN banner translations going 'live'.
Jun 16 2025, 7:02 PM · 25 Dec Q3 Planning, Fundraising-Tech-Roadmap, Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Wikimedia-Fundraising

Jun 13 2025

Astinson added a comment to T341414: Allow community without extended rights to help with CN banner translations going 'live'.

Following up on my previous comment, I am going to say that the emerging consensus is: add both Meta Admins and Translate Admins groups to the allowlist for publishing Central Notice translations.

Jun 13 2025, 4:02 PM · 25 Dec Q3 Planning, Fundraising-Tech-Roadmap, Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Wikimedia-Fundraising

Jun 12 2025

Astinson created T396781: Increase collaboration by sharing tools?.
Jun 12 2025, 4:42 PM · Connection-Team, Toolhub

Jun 2 2025

Astinson added a comment to T366222: Investigation: how many event participants have been affected by IP Blocks.

@nettrom_WMF -- just got back from sabbatical --- this is wonderful and finally gets us a source of truth for some of the data.

Jun 2 2025, 1:39 PM · Connection-Team, Trust and Safety Product Team, Product-Analytics (Kanban), WE4.2 Anti-abuse, IP-Blocking-Impacts, CampaignEvents

Mar 20 2025

Astinson added a comment to T341414: Allow community without extended rights to help with CN banner translations going 'live'.

I think that there are four distinct and actionable tasks here:

  • Encourage the use of plain wikitext instead of HTML by default in banners
  • Make the interface for approving banner translations simpler and more intuitive
  • Allow translation administrators to approve banner translations
  • Provide banner requesters with temporary, limited translation adminship (similar to limited adminship)
Mar 20 2025, 2:33 PM · 25 Dec Q3 Planning, Fundraising-Tech-Roadmap, Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Wikimedia-Fundraising

Mar 11 2025

Astinson added a comment to T387793: Design exploration: Collaboration List Module on the Newcomer Homepage.

@gonyeahialam I like the recommendations -- one of the things that has always stood out to me is that we should be using more of the Newcomer Growth tools to gather data that influences the offerings for the newcomers.

Mar 11 2025, 7:15 PM · OKR-Work, Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), Campaign-Registration, Event-Discovery, CampaignEvents

Mar 7 2025

Astinson created T388234: Outreachy Project: Central Notice Banner Wizard .
Mar 7 2025, 2:13 PM

Feb 13 2025

Astinson added a comment to T355253: [EPIC] Display data on event type.

I actually think that is a good idea @ifried that would allow us to provide a judging architecture in the future. If yes, I would also ask a question about how they plan to evaluate the results

Feb 13 2025, 8:00 PM · Connection-Team, Epic, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents

Jan 7 2025

Astinson added a comment to T381519: Design exploration: How can we display collaborative contribution data in a way that is useful for organizers, participants, and general users?.

@gonyeahialam Thanks for the great design ideas. One observation: the words added metrics introduces a lot of complexity, because of how different languages hand words and word length-- it might require further investigation if we have metrics like that that are standard in the wikis.

Jan 7 2025, 3:00 PM · OKR-Work, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint)

Oct 21 2024

Astinson added a comment to T375683: Design exploration: Allow organizers to track contributions in the scope of an activity on the wikis.

@ifried The only strategy for going back and tagging edits that didn't get a hashtag the first time, is to make another edit so that minimally

Oct 21 2024, 12:46 PM · Design, Wikimedia-Design, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint)

Oct 16 2024

Astinson added a comment to T355253: [EPIC] Display data on event type.

On the moderating content question: I think describing it as a "backlog drive or collaboration on a moderation workflow" is going to be better understood by organizers and parts of the community that "moderation". For the most part, the other ones makes sense. Do we need something different for Wikidata/Data like we have with photos? I am wondering if @Rmaung has any opinions on what we would want to see in terms of types!

Oct 16 2024, 9:34 PM · Connection-Team, Epic, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents

Sep 4 2024

Astinson added a comment to T341599: Impact Module: improvements for former newcomers.

It would be nice if the tool allowed you to travel to something like https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/ where you could do further analysis on the list of articles being viewed. One of the opportunities here is to expose more editors to the fact that impact data (i.e. pageviews) is relatively easy to come by if you have a question that you want to ask.

