Talk:Campaigns/Foundation Product Team/Invitation list

Privacy

Why is the invitation list private? At dewiki, this might be considered a desirable feature; at enwiki, it might be considered an invitation to commit canvassing. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:14, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @WhatamIdoing,

The Invitation list is part of the CampaignEvents extension, and only wikis that have this extension enabled can use the tool. Right now, it’s only available on test wikis, like the beta cluster. We plan to enable it on Igbo and Swahili Wikipedias soon. We’re also open to enabling this extension for other wikis that are interested. In the future, we hope communities can easily choose to enable it themselves with Community Configuration. This way, it is the choice of communities whether or not to enable the feature. - Udehb-WMF (talk) 08:06, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Next time

What happens if I want to generate an updated list of names? Do I have to create another one?

Can I get rid of the old one? WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:15, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

If your new event is similar to the one you already created, you can reuse the invitation list. You can find all your previously generated lists by going to "Special:MyInvitationLists" and you can send your invite to the same people. However, if it’s a different event or topic, it’s better to create a new invitation list using the article list of the new event. This way, you will reach people who are more likely to be interested in the new topic. As for deleting invitation lists, we currently do not have that feature, since we focused on building a simple first version of the tool first. However, we can look into deleting invitation lists in the future. Udehb-WMF (talk) 08:08, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Output format

Can I get this in MassMessage format? WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:16, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

We hope to include this feature in a future update. However, as mentioned on the main page, this is the first version, and we plan to improve it based on community feedback and resource availability. Udehb-WMF (talk) 08:09, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Input limitations

Will I be able to use more than 300 pages? I'd like to use about 70,000, or at least 12,000. Less than 1,000 isn't really useful for me.

Could the input be listed on a linked page? Could it be a category, ideally (for enwiki) a Talk: page, to identify people who edited the mainspace page associated with it? WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:26, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh! This is interesting feedback. Can you share why 300 articles is not useful to you? In this first version, you can only add up to 300 articles. We made this decision because we wanted to encourage users to be more judicious in the articles they chose, so they could have a more targeted invitation list and only reach the editors who were more likely to be interested in their activities. However, this may not be the best choice, and we are open to suggestions or changes, so we would love to learn more about why you think the article limit should be increased. Thank you for all your questions/feedbacks. Udehb-WMF (talk) 08:11, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

I periodically want to find less-experienced editors (e.g., 10–500 edits) who are interested in medicine-related articles. I'd like to run it against:

• w:en:Category:Top-importance medicine articles – 100 articles
• w:en:Category:High-importance medicine articles – 1,100 articles
• w:en:Category:Mid-importance medicine articles – 11,500 articles

The first category is the least likely to find promising editors.

You can see my current method at w:en:User:WhatamIdoing/WPMED invitations. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:43, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @WhatamIdoingfor sharing this Udehb-WMF (talk) 12:39, 2 September 2024 (UTC)