//⚠️This task description is in draft mode. It will continue to be updated as we learn new things.//
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For this project, it is important we work closely with wikis to increase the likelihood the tools we build to improve on-wiki communication and collaboration meet the needs of the range of people these tools are intended to serve.
This task represents the work associated with figuring out which wikis we will work most closely with on the [Talk pages project](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Updates#All_Talk%3F_The_effects_of_easier_communication_interfaces_%28than_user_talk_pages%29_on_collaborative_production). We are calling these wikis "target wikis."
=== Purpose ===
Our primary goals for working with what we're calling "target wikis" is to be surprised.
More specifically, to learn things we didn't even think to ask or consider. "Things" like:
- Uncovering edge cases the team had not designed for
- Ideas for how a feature could be designed based on communities' past efforts
- etc.
=== Selection criteria ===
//Below is a living list of criteria we will use to identify potential target wikis//
Wikis that:
- Have someone who we can work directly with to help "host" conversations on their "home" projects
- Have a relatively large number of contributors using article and user talk pages (assumption: more usage volume predicts contributors using talk pages in greater number of ways)
-- Number of distinct contributors, by experience level, using article and user talk pages each month (trend over time)
-- Number of contributions, by experience level, to article and user talk pages each month (trend over time)
- Have a range of contributors using them along qualities like:
-- Language
--- e.g. RTL and LTR; Latin and non-Latin script
-- Experience level
--- e.g. talk page contributors by edit count
=== Done ===
- [ ] Publish a list of wikis we will be working most closely with to the Talk pages [main project](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_projec) and [/Updates](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Updates#) MediaWiki pages.