Sep 4 2024, 5:38 PM · Growth-Team, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.1; 2025-05-13), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.28; 2025-05-06), Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, GrowthExperiments-ImpactModule

Aug 21 2024

Astinson added a comment to T371515: Community-defined Translation Collections: definition, storage & recommendation.

A thought I had when talking to Alex at Wikimania: It would probably be useful if these lists had Wikidata items, and that the inclusion of the topics were made through the Wikidata property "on focus list for WikiProject (P5008)". It fits really well, as this is a focus list by definition. It would also enable other ways to use the knowledge that this is a prioritized topic.

Aug 21 2024, 12:04 PM · Patch-For-Review, OKR-Work, LPL Hypothesis

Aug 10 2024

Astinson updated subscribers of T371515: Community-defined Translation Collections: definition, storage & recommendation.
Aug 10 2024, 7:41 AM · Patch-For-Review, OKR-Work, LPL Hypothesis
Astinson updated subscribers of T368713: Community-defined translation collections: Technical Exploration.
Aug 10 2024, 7:40 AM · OKR-Work, LPL Hypothesis

Jul 31 2024

Astinson added a comment to T371560: REQUEST: A useful namespace_canonical_name column in wmf_raw.mediawiki_project_namespace_map.

This would be useful for any kind of work related to extensions and evaluating the relative "presence" of content types on different wikis. For example, I had a question related to WikiProjects, wanting to understand a) how many namespaces had a seperate WikiProject namespace, and b) if we could evaluate that content.

Jul 31 2024, 9:24 PM · Data-Engineering, Analytics-Canonical-Data

Jul 24 2024

Astinson updated the task description for T370953: (Epic) As an Organizers using Event Registration, I would like to enable a feature in registration that strongly recommends adding an email to your account.
Jul 24 2024, 7:35 PM · CampaignEvents, Connection-Team, Campaign-Registration
Astinson updated the task description for T370953: (Epic) As an Organizers using Event Registration, I would like to enable a feature in registration that strongly recommends adding an email to your account.
Jul 24 2024, 7:35 PM · CampaignEvents, Connection-Team, Campaign-Registration
Astinson updated the task description for T370953: (Epic) As an Organizers using Event Registration, I would like to enable a feature in registration that strongly recommends adding an email to your account.
Jul 24 2024, 7:27 PM · CampaignEvents, Connection-Team, Campaign-Registration
Astinson created T370953: (Epic) As an Organizers using Event Registration, I would like to enable a feature in registration that strongly recommends adding an email to your account.
Jul 24 2024, 7:26 PM · CampaignEvents, Connection-Team, Campaign-Registration
Astinson added a subtask for T368572: [EPIC] Participant Question Additions: T370884: Participant question add "How confident do you feel about the skills being taught in this event?".
Jul 24 2024, 1:52 PM · Epic, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team
Astinson added a parent task for T370884: Participant question add "How confident do you feel about the skills being taught in this event?": T368572: [EPIC] Participant Question Additions.
Jul 24 2024, 1:52 PM · CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration, Connection-Team
Astinson created T370884: Participant question add "How confident do you feel about the skills being taught in this event?".
Jul 24 2024, 1:52 PM · CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration, Connection-Team
Astinson added a comment to T359075: [EPIC] Track who attended the event .

@ifried I want to endorse the idea of sharing the event list afterwards, this would be a consistent way in which folks who have participated in community in some way (or expressed interest) could be reengaged without a significant amount of organizer-centered responsibility (i.e. retention or introduction to a future movement activity should be our shared responsibility, not the individual organizer).

Jul 24 2024, 12:54 PM · Connection-Team, Epic, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents

Jul 23 2024

Astinson added a parent task for T226961: CentralNotice: Don't show live preview section for users without CN rights: T370798: Create a preview sandbox for Central Notice banner designs.
Jul 23 2024, 5:10 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Fundraising-Backlog
Astinson added a parent task for T230857: Banner preview: fix banner editor for users without CN admin rights: T370798: Create a preview sandbox for Central Notice banner designs.
Jul 23 2024, 5:10 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, Fundraising-Backlog
Astinson added subtasks for T370798: Create a preview sandbox for Central Notice banner designs: T226961: CentralNotice: Don't show live preview section for users without CN rights, T230857: Banner preview: fix banner editor for users without CN admin rights.
Jul 23 2024, 5:10 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice
Astinson created T370798: Create a preview sandbox for Central Notice banner designs.
Jul 23 2024, 5:09 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice

Jul 10 2024

Restricted Application added a project to T359075: [EPIC] Track who attended the event : Epic.

There are handful of types of situations like this:

  • In person events where attendees may not be editing alot
  • Webinars where both online registration and participation, that may be hard for the organizer to keep track of the participants
  • Events that are part of a series of events, where attendees are expecting to join one but not all of the activities.
Jul 10 2024, 6:17 PM · Connection-Team, Epic, Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents

Jul 2 2024

Astinson added a comment to T356705: Create preference for users to opt out of invitation list inclusion.

Sorry didn't respond to the earlier question: yes, I think putting it near notifications is sensible, it starts to create a space in the area where we are going to be doing other kinds of communication eventually.

Jul 2 2024, 12:24 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Event-Discovery

Jun 12 2024

Astinson added a comment to T356679: Create Special:GenerateInvitationList Page.

I would also include a link to where the user can request turning it on -- until it gets turned on in Event Registration -- the tendency of organizers is not to always know how to triage these kinds of problems, so a link to either Community Configuration discussion (eventually) or in the short term a phabricator ticket for requesting to turn on the tools for the language might be helpful.

Jun 12 2024, 7:42 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Event-Discovery

May 30 2024

Astinson updated the task description for T366222: Investigation: how many event participants have been affected by IP Blocks.
May 30 2024, 1:12 PM · Connection-Team, Trust and Safety Product Team, Product-Analytics (Kanban), WE4.2 Anti-abuse, IP-Blocking-Impacts, CampaignEvents

May 29 2024

Astinson updated the task description for T366222: Investigation: how many event participants have been affected by IP Blocks.
May 29 2024, 10:09 PM · Connection-Team, Trust and Safety Product Team, Product-Analytics (Kanban), WE4.2 Anti-abuse, IP-Blocking-Impacts, CampaignEvents
Astinson created T366222: Investigation: how many event participants have been affected by IP Blocks.
May 29 2024, 10:08 PM · Connection-Team, Trust and Safety Product Team, Product-Analytics (Kanban), WE4.2 Anti-abuse, IP-Blocking-Impacts, CampaignEvents
Astinson updated subscribers of T362897: Investigation: How can we store worklists that will be shared by organizers who use Event Invitations?.

Here are some of my early responses/ideas, but I would also love feedback from @Astinson, @Udehb-WMF, and @EUwandu-WMF on these questions regarding how we handle the worklists that are shared by organizers in order to generate their invitation lists:

Do we want organizers to be able to edit a worklist?

Yes. I think we can expect that some organizers will create a worklist, submit it to generate an invitation list, and then look at the invitation list and think, "This list is too short. I should add more articles to my worklist and try again" or "This list has lots of people who I would not invite. Maybe I should pick articles on more specific topics and try again." However, I think the most important thing is that they should be able to try again, whether it's using a new, updated worklist or editing an existing one. I think it's preferable to simply edit an existing worklist (rather than creating a new one), since a) we're not storing multiple worklists that are very similar, and b) we're not encouraging the organizer to generate a ton of different invitation lists per event (but, rather, to edit and improve one main invitation list).

May 29 2024, 12:23 PM · Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint)

May 24 2024

Astinson renamed T365873: Create an API or other means of exposure for Event List from Create an API for Event List to Create an API or other means of exposure for Event List.
May 24 2024, 8:21 PM · Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team
Astinson added a comment to T365873: Create an API or other means of exposure for Event List.

So in theory you could do this with Javascript using: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template_gadgets, but you have this competing use case of things like Diff Calendar-- Transcludable with parameters I think would be a partial solution (and maybe a little quicker to allow) but wouldn't allow as much customization of context. However, a transcludable widget might allow us to do other things (like embed in other pages like the NewComer Homepage). I would love to weigh the different options here.

May 24 2024, 8:19 PM · Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team
Astinson created T365873: Create an API or other means of exposure for Event List.
May 24 2024, 7:09 PM · Campaign-Registration, CampaignEvents, Connection-Team

May 21 2024

Astinson added a comment to T356508: Investigation: Organizer can add wiki of the event for Event Registration [3 days].

www.wikifunctions.org, wikisource.org, species.wikimedia.org, meta.wikimedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org alongside Wikidata.

May 21 2024, 2:12 AM · Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

May 13 2024

Astinson added a comment to T343241: Build a taxonomy for "impactful topics".

@Miriam yep exactly the Q2 discussions should be part of 1.1.3, and some Q1 awareness building and WikiProject identification are covered in 1.1.2. The idea is that these consultations/outreach processes feed into eachother in a way that keeps us from doing too many parallel outreach moments for different related things (from the perspective of organizers/editors).

May 13 2024, 8:15 PM · OKR-Work, Research

May 9 2024

Astinson added a comment to T343241: Build a taxonomy for "impactful topics".

As a brief followup note to @Isaac above: I am currently reviewing the data collected by Isaac, and comparing it with the reported use of WikiProjects and other topical collaborations in community reporting areas such as Diff and This Month in GLAM -- to be better understand the topical networks that would most be prepared for having the conversation identified in the "history/society" and other topics like climate/biodiversity/sustianability identifed by Isaac. I currently have a sketched timeframe for targeted data modeling discussions about the rebuild in Q2 of FY24-25.

May 9 2024, 2:56 PM · OKR-Work, Research

Apr 26 2024

Astinson added a comment to T343241: Build a taxonomy for "impactful topics".

@Miriam Sounds good! Yeah, we have two layers of work that I think need to happen: first examining the topic areas that we have signal from the Grants space and seeing if we can build for those(which @Rmaung has the most recent data on) and then thinking about how we can gain the most insight from the communities we do have to improve the overall data model to reflect on and offwiki organizing beyond enwiki. I am going to work with Isaac next week to figure out how complex some of the methodologies might be, and propose a timeline or process.

Apr 26 2024, 3:43 PM · OKR-Work, Research

Apr 15 2024

Astinson created T362579: Improved URL for triggering Growth Suggested Edits .
Apr 15 2024, 9:58 PM · OKR-Work, GrowthExperiments-NewcomerTasks, Growth-Team

Apr 11 2024

Astinson added a comment to T350947: Performance review of Extension:WikimediaCampaignEvents.

In a 24 hour period: 40 configuration interactions from the organizer? 6-10 registration actions from the editor? It should be just enough to get them to cool down what they are doing, without being too restrictive -- and create enough space for them to make mistakes are being indecisive.

Apr 11 2024, 8:50 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.1; 2024-04-16), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.26; 2024-04-09), Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), WikimediaCampaignEvents, MediaWiki-Platform-Team
Astinson added a comment to T350947: Performance review of Extension:WikimediaCampaignEvents.

I would consider doing something, like putting rate limits in a short window of time (i.e. x number of interactions in a 24 or 48 hour period). The thing you want to do is prevent a short term accidental misuse that effects others, rather than actually having someone who is having a bunch of tweaks to the tool right?

Apr 11 2024, 8:06 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.1; 2024-04-16), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.26; 2024-04-09), Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), WikimediaCampaignEvents, MediaWiki-Platform-Team

Apr 8 2024

Astinson added a comment to T293648: Content Translation Recommendations API.

After discussions with @Isaac and @Pginer-WMF So one feature that I don't think we are paying attention to yet is to "relative importance" of the article in the domains that its related to. We use a lot of shortcuts (such as pageviews, and interrellated links), but there is a lot of curated information on the wikis already about editor evaluation of importance that we could be using.

Apr 8 2024, 4:28 PM · Recommendation-API, Machine-Learning-Team

Mar 14 2024

Astinson added a comment to T356153: Add a link to the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard from the Wikimedia projects interface.

@M0tty exactly: the Event List and Registration are focused on the participant finding and registering for an event, but the Event Center and the Dashboard are for the organizer to create ways to register participants (Event Center) and track activity (Dashboard) -- for a "contribute" button focused on random user wanting to find an activity: searching through the Dashboard is not very helpful -- especially if most of the events don't have any description or readable information in your own language (remember we are supporting 300 languages, 600+ wikis), whereas the Event List T355666 will be meant to provide a one place, with translatable and searchable interface for finding events with features like sorting by the language you plan to contribute in, finding events for your geography, etc.

Mar 14 2024, 5:09 PM · Language and Product Localization, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture, Education-Program-Dashboard
Astinson added a comment to T356153: Add a link to the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard from the Wikimedia projects interface.

@M0tty I recommend strongly against surfacing the dashboard: especially for non-English speakers, and for new-to-the-Wikimedia-movement participants, the interface of the dashboard is overwhelming (we have repeatedly encountered this in user feedback). I think what happened in the last ticket is that it focuses on the Organizer facing tool (Event center) which would not be relevant to most folks clicking on Contribute where you probably want the participant facing tool at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355666

Mar 14 2024, 4:36 PM · Language and Product Localization, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture, Education-Program-Dashboard

Feb 19 2024

Astinson added a comment to T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.

+1 this is super painful - it should be a floating button. There should be a sort to handle redlinks and redirects as well -- so you can focus on different types of content to remove from the list

Feb 19 2024, 3:55 PM · MediaWiki-Watchlist

Feb 15 2024

Astinson added a comment to T357716: Organizer can use same event registration for all translated subpages.

This becomes more important as we try to roll out to Wiki Loves Campaigns on Commons as well.

Feb 15 2024, 7:46 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.22; 2024-03-12), Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration
Astinson updated the task description for T357715: Data Request for Programs and Events Dashboard.
Feb 15 2024, 7:26 PM · Education-Program-Dashboard
Astinson created T357715: Data Request for Programs and Events Dashboard.
Feb 15 2024, 7:26 PM · Education-Program-Dashboard

Feb 7 2024

Astinson created T356912: Sort registrants in Event Registration .
Feb 7 2024, 8:14 PM · CampaignEvents, Connection-Team, Campaign-Registration

May 22 2023

Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

@Iflorez +1 to everything you said -- make sense to me.

May 22 2023, 2:15 PM · Connection-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Apr 26 2023

Astinson moved T331890: CentralNotice admin UI should display warnings on potential banner overload from Backlog to BannerContent on the MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice board.
Apr 26 2023, 12:19 PM · Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice

Mar 31 2023

Astinson added a comment to T324849: Echo page link notification when clicked should direct the user to the diff.

@Lectrician1 I think the problem, is that this becomes the _main_ link in focus now on the notification, so encourages a behavior that is mostly useful for power users (i.e. people with way too much on their watchlist/content creation history). I would recommend that it not take most of 2/3s of the visible space on the page, consisder how smooth the design of the other notifications is.

Mar 31 2023, 8:50 PM · Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.2; 2023-03-27), Notifications (Echo)

Mar 30 2023

Astinson added a comment to T328032: [SPIKE] How will we handle storage of PII data?.

As for starting registration for events: 56 days is super generous. I can't think of a situation where folks are registering more than 30 days out (you have to remember most of the "actions" that organizers want people to do are easy to forget about if you don't do it in a timely manner).

Mar 30 2023, 12:04 PM · Connection-Team (Connection-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Mar 8 2023

Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

We may want to include "which languages do you plan to contribute in?" in that its both technically easy to do (use the language lists from the projects) and will improve the signals that Irene and the P&E dashboard can create in terms of metrics (one of the problems right now is that most of the tracking tools in the movement require prior knowledge of the language someone plans to contribute in). This is unlikely to be common in small events, but international writing contests this is key for tracking.

Mar 8 2023, 11:17 PM · Connection-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Mar 1 2023

Astinson created T330868: Create a Lua template for opening the registration dialogue from elsewhere in the page.
Mar 1 2023, 1:34 PM · Campaign-Registration

Feb 28 2023

Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

A good example of this is that there are emerging communities of practice on both Human Rights and Sustainability topic areas which are impossible to map to the ORES models, and don't make sense for WikiProjects as a 1:1 especially as we get into broader multi-community activities.

Feb 28 2023, 2:46 PM · Connection-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration
Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

@ldelench_wmf topic of interest should come later once we start picking topic domains for events themselves -- we need the topic areas to be configurable in a flexible way -- the ORES taxonomy and the WikiProjects are both highly inaccurate and not useful for newcomers, especially when trying to form multilingual, multicultural cross community activities.

Feb 28 2023, 2:40 PM · Connection-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration
Astinson added a comment to T329382: Define new campaign editor - for use in production to query for this metric.

So one thing to think about is that most of the new accounts will be created before an event, potentially immediately before registering (won't be the same workflow).

Feb 28 2023, 2:35 PM · User-Iflorez, Campaign-Registration, Connection-Team, Product-Analytics (Kanban)

Feb 22 2023

Astinson updated subscribers of T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

I believe that the standard to include "male, female, non-binary, and other" with an option not to be able to participate. @JStephenson may have more insight on how its being used now.

Feb 22 2023, 2:42 PM · Connection-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Nov 10 2021

Astinson added a comment to T287715: Analysis Request for Editor Growth due to Campaign Activity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

@ifried am not worried about the edits not coming from those countries: we know that the organizers are there, and they are running events -- especially in DRC, Uganda and Rwanda -- the challenge is often seeing their contributions -- of organized activity in general -- and then also we know that the organizers have some serious efficacy gaps in editing events in SSA (its hard to identify productive & persistent audiences, retaining those audiences is challenging, and leveling them up to the right skills is also challenging). We are also missing some of the most important campaigns for the region so far, WikiLoves Africa, Wiki Loves Women and WikiGap (at least according to the checklist).

Nov 10 2021, 12:54 PM · Connection-Team (Campaign-Tools-Sprint-4), Product-Analytics (Kanban)

Sep 3 2021

Astinson added a comment to T270784: App describing Spanish Wikipedia article "Cleopatra" as trending (due to default voice search test for Hello Google).

Appears to be driving traffic on English now as well: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=all-time&pages=Cleopatra

Sep 3 2021, 3:02 PM · Wikifeeds, Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated

Jul 16 2021

Astinson added a project to T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile: Connection-Team.
Jul 16 2021, 2:42 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Connection-Team, Technical-Tool-Request

May 22 2021

Astinson created T283429: Allow to mute Page Notice popup in VE.
May 22 2021, 6:56 PM · VisualEditor

Apr 29 2021

Astinson added a comment to T280011: Top read repeats.

@kzimmerman my partner set up her voice search for her new android phone -- I suspect it has all of the vowels that are common in spanish.

Apr 29 2021, 7:15 PM · Data-Engineering-Icebox, Data-Engineering, Product-Analytics

Mar 15 2021

Astinson created T277502: Humaniki Bug.
Mar 15 2021, 7:36 PM · Humaniki
Astinson created T277501: Humaniki New Feature: Filter by <> # of biographies.
Mar 15 2021, 7:31 PM · Humaniki

Dec 3 2020

Astinson renamed T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place from Manual save button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place to Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.
Dec 3 2020, 12:24 PM · MediaWiki-Watchlist
Astinson renamed T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place from Manual edit of watchlist button is in a very inconvenient place to Manual save button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.
Dec 3 2020, 12:22 PM · MediaWiki-Watchlist
Astinson created T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.
Dec 3 2020, 12:22 PM · MediaWiki-Watchlist

Sep 17 2020

Astinson updated the task description for T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.
Sep 17 2020, 1:57 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Connection-Team, Technical-Tool-Request

Aug 27 2020

Astinson added a comment to T261377: Consider restricting the 'usage' to certain namespaces.

Personally, I would just exclude a few of the namespaces or fork them into a seperate percentage (i.e. % used on Project and User pages): Project space (which is 4?) and user space (which is 2?) Neither of them is supposed to be used for "content" in the browsable sense -- for the GLAM tools, its less of a big deal that they track these secondary uses because the high level metric that most of them want to report is pageviews - but in this case, the usage rate is way more important because of the metric is an indicator of organizing success.

Aug 27 2020, 12:49 PM · Tool-wikiloves

Aug 19 2020

Astinson created T260791: LDAP Request Astinson.
Aug 19 2020, 12:57 PM · SRE, LDAP-Access-Requests

Aug 7 2020

Astinson created T259928: Gale URLs don't produce good Citations via Citoid.
Aug 7 2020, 9:00 PM · Citoid, The-Wikipedia-Library

Apr 1 2020

Astinson added a comment to T248127: Suggested tasks giving me "You must be logged in to view your private information".

So I am on the Beta app, and it stopped doing this in the most recent update.

Apr 1 2020, 4:24 PM · Android-app-Bugs, Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog