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Metric decreases...

I'm participating in a challenge and I've noticed more than once that my metric decreases as well as one of my co-challengers. E.g.: from 1500 to 1439. How should I understand this? --VALENTIN NVJ (talk) 12:54, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

VALENTIN NVJ: I'm guessing that you mean a decrease in the 'Recent Edits' count from here? If that's the metric you mean, it's because that counts only the number of edits made within the past 7 days, not the total number of edits throughout the event.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

No Sage (Wiki Ed), but here.--VALENTIN NVJ (talk) 19:44, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

VALENTIN NVJ: which metric decreased? --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:28, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes Sage (Wiki Ed); the number of metric (Number of Modification) often decreases. I can sleep with 1900 contributions and arrive in the morning, it decreases to 1500. that's what I don't understand why? --VALENTIN NVJ (talk) 20:33, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

VALENTIN NVJ: It sounds like you are talking about the 'Recent Edits' column from the Editors Overview, which currently shows 1860 for you. This is the number of edits that the Dashboard has tracked from you within the last 7 days. (If you are talking about a different metric, you can email (sage @ wikiedu.org) me a screenshot of the metric you mean, and I can look into it further.) --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:40, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Exactly the "Recent changes" column I was talking about Sage (Wiki Ed). Yesterday I had 1860 but look at today how it still decreased to 1619 instead of advancing. This dashboard also counts for a competition where there will be prizes to win at the end. So this kind of bag may distort the final result. Please see what happens! --VALENTIN NVJ (talk) 16:37, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

The 'recent edits' stat is not a good metric to use for a competition; it's not intended to count the total number of edits, it's intended to highlight which users have been most active within the last week.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:49, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi I cannot find the eventbrite/Zoom link for the event Anyone able to send me this? Karen

Why aren't some articles counted?

Hi, I'm creating this dashboard, but it doesn't count two assigned article: id:Gereja Pentakosta Isa Almasih Indonesia Efata Salatiga & id:Gereja Kristen Jawa Salib Putih. I don't know why. I have set the start and end dates and selected two Wikipedias. Edits were made in the period and in the selected Wikipedias, but still the two articles aren't counted. Cahyo (WMID) (talk) 03:33, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Cahyo (WMID): thanks for catching this! This was because of some incorrect data due to a bug that I fixed recently. I thought the bug only affected the "recent revisions" list for user, and didn't notice that the incorrect data would also affect statistics and the 'edited articles' list for an Article Scoped Program, so a little more data cleanup is necessary. I've fixed the data for your event, and I'm working on cleaning up the data for other affected events now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:24, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Sage (Wiki Ed): Thank you! Looks great now! Cahyo (WMID) (talk) 03:25, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

#1lb1ref may-june 2021 dashboard

1. 1lib1ref may-june 2021 dashbooard : the dashboard includes the stats for the wikidata references which is not a part of the the #1lib1ref challenge (if it is, can I get a source please). Is there anyway to get the real numbers (without going to each participant library and clicking on their articles). French speaker here, sorry for the grammar--Scully1181 (talk) 12:39, 9 June 2021 (UTC)Scully1181

Scully1181: If you want to exclude the references for Wikidata edits, you can download a CSV of all the articles edited for the campaign and calculate it from that. The CSV includes a row for each article edited, including the wiki and count of net references added or removed, so you could filter out all the Wikidata entries and then sum the rest. Use the "Download stats" option here and click "Pages Edited".--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:31, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

How do I unenrol from a course

Hey there, I just accidentally joined the Summer of Wikivoyage 2021 Kosovo and Albania program, thinking I would be able to assist new editors. But I realised that is for the new contributors minutes later, and not to track contributions from new editors. How do I unenrol? Thanks! SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | w:User:SHB2000) 01:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000: I don't see you on the editors list for that event, were you able to remove yourself ok? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:25, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Seems like someone removed me. Thank you to whoever did that :) SHB2000 (talk | contibs | en.wikivoyage | w:User:SHB2000) 22:37, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Delete test

Could someone take the following test from "Miscellanea", so that I can delete the program? Thanks.

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Teste/Wikiconcurso_-_teste

--Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 17:30, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

@Felipe da Fonseca: looks like this is done? — xaosflux ^Talk 17:47, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Xaosflux Yes, thank you very much. --Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 17:56, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Translation and question

Hello, there are categories without translation, the following: "articles I am creating" and "articles I am improving", these categories are not available for translation either. I would also like to ask a question: how do I get the program to automatically add a template on the user page from the novice participant editors? Thanks, --Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 22:22, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Felipe da Fonseca: Thanks! I've put fixing those untranslated messages on my list and will get them into the translation system soon. To get the Dashboard to automatically add a template to a user page whenever they join a Dashboard program/event/course, the wiki needs to have automatic edits configured (which is done only for pt.wikipedia, cs.wikipedia, and pt.wikiversity so far).--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:51, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Felipe da Fonseca: Those messages are available for translation on translatewiki.net now. Thanks again.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:56, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Sage (Wiki Ed) thanks. --Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 19:11, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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Adding Micronations.wiki to list of wikis

Hi there, I am trying to organise an edit-a-thon on MicroWiki and I have just discovered this tool. Would it be possible to add the wiki to the list of wikis, so I can track the contributions of the people participating? Mattplaysthedrums (talk) 03:17, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

@Mattplaysthedrums: I expect that an administrator for Micronations.wiki would have to install the software. So far as I know, there are no documented precedents of installation outside the Wikimedia platform, so setting this up may not be straightforward. Here is the software

https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard

For context, the Wikipedia ecosystem manages itself, and each other wiki elsewhere has separate administration. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:12, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Mattplaysthedrums: the Dashboard code is built to a significant extent around Wikimedia wikis, as it uses the a Wikipedia account for login and it gets edit data from the Wiki Replicas. Adding support for arbitrary MediaWiki sites would be technically possible, but it would be a a pretty substantial amount of work.--User:Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed): An administrator from MicroWiki took one look at the code for the installation and almost fainted. I don't think that it will be installed anytime soon. Mattplaysthedrums (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Programs & Events Dashboard error

Hi, Programs & Events Dashboard is having an internal server error. When will the error be fixed? I need to check my programs. Thank you in advance. Cahyo (WMID) (talk) 07:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Cahyo (WMID): It should be working properly now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:23, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Programs & Events Dashboard and The stopping of the Wikimedia hashtag search for several days.

Hello everyone

I thought I was the only one but now I see that there are many of us

The first: since August 3, 2021 the page (Wikimedia hashtag search) is no longer disappointing and I can no longer follow the changes.

Second: For a week also the local page (OutreachDashboard campaign) no longer appears at all and there I do not know what to do :.

And long before all this, the campaign tracking pages (OutreachDashboard campaign) and the one (Wikimedia hashtag search) was not consistent in the results because the page (OutreachDashboard campaign) was too far ahead too even when I take into account on refresh days.

Today I do not know what to do and I am stuck because the participants ask me if their contributions are changing.

In the hope of an answer.--Azogbonon (talk) 12:46, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

There was configuration problem with the database server, which I just fixed; your event should be available again now. Can you explain more precisely what you mean about it being"too far ahead"? --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:25, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello dear friend --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) as I was not a target I did not see your answer quickly, it was just this morning I just saw it and thank you for the speed. Yes the outreachdashboard but the Wikimedia hashtag search one remains blocked on August 3, 2021. for my purposes (too far) it is better to show you the two links and to see the number of images inserted in the articles and to make the comparison of the two maybe I am wrong. outreachdashboard and Wikimedia hashtag search. Thank you for the answer.--Azogbonon (talk) 08:51, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Azogbonon: Thank you for the links. What are you trying to measure with each of these tools? The Dashboard does not directly track the number of images inserted into articles; it focuses on images uploaded to Commons (and whether or not they are used in articles), but won't count images uploaded by other users that get added to articles by the tracked users.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:56, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Error accessing Dashboard

Dear Dashboard team, My excellent colleague, W:User:Leedsproject2019, is experiencing difficulty using the Outreach dashboard. When she logs in, she gets a message saying "Leedsproject2019 has not participated in any courses." However, when she or I paste in the URL for her user account ([1] this one) we are able to see her course stats, including both the courses she has participated in as a student and as an instructor. Without being able to log in, she can view her stats but is not able to set up new courses so a speedy resolution would be really helpful for some forthcoming events. Could someone please investigate? Thanks in advance! Zeromonk (talk) 12:52, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Zeromonk, Leedsproject2019: I don't have any immediate ideas on what might be going wrong; I don't think I've seen this bug before. If one or both of you could email me screenshots (to sage @ wikiedu.org) of what the dashboard home page looks like when you log in and the place you see that 'has not participated' message, that would help me begin trying to figure out what's going on.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:19, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Note: we got this sorted out over email.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Bug report for dashboard

Hi, this is a short bug report

I'm unable to view students who have the question mark in their username as the last character (username ends with a "?"). It seems to be unable to identify that as a legitimate username.

Regards, --1233 （T / C） 16:50, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

1233: thanks for the bug report. Can you post an example of a username you had this problem with?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:09, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

CaesSion? 1233 （T / C） 07:03, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

1233: I think I've got this fixed now: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/The_University_of_Hong_Kong/CAES9722_Academic_English_for_BioMedical_Science_Students_2020-21/students/articles/CaesSion%3F --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:37, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

"Not an existing user"

​Hi, we have an issue with adding user:Sabkaa to our project. When we try it, there is an error message: "There was an error: Sorry, Sabkaa is not an existing user." Which is obviously fault. Any idea how to solve this? Thanks --Vojtěch Veselý (talk) 14:44, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Vojtěch Veselý: The problem here was that this user doesn't have an account on the home wiki for the project (cs.wikipedia), which is where the Dashboard looks for the username. So even though the account existed on en.wikipedia and pl.wikipedia, it couldn't be found when the system queried cs.wikipedia. In trying to figure out what was going on, I worked around the problem so I went ahead and added Sabkaa to the project. I'll make a note to update the error message to explicitly note the wiki, which should hopefully make it more apparent how to fix the problem when someone else runs into it.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:54, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

User:Sage (Wiki Ed): Thanks for the workaround. So in the future will it be possible to add a participant like this one? (The pl.wikipedia was in Tracked wikis, maybe it should help to fix the problem?) --Vojtěch Veselý (talk) 17:45, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

@Vojtěch Veselý: If the user simply visits the wiki while logged in, their account should autocreate there. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

@Vojtěch Veselý:: As Xaosflux say, making sure the user has an account on the home wiki (by visiting that wiki) is the fix any time this comes up. The error message will now say, specifically, something like "Sabkaa is not an existing user on cs.wikipedia.org".--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:14, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Why is non-existing domain allowed as a Home wiki?

Hi, I wonder why can I choose non-existing domain, such as "cz.wikipedia.org" (the correct is "cs.wikipedia.org"), as a Home wiki, when creating a new Program? Sometimes our volunteers type it by mistake and then it looks like it works, but of course it does not collect any data and they are confused. --Vojtěch Veselý (talk) 17:43, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Vojtěch Veselý: we had `cz` as possible wiki prefix, which is why it was possible to select that as a home wiki when creating a new program. (I'm removing it soon.) However, I'm not sure why it could have looked like it works, since whenever a new wiki gets entered, the Dashboard will check to make sure that wiki actually exists. When I try to put "cz.wikipedia.org" as a wiki for a program, I get an error message (and no new program actually gets created, because of this error). Does that sound like what happened with your volunteers?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:40, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

User:Sage (Wiki Ed): Thanks for removing it! Maybe I got it wrong and the program never worked. But still the error message probably was not specific enough for them to solve it. Regardless, thanks for the reply. --Vojtěch Veselý (talk) 19:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Dashboard for Ada Lovelace Day - 24 hour Global Edit-a-thon

It would be great if someone experienced with the Dashboard could check to see if we managed to track edits and new articles on more than just en.wikipedia, Wikidata and uploads to Commons. We had hoped to gather data on the worldwide editathon on 12 October. Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Day gives details of the participating countries. Your help would be appreciated.--Oronsay (talk) 01:40, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Oronsay: There's no way to automatically track edits on all wikis, but you've correctly set it up to en.wikipedia, ha.wikipedia, Wikidata, and Multilingual Wikisource (wikisource.org, as opposed to en.wikisource.org or any other version). You can add any additional wikis you need to track, once you know them, and it should import the edits to those wikis.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:29, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Sage (Wiki Ed), thank you for reassuring me about the tracking we'd set up. I do understand that we would have to add the different language wikipedias individually. We were asked to add dag.wikipedia - but I was unable to do so and have no idea why. Can you help with this?--Oronsay (talk) 17:02, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Oronsay: Dagani wasn't on the Dashboard's list of languages. I've just added it and deployed the update, so you should be able to add that one now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Great news and many thanks, Sage (Wiki Ed). Successfully added.--Oronsay (talk) 17:48, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Dashboard not tracking edits again!

Wikidata for Libraries and notable Librarians on Nigeria please this event dashboard has stopped tracking edits of contributors in the past 5days is there any solution to rectify it? plus I have tried downloading the stat to see if the new edits made by participants were recorded but it doesn't seem to display any and the contest is ending soon. Bukky658 (talk), 20:57, 23 Oct 2021. (UTC)

It looks like the worker for processing the most resource-intensive programs stopped a few days ago and didn't automatically restart, so about 40 programs including this one had updates paused. I restarted it yesterday, and it looks like thing are working smoothly again.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Login via meta instead of en.wp?

Hi Sage (Wiki Ed),

For the context, when I try to login, I'm send to en.wp where I'm affected by a global IP block (as the institution IP is considered to be an open proxy, I appealed the block 2 times but no news yet...). Would it be possible to send people to meta instead of en.wp (the war on open proxy on en.wp seems to target a lot of institutions...).

Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 11:28, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

• This sounds like a bad idea, and it wouldn't be about only the project that dashboard is trying to use for global block, it is all projects - metawiki has a special exception so people can do things like appeal global blocks. In general, No open proxies applies everywhere. Notably, regardless of how you "login" - it isn't going to overcome the global block of any contributions to projects either - so just what are you hoping this would accomplish? — xaosflux ^Talk 11:35, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
• Technically, yes, it would be possible. It's not high on my priorities to change this because I think it would require more changes that just simple configuration variable switch. Xaosflux, since many users are allowed to edit over proxies on their home wiki with the `IP exempt` right (and without that, just being able to log in to the Dashboard doesn't do anything), maybe it would be relevant? --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

  @Sage (Wiki Ed): notably, IP blocks never prevent "logging in" so I'm not exactly sure what the problem is here? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:21, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

  • User:Xaosflux: oh, right! I forgot about that. I agree, I don't see any benefit from switching the login location except the minor one of making it a small bit less en.wiki-centric.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
    • @Xaosflux and Sage (Wiki Ed): oh, sorry, I meant global block as "a block on enwp only but affecting all existing accounts using this IP (even my main account with 3 million edit and 17 years old :/)" not a block globally on all wikimedia projects. No open proxies applies everywhere but enwp enforced it way more strongly than any other projects, AFAIK enwp is the only project that considers GLAM networks as open proxy. Also logging through enwp make it looks very English and Wikipedia centered (while most dashboards doesn't concerns either of those), meta seems a less biased option. And for the record, it's been almost 2 month that I tried to get an IP exempt, I'm send from one appeal page to another, it's quite long and complicated (as a seasoned user, I know the drill and I'm persevering but for a newbie this would be a barrier impossible to cross). Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 10:13, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
      • @VIGNERON en résidence: can you explain what the actual problem you are having is? Event managers can set up their event for any project, and "logon" should not be prevented by blocking, we even provided a special mechanism for account signups on enwiki even when the IP address has exceeded the creation limits. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:24, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
        • @Xaosflux: the problem is that I can't login on enwp (because I'm affected by the institution network IP block). Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 10:30, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
          • @VIGNERON en résidence: I understand, and there is nothing we can do about that - but is this preventing you from logging on to outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org? What happens when you try? — xaosflux ^Talk 10:47, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
            • @Xaosflux: when I try to login to Dashboard, it sends me to enwp and that's over. Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 10:51, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
              • • @VIGNERON en résidence: what specifically happens - Sage can look in to it more, but will need the exact errors - perhaps you can open a phab ticket with screen shots? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:54, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
                  • @Xaosflux: as I said, the error comes from enwp, not Outreach. The only thing outreach can do is what I'm suggesting in the title: not using enwp anymore (or not by defulat? or leaving the choice? is it even possible?). The message is the usual blocking message on enwp ("You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting this IP address.") and not an error, just a very wide definition of "proxy" and an aggressive protection. Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 14:07, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
• @VIGNERON en résidence: a local project IP block shouldn't be preventing you from actually logging in to the program and events dashboard, or from using it with other projects - can you open a ticket on the exact steps and exact error messages you are getting that is preventing this? The same problem seems like it would occur even if the logon source was say metawiki when you wanted to use an event on dewiki - metawiki blocks would be in the way. You can report the bug here - let us know the T#####. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:25, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
  • @Xaosflux: maybe I'm missing something but I can log on meta (the proof is that I'm writing this message, or any other wikis I tried in the past 2 months) but I can't log on English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia is the only one that block this IP (sse https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3A212.51.160.0%2F19&type=block ). Same for every people I'm training in the libraries and museums of the city. Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 15:46, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
    • @VIGNERON en résidence: my point is that your specific case seems to be only an example of the problem, not the actual problem: Local project specific IP blocks, (including one that could be made here on the meta-wiki) shouldn't be preventing logging on to the dashboard or from using the dashboard on projects where such blocks do not apply. I suspect the OAuth check needs to be reviewed. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:56, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
      • But even without using the Dashboard, I still can't log on enwp; clearly the problem comes from enwp and that's why I suggested not ussing enwp. I feel we are talking about different things. Anyway, I give up for now, I'll write a SQL query on https://quarry.wmcloud.org/ it will be easier for me. Cheers, VIGNERON en résidence (talk) 16:00, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
        • I'm very very confused now, the only types of blocks that would prevent you from directly logging in to the English Wikipedia, or any other public WMF project, would be emergency network blocks placed by the security response teams; certainly not the local project ip block you mentioned above. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:58, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Non registra le modifiche alle voci degli editori

Buongiorno,

non riesco a capire perché non registra le modifiche stanno facendo i miei colleghi sulle loro sandbox.

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Universit%C3%A0_degli_Studi_di_Torino/Diritto_Tributario_I_Semestre_2021-22/home

@CapitanoLorca: It's because it's type "Article Scoped Program", which means it will only track contributions to the specific articles or categories that are assigned for it. If you want it to track all edits, you can click 'Edit Details' on the home tab and change the type to 'Generic Course'. If you want to track a specific category or specific articles, you can add them here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Universit%C3%A0_degli_Studi_di_Torino/Diritto_Tributario_I_Semestre_2021-22/articles/available --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:15, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

adding unique URL for each view in statistics

Hi! I think adding unique URL for each view in statistics would be good for passing on links that show more precise display views than just categories of main tabs. --Zblace (talk) 07:34, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Zblace: Can you elaborate, and/or post screenshots of what you mean? I'm not sure which views you're talking about.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Maybe sending a specfic set of parametars of different settings to display a specific view would be a good option...no? --Zblace (talk) 21:18, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah, so you mean the filter settings on the Articles Edited view. Yes, that makes sense. I will add an issue for this feature request. Thanks!--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:01, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for responding and developing! --Zblace (talk) 05:01, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Lexemes not captured

The outreach dashboard don't seem to capture edits on Wikidata lexemes. It only captures it under "recent edits" but not on "characters added"

Currently, only mainspace edits on each wiki contribute to the 'characters added' stats. Fixing this so that (for example) edits to lexemes and properties are reflected in the main statistics for each event is on our roadmap.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:24, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

thank you User:Sage (Wiki Ed) for the respond. But can you suggest any other way to measure participants edits as I'm currently conducting a contest that is solely based on participants adding lexemes --Udehb (talk) 20:11, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Udehb: One way would be to download a CSV of all the edits, which you can get from the Home tab of the event by clicking 'Download stats' and then 'Edits data'. You'd need to filter that to get just the Lexeme data and sort it by user, but it might include the information you need to be able to determine the winners.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:19, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

thank you again for that User:Sage (Wiki Ed) will definitely try that. --Udehb (talk) 07:35, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Page not shown without logging in

The page when visited without logging in, shows an error message 'Page not found. :-( No such course International_League_Against_Epilepsy/ILAE_Wikipedia_Epilepsy_Project exists.' Can you please guide how to fix this? Diptanshu 💬 17:50, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

I think we sorted out the problem over email. (This happened because the course was set to `Private`, so only already-enrolled users could view it.) --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:26, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

'Schedule data update' ?

Hi, There used to be a way to start a project and count retroactively the edits of those users using the 'Schedule data update' button, which I can't find aynmore. Sage could you perhaps assist again? I am referring to this project. Cheers, Keren - WMIL (talk) 11:09, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE: recent Activity shows edits from today so perhaps I was just impatient... ;) Keren - WMIL (talk) 11:47, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Total edits disappeared

For the Auckland Museum staff and volunteers Dashboard, which I recently updated with additional participants, the data was tracking properly until a few hours ago, and now it is showing no edits at all (the activity log is fine, and same with Commons uploads). Could I check if there is something I can do to remedy this issue? --Prosperosity (talk) 00:01, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Prosperosity: It looks like it's currently set as an Article Scoped Program, but there are no assigned articles or categories that it's set to track. Perhaps it recently got changed to that program type by accident? If you change it to 'Generic course' type, then it should show you all the edits after the next update.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:03, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Sage: Ah, that will be the issue! I've changed it and hopefully the issue should be fixed. --Prosperosity (talk) 00:06, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Article views

Hi! I observed that from my contributions statistics that total article views as a student on the dashboard is 0. Is there any setting to activate the article views counter? Olugold (talk) 06:29, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Olugold: I'm not sure why that is showing 0. I will look into it.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed) Thank you. Olugold (talk) 20:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

It's a bug related to a previous change in how views are tabulated. It'll be fixed with the next deployment, probably sometime this week.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:55, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much @Sage (Wiki Ed): for looking into this. I really appreciate your efforts.Olugold (talk) 12:33, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

activity/plagiarism

HI, I translated the article https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ritter_Beard from the english version. I even wrote into the justification : « Ajout de contenu en lien avec la traduction de l'article en anglais. » as one can see in the historics which means : Added content related to the translation of the article into English. Thank you for taking that into account.

I also want to add that this situation seems to be related to the list of the original english titles of the works of the author that should not be translated (because those works do not exist in french).

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al,_Polytechnique_Montr%C3%A9al,_HEC_Montr%C3%A9al/1Bib1Ref_2022_-_UdeM_-_PolyMtl_-_HEC_(janvier-juin_2022)/activity/plagiarism

Can someone check this and help me correct this situation. Thank you ! --Marie D Martel (talk) 22:25, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Marie D Martel: That alert shouldn't be interpreted as saying there is plagiarism, just that the automated system flagged matching text so that someone could check for actual plagiarism. We don't have a way (yet) to record the fact that such a revision that got flagged isn't actually plagiarism.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:24, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

References

Hi, I created a Wikidata Edit-A-Thon event on the outreach dashboard for an upcoming event and noticed that the number of references added is not obvious. Please can you rectify it? Thank you. Olugold (talk) 12:56, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Olugold I'm not sure what you mean. It currently doesn't show any edits at all for this event, which is why the 'references added' number (and other numbers that are zero) are not displayed, but once there are stats to show, they should show up normally. Is that the issue?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:33, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I'll wait for the event to start then.Olugold (talk) 02:39, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Help

Hi Sage (Wiki Ed)! I observed that 'References added' is at 0 and we have added some references. Is it because the pages were created in the Incubator? Thank you. Olugold (talk) 07:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@Olugold: Yes, it's because the pages on are Incubator. The 'references added' stats are only available for languages that have an ORES article quality model, because we get the reference count for each revision from ORES.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:57, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Silenciamento de tópicos sobre mulheres

Estou participando do projeto e infelizmente o "modus operandi" tradicional continua em operação, a despeito de nossas atividades. Recriei um antigo artigo (Fernanda Mazzetto Moroso), com novas e atualizadas fontes, e foi sumariamente deletado. Acredito que os administradores tradicionais deveriam ter mais complacência dos artigos criados dentro de nosso projeto, ou cairá no mesmo problema a ser atingido.--Nahorlopesjr (talk) 22:56, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Manual update feature removed?

Checking to see why this feature was removed? I'm surprised enough people even know how it worked for it to be too resource-heavy. Meanwhile, for anyone creating Dashboard for metric reporting purposes, it's a big hassle to have to wait some number of hours between creating the Dashboard and getting reliable figures. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:17, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

I hear you. The manual-update feature basically tied up the same resources that are used to serve web requests (like loading a course or campaign). In some cases, users would run multiple manual updates at once, and in some cases it would be used on a single event that would take minutes or hours to update, which could (and did) bring the whole site down. This is in contrast to the normal update processes, where courses get drawn from a queue and updated using a separate pool of server resources. I expect to add more resources to the system soon to speed up the queue processing, but I'd like to find a way to safely re-enable on-demand updates as well at some point.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:14, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

File mover credited as uploader, not uploader

For a photo contest, I moved a bunch of uploads which had bad filenames. Now that I created a Dashboard for it, I see that I'm listed as the uploader, not just as filemover. Perhaps this is due to the stats not updating yet, but it's been about 4 hours since it gave me a 2-hour estimate for when it would be updated, and now just says "This program has been added to the update queue" without an estimate. (related to the section above). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:21, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

This is an old bug that we haven't gotten around to fixing yet.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:16, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Also looking for this as we have a bunch of files first uploaded with bad names and now moved. Would it be possible to get the uploads tab to follow the redirects? Any news on this bug? /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 08:31, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

No news. Unfortunately, this was one of the first features that I built myself, and I did it in a way that ought to be significantly rewritten to fix this bug. It may make a good internship project, though. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:26, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Yaptığım eklemeler.

Merhabalar, puanlamada yaptığım eklemeler gözükmüyor. Ne yapmamam gerekiyor. Sitenin kendisinde gözüküyor ama.

More Tab

Not seeing the more tab beside the search bar within my sandbox to move my article to the main space--Suchhmann (talk) 05:58, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

My edits are not being tracked

Most of my edits are not being tracked by the dashboard. What could be the problem

Alvinategyeka Alvinategyeka (talk) 21:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Alvinategyeka: Can you provide more details? Which event on the Dashboard is not showing your contributions, and what are some of the edits that aren't being tracked?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:16, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Clarification. My edits in wikigap Uganda are not being tracked by the dashboard. What could be the problem Alvinategyeka (talk) 21:17, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

The wikigap 2022 Uganda dashboard Is not reflecting my recent article creations. Its reflecting just a few. What could be the problem. Alvinategyeka (talk) 21:22, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Some specific examples would be very helpful. Which recent article creation(s) are missing?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:28, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

These are some of the missing articles on the dashboard of wikigap 2022 Uganda; Linda Agnes Auma Prudence Ukkonika Laura Kanushu Phiona Nyamutooro Charity Bainababo Jennifer Alanyo Taban Sharifa Aate

and many more draft articles that I submitted through AFC submission. They are not reflected any where on the dashboard. Alvinategyeka (talk) 22:37, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Linda Agnes Auma, Prudence Ukkonika Laura, Kanushu Phiona, Nyamutooro Charity Bainababo, Jennifer Alanyo, Taban Sharifa Aate Alvinategyeka (talk) 22:38, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Alvinategyeka Alvinategyeka (talk) 22:50, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the 10 articles on the dashboard. However the activity for the draft articles I submitted under AFC submission are not reflecting. The draft articles include;

Draft:agnes Kirabo Draft:Busingye peninah Kabingani Draft:Dr. Victor Nekesa Draft:Dr. Jennifer Alanyo Draft:Shatsi Musherure Kutesa Draft:Kayaga Baroda Watongola Draft:Vinka Draft:Doreen Kabareebe D'ron Draft:Tereza Mbire

Alvinategyeka (talk) 04:50, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah! I couldn't find the reason why those articles were not showing up last week, but I'm glad they're showing up as expected now. It might have been a problem with one of the replica databases getting behind. As for the draft articles, these aren't expected to be listed under "Articles Edited"; they will only be counted once they are moved to mainspace. The Dashboard does not (yet) have specific tracking for Draft pages.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:02, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Actualizar Estadísticas del Dashboard

Por favor, actualizar estadísticas del dashboard. No aparece el número real de ediciones, editores, artículos. YWCA-Honduras-ArteyFeminismo 2022

Hola @Likemonalisa:, la systema neccesita tiempo para actualizaciones de numeros, 18:00, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

French translation

The last paragraph is in English, even in the French version of the page... Thank you

Problème avec les mis à jours sur le tableau de bord

Ça fait déjà plus de 4 jours qu'il n'y a pas de mis à jour sur mon Tableau de Bord. --VALENTIN NVJ (talk) 09:48, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Something appears to have gone wrong over the weekend with the process that puts course updates into the job queue. I just refilled the queue manually, so your page should be updated within the next few hours. Meanwhile, I need to figure out what went wrong.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:26, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Some edits for 3Music Awards not being tracked

Hello, some edits of editors are not reflecting on the dashboard here. [[2]] A new article like en:Mark Okraku-Mantey isn't reflecting on the dashboard along with other newly created articles in Twi Wikipedia. Because of that the references added too aren't reflecting. With the Mark Okraku-Mantey article for instance there are 25 references. However, what shows in the editor's overview for the person who created it is less than the number of references added. Feedback needed. Thanks. Ampimd (talk) 17:00, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Issue seems to have been resolved. If any other issues is faced, I would present it here, Thanks. Ampimd (talk) 18:34, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Dashboard seems frozen

Hello,

Simon Villeneuve, Vero Marino and I have a dashboard that seems very slow to update: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CAPACOA,_Lacogency/Datathon_(25_avril_au_2_mai)/home#

It indicates we had 115 updates until now, but our indicators don't appear to be moving since yesterday afternoon.

The activity tab does show some recent edits although not my own (possibly because I am a facilitator).

The editor tab is clearly off, though. A lot of my edits are missing. And one user who has attended two sessions so far shows zero edits even though we know for sure he did make edits.

We would appreciate someone checking the Dashboard's settings to make sure it is functioning properly. In addition, please let me know whether or facilitators edits aren't included in the indicators. If they're not, I'll demote myself so that I can actively contribute towards the campaign's outcomes. Fjjulien (talk) 18:06, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Fjjulien: Sometimes the Dashboard can get behind for various reasons (either because the Dashboard update process is having problems, or because the replica databases have gotten behind.) Did the missing edits every start showing up again? If not, can you provide an example of one or more that are missing?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. The dashboard eventually captured all edits. I however noted that the dashboard continued refreshing several weeks after the end of the events. I wish there was a way to stop the dashboard from refreshing once the program is over. It would save resources for other dashboards that need them. Fjjulien (talk) 01:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Several new Wikipedias need to be added in.

5 Wikipedias in Taiwanese aboriginal languages can be add as Home Wiki or Tracked Wikis in Programs & Events Dashboard. They are:

• ami.wikipedia.org
• szy.wikipedia.org
• pwn.wikipedia.org
• tay.wikipedia.org
• trv.wikipedia.org

Does anyone can help us to add them into the tool? Dashboard is so useful that we can't do some promoting project without it. Thank you.--Reke (talk) 03:29, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Reke: I've added these language codes, and they should be available after the next deployment, probably within a day. I apologize for taking so long to get to this.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:22, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much. I applied this very early so no events were delayed, never mind. Reke (talk) 02:38, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Ip address blocked

Pls my IP address as been blocked help me out.

NOT TRACKING EDITS ON WIKIBOOK

Dear Admin, I have a project going on and I am using the outreach dashboard to track edits,however, I have observed it is not tracking new articles created on Wikibooks, any way you can help?

B.Korlah: This is because the Dashboard isn't (yet) configured to be able to track non-standard namespaces like the Cookbook namespace that you contributed to. We have an Outreachy intern who will be working on improving namespace support over the summer, and adding support for Cookbook and other Wikibooks-specific namespaces might be part of that project.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:28, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

B.Korlah: We now have namespace-specific statistics available!. I configured your Nigerian Cuisine project to track the Cookbook namespace. :-) --Ragesoss (talk) 17:18, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much B.Korlah (talk) 05:45, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikibooks Activity No being Tracked

Hi team,

Please for the Nigerian Cuisine contest, I added the Wikimedia project that was the aim of the project which includes Wikibooks. But Participants are complaining that their activities aren't being tracked on the dashboard. A lot of pages have been created, but it's not updating on the dashboard.

See here --Edriiic (talk) 22:38, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Edriiic: Unfortunately, the Dashboard cannot (yet) track contributions in the Cookbook namespace where those participants are editing. --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:29, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback.@Sage (Wiki Ed) Edriiic (talk) 18:17, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Error messages

Hello

Today this page (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/International_Museum_Day_Hungary_(2022)/home) shows the following error messages:

• There was an error: Internal Server Error
• There was an error: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
• There was an error: t.data.course is undefined

Below that "Loading..." is not finished.

Misibacsi (talk) 05:49, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for the downtime. This problem was tracked at task T307768.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:32, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

500 — internal server error. :-(

I am unable to access to the dashboard.

Internal server error

Ongoing internal server error at https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training

wikidata - concours musées

Les tableaux de bords ne se charges pas, et laissent apparaitre des messages d'erreurs, type : Une erreur est survenue : t.data.course is undefined.

comment faire ? --Marianne Casamance (talk) 12:25, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for the downtime. This problem was tracked at task T307768. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:33, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Wrong edits count

Hi,

I noticed that some edits are not counted in the Museums competition, namely those that had no statements or at least no instance of (P31):museum (Q33506). E.g. none of these edits: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q110416563&action=history or https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q9534463&action=history were counted (I checked it in the csv with list of edits). I specifically made the instance of (P31):museum (Q33506) as the first one just in case and it wasn't enough. :-( Please fix this and the counter. --Czupirek (talk) 11:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wrong edit count

Our event has not yet started yet it already lists 252 edits and citations added, however the users there have not yet started editing. My account was somehow counted, so I removed myself as an editor and am not sure if that still maintaining what happened while I was listed as an editor before I was removed. Is there a way to reset the count to 0 to begin the event today? Thank you. --- FULBERT (talk) 14:14, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

FULBERT: Each time an event goes through the data update process, the system will recalculate edit counts and remove the numbers for any editors who were removed in the meantime. It looks like this event sorted itself out and no longer counts those 252 edits of yours. (I apologize for the slow reply.) --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:36, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Museums competition - edit count not updating for 6 days

Hello, I have made a few hundred edits in the last 6 days (i.e. since 8 May), but the edit counter of the competition still writes my last one was on the 8th May at 7:47... I see some other competitors have even edits from today counted. Is that normal, or something went wrong? Or I am doing something wrong? Thanks, --Antissimo (talk) 21:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

@Antissimo: I have the same issue. I did +1k edits mostly in ukrainian museums category, but only 254 of them are counted as for 17th May. I observed before that some edits between 11th-14th May were not taken into account. I hope that everything will be updated a little bit later. --Lystopad (talk) 21:34, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Antissimo and Lystopad: I've used the 'Schedule Data Update' feature for this event, which should result in the system pulling in the missing edits after the next update. I will look into better ways of avoiding the problem that I believe happened here. If the numbers still look wrong a day from now, please let me know and I will dig deeper.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:45, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback! Actually, I gave up when I saw that my character count stayed at 88K for more than a week. But finally, it seems it counted my edits with a long delay, as I ended up with more than 500K characters counted, which came as a surprise for me. Antissimo (talk) 20:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Online Volunteers enabled

In the Program Details, there is a (new to me) option to enable Online Volunteers, whose edits won't be counted. How exactly does this work? I'm a very active Wikipedian doing my own thing, but when I do outreach, such as 1Lib1Ref projects, I do the activity that is part of the program. Because the dashboard can't tell the difference between my "program" edits and my normal edits, I do not enrol myself as an Editor in an outreach Program, but, in an ideal world, my "program" edits should be counted. I tried enabling Online Volunteers and then enrolling myself as an Editor, but nothing different seemed to happen. It never asked if I was one of those not to be counted or give me a way to turn on/off counting my edits. So I am rather confused as to what this does and how to make it work for me? I note there is no mention of it in the Documentation. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks Kerry Raymond (talk) 02:58, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Kerry Raymond: Only edits by users listed on the Editors tab will be counted. The 'Online Volunteer' role is not significantly different from the 'Facilitator' role; it's only useful if you need to have some kind of differentiation between different people in non-Editor roles. Currently, there are two ways that can be used to count an Editor's "program" edits without counting all the other edits they make during the program's time period:

1) Change the type to 'Article Scoped Program' and assign all the articles that you want to count (either individually, or using categories or templates to track sets of articles). For an 'Article Scoped Program', only the assigned articles and categories will count towards the stats.

2) When non-"program" edits get tracked, go to the Articles tab and (as a Facilitator) use the 'Tracked' toggle to untrack all of the articles you don't want to count. After the next update, those will be excluded from the stats.

I have plans to make these features more clear in the interface, eventually.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:54, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Anzahl erstellter Items?

Wenn ich mir das Germany Dashbord anschaue, dann steht da, dass insgesamt 47 Items erstellt wurden. Aber ich alleine habe im Museum of the Diocese of Rottenburg (Q15734330) über 100 Items zu dort ausgestellten Objekten angelegt.

Objekte und Veranstaltungen in Museen: Ort ist ein beliebiges Museum oder eine Unterklasse von Museum: location (P276) von museum (Q33506)/museum building (Q24699794) oder subclass of (P279) of museum (Q33506)/museum building (Q24699794)

Also müsste doch die Anzahl der erstellten Items deutlich höher sein. Und ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass das nur ich neue Objekte angelegt hat. --Wuselig (talk) 19:06, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm looking into this.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:57, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Delete a program I created

HI, I entered incorrect dates for a course but when I try to delete the program I get "You may delete this page if all campaigns are removed first". Keren - WMIL (talk) 09:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Done, @Keren - WMIL. -- Joalpe (talk) 17:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

EDITS NOT UPDATING ON THE EVENT DASHBOARD

I have been participating in the #1lib1ref #AfLibWk that started 22nd May, 2022 and I did my first edit on 23rd of May, 2022. So far, its just my first 11 references added that is showing on the dashboard, every other edits I have done till date have not been reflecting. On my wikipedia page, my edits are showing on the contributions but nothing is showing on my dashboard.

Contributions not being tracked on the dashboard...

Hello there. A number of editors contributed to #1Lib1Ref during the African Librarians Week (22 - 29 May)...the dashboard is still set to capture edits till 05 June. A number of editors have reported that their contributions are not being reflected for example User:Chiinobis who has been actively editing but the dashboard only captured 2 references. The same applies to User:Nkatorogo ...I'll provide the other names as and when they come in...

What could be the matter & thanks in advance AKibombo (talk) 19:51, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

AKibombo: Can you provide a few examples of edits that are not being reflected on the Dashboard? For the References Added numbers, only a few languages contribute to this currently (because the data currently comes from the ORES articlequality model, which is only available in a small number of languages).--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:11, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Olabisi11 my edits on the same dashboard are not been captured

Sage (Wiki Ed) thanks for your response. Let me try to give some more details

- The dashboard was set to capture contributions in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic Wikipedias - Indeed it's the References Added that are of particular concern and are not being reflected- here are the user names of those who reported this : User:Nkatorogo , User:Chiinobis (she started editing and the dashboard stopped reflecting after 2 days) as well as User:Olabisi11 Let me know if you need other details/examples Thanks again AKibombo (talk) 15:13, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Dashboard showing strange signs when interface language is changed to Hebrew

When I change the interface language to Hebrew all number fields get a "u" sign before and % after. I am using Chrome. Strangely this doesn't happen when I am in incognito mode, also not in Firefox, but does occur in Edge (also in InPrivate mode). It's not a big issue, but sometimes we like to show the dashboard to partners/collaborators and having it in Hebrew is helpful. Keren - WMIL (talk) 07:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Keren - WMIL: This was a bug in the Hebrew formatting for numbers that include unit abbreviations. Unlike most of the interface, the stats go through internationalization on the server to turn large numbers into human-friendly abbreviated version (like 1.2M instead of 1200000, for English). Most of the interface is translated in the browser, so it doesn't matter whether you are logged in or not if your language can be detected from teh browser, but the server-side translations only work if you are logged in. That's why it only happened for you in Chrome and not in incognito mode. I've made and deployed what I think is the right fix; I think it should look fine in Hebrew now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:58, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Sage. Amir, problem solved. Keren - WMIL (talk) 17:41, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Rédateurs

Salut,

Lors d'un de nos atelier, nous avons ajouté des utilisateurs à ce tableau avec un message de succès que les utilisateurs ajoutés, mais par surprise, vers le soir, le nombre d'utilisateurs n'ont pas augmenté et le tableau n'a pas traqué tout ce qui était fait ce jour là. Merci Yves Madika (talk) 10:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Edits not reading on the dashboard

Hi, I logged in on this dashboard and my edits are not counting. I have created about 15 articles since yesterday and till now I'm still seeing only 3 articles showing even though the dashboard has updated severally. Some Editors on the dashboard have also observed this issue. Kindly look into it. Thank you. Kingsley Nkem (talk) 12:38, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Kingsley Nkem: See my explanation below; it's only displaying articles you edited based on the first 500 articles for the whole event, unless you load additional articles by clicking 'See More' on the Articles tab. --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:43, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Update issue

Hi Sage!

The dashboard is not reading accurately according to the total number of edits made by editors even after updating. I raised the concern during the office hour. My Contributions is an example. Since yesterday I have edited over 50 Wikidata items and it's still at 19 even after updating severally. You can see it here. Thank you! Olugold (talk) 23:24, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

I've figured out what's going on here. The list of articles you've edited, as shown in the link above, is incomplete because it only represents articles you edited from among those shown on the Articles tab for the event, and it only loads 500 articles unless you request more. If you click 'See More' several times on the Articles tab and then navigate back to the display of your work, it will show a larger number. The Dashboard can't handle loading all articles at once for very active events like this one (which has more than 14,000 articles edited). The aggregate stats are still being tabulated correctly, it's just a matter of an incomplete list of 'other articles edited' for individual editors.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:42, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway v White United States Supreme Court

I would like to have Wikipedia in my own name Sheila White instead sharing with others that has the same name such as Sheila White the movie actress. I am on Wikipedia Burlington Northern Santa Fe page only in White. I would like to have my own. Could you please tell me how and what to do? People have a hard time trying to find me when I'm all over the internet. This is a landmark Supreme Court Case when it is used everyday in classrooms and courts. I can be reached swhite50@yahoo.com

                                           c                                   Thank You, Sheila White 2600:1700:BCD1:1F70:741B:308F:D5DB:CEC2 01:08, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Edits Continue to Be Tracked

Edits from users continue to be tracked, long after the program ended. I set up the program page event to end months ago. Is there something else I need to do to stop edits being tracked? Thanks! Jpcohen (talk) 19:02, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Jpcohen Hi! Can you provide a link to the program? It should only count edits that happen before the end date, but the 'Activity' tab shows the most recent activity by participants (pulled directly from the wikis, rather than from the Dashboard database) regardless of when it ended; it's intended to let you see which users are still active after an event has ended.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:06, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

No of articles is not updated

I have created a dashboard here - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Dr_G_Shankar_Govt_Women's_College_Udupi/Wiki_ELearning. It is not updating the number of articles created. Students have created more than 50 articles. But the dashboard is showing 28 from many days. Pavanaja (talk) 11:56, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Pavanaja: Hi! It looks like it's showing more than 50 articles now. Are the some that still not being counted, or has the system caught up?--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:07, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

No. There are 105+ articles written so far. But it shows 55 only--Pavanaja (talk) 14:20, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

I think it's working properly now, but if there are still missing articles, please let me know which ones and I can look into it further.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:50, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

take into account Wikidata contributions

A new ticket "https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org should take into account Wikidata contributions" has been created at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315116 after today's talk "How to organize a local hackathon" during Wikimania Hackathon mentioned this tool. Mutante (talk) 21:04, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for posting here Mutante! It's all taken care of now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:49, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Articles Edited doesn't reflect activity

Hi! We're having an event, and although editors have made edits to several articles (and these appear in Activity), the dashboard only lists 1 article edited. Is this an error or do we misunderstand how this count is tabulated?

Here's the dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Rochester/Wikipedia_for_Climate_Justice/home

Thanks!! – 𝕘wendy | ☎  17:07, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

• Seems to have updated now! Thanks!! – 𝕘wendy | ☎  12:44, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Dashboard not counting

Hi Sage! The dashboard I created for a program doesn't count articles created nor edited. What could the issue? See link here Olugold (talk) 18:17, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Holding Wikipedia Asian Month on outreachdashboard

Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed),

I am among the facilitators of a local Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM in Bulgarian) and this is the first WAM I participate in and the first time I use the dashboard at the same time. For that reason, first, I'd like to know if a check in meeting is planned and to participate in it, and second, to describe some challenges using the dashboard that make it difficult to manage the campaign. The main one probably is the fact that all the edits editors signed for the campaign make are listed and tracked while we would like to see only the ones related to it (only edits in articles dedicated to or relevant to topics on the scope of the edit-a-thon). Now the program is set to Tracked Namespaces bg.wikipedia.org Mainspace (without a passcode) and I am wondering if that setting is the proper one. How Project or Template can be used for example? We have a template for the WAM campaign and we could set a dedicated project - will this help in filtering only the relevant edits? In summary, I'd like to learn and master how to use the dashboard for edit-a-thons specifically (because they are significantly different from assignments-centric projects as the one I have experience with in LMSs) and would appreciate help both from you and from other WAM local-wiki-facilitators with guidelines and WAM-tested tips on how to take the best from the tool so to be as helpful and reliable to my fellow editors and Wikipedia users as possible.

Best, Pelajanela (talk) 04:22, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Pelajanela: The main way you can use the Dashboard to track only edits to articles related to your campaign are to change the type to 'Article Scoped Program'. With this setting, only edits made to either assigned pages or tracked categories (or pages with a specified template) will be counted. To set it up this way:

• Edit Details from the Home tab, and change the program type to 'Article Scoped Program'.
• On the Articles tab, click 'Assigned Articles' and scroll to the bottom.
• In the "Tracked Categories, PSID, PagePile id & Templates" section, add the categories and/or templates you want to use to determined which articles are in the scope of the edit-a-thon.
• Wait until the next data update, which should recalculate the stats based on these new settings.

Let me know if you run into any problems.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:40, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Awesome! Thank you for the swift, detailed, and super helpful response, Sage (Wiki Ed)!

Did all the steps, will wait for the next data update and write again in every case also for other contributors interested in that matter and potentially following this thread.

Best, Pelajanela (talk) 10:36, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Dashboard inability to track/record edits.

Dear Administrator, I created a dashboard for the past 15 hours to track the contributions of participants in my project, but it has not been able to show even a single contribution, the manual update option is taken off. Currently, the dashboard is 15 hours old but shows no statistics at all. Kindly assist fix this issue. Here is the link to the dashboard. Fatawu25 (talk) 10:39, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Fatawu25 It looks like it's working now. It can take a while to start updating, because there are a lot of programs that all need data updates so the queue is pretty long. Sorry about that.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:42, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the clarity.Fatawu25 (talk) 07:04, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Porblem with inscription students

Hello dashboard team, I have a problema with the student's inscription on dashboard platformn. We have an activity active and I have the option to register participants as usual, could you please tell me what is happening? I can also share by this means the users of the people participating in this activity.

I am attentive. Best regards. M. Monica Bonilla (WMCO) (talk) 18:35, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Monica Bonilla (WMCO): It needs a Campaign. You can either create campaign for it (for example, a WMCO campaign) or add it to the "Miscellanea" campaign.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:41, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you @Sage (Wiki Ed). Could we create a campaign for Wikimedia Colombia? Do you know how I can make this request? For example: Activities Wikimedia Colombia 2023. M. Monica Bonilla (WMCO) (talk) 18:48, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Monica Bonilla (WMCO): You can create a new campaign from here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:51, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Non-English users are confused when requesting or creating a user account

In Europe/Belgium we are nearly always organising non-English edit-a-thons. In addition to that we are a tri-lingual country... When users are creating or requesting a user account, via the Events Dashboard, their account is always created on wp.en, irrespective of the session home wiki. The new user accounts should be created on the "Home Wiki" as indicated in the event on the Programs & Events Dashboard. On the edit-a-thon earlier this week the users received their password by email after having requested their account, but could not login to wp.fr because of IP blocks on the school premises.

In addition to that the students were logging into wp.en, while they should have been on wp.fr instead. They needed to go manually to https://fr.wikipedia.org where they were refused to login due to the IP block, because their account was not yet created on the wp.fr... extremely frustrating to organise an edit-a-thon session this way... Can the account creation please be done on the dashboard session home wiki please? English speaking users will not be affected, because their session home wiki would be the English Wikipedia anyway... Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 21:29, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

@Geertivp currently there is a special workaround that allows for account creation via a bot an enwiki, when a project is otherwise blocking users. There is a mechanism for sysops on a wiki to "create" the local account for a global account if they want to. This may get looked in to with Event Center integration (see phab:T302584). — xaosflux ^Talk 16:06, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Trackind data on 5 years

Hello dashboard team,

I'd like to build a dashboard in order to track the activity of 5 years program (every year, around 75 new users) in cooperation with the TLV University, Science Oriented Youth program. The dashboad actually makes a limit of one year.

How can I achieve this purpose? The program's name is "TLV University, Science Oriented Youth - 2018-2022".

Thank you !

Ruti - (Ruti-WMIL), educator coordinator in Hebrew, Wikimedia Israel 10:35, 18 December 2022 (UTC) Ruti-WMIL (talk) 10:35, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Ruti-WMIL: There are two ways to do this. You can create 5 individual event dashboards for separate years, or you can adjust the dates to longer than one year after you create it. The one-year limit is intended to help keep the system from getting overwhelmed by long-running events with large numbers of highly active editors, as these can put a very large load on the system when it continually recalculates stats covering many thousands of edits. However, if your program is only tracking new editors, it's probably unlikely to cause any performance problems.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:08, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer! I also want to know if and how I can add hundreds of editors in the same program. Most of them edited only one article, but I would like to know who of them is going on editing many articles after they published the first article. Thanks! Ruti-WMIL (talk) 06:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

@Ruti-WMIL If you have the list if usernames and you just want to be able to add them all at once, I'll need to manually disable the maximum user limit for each of your events. You can email me a list of them at sage@wikiedu.org and I can do that. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

References are not displayed

As part of this programme, editors added references.But it does not display .

Akbarali (talk) 10:11, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This is a known limitation of the current system for classifying Wikidata edits; the Dashboard uses edit summaries to determine what changed in a Wikidata edit, and these edit summaries often classify an added reference as something more general like 'changed claim'. This is something I'm hoping to address within the next year; it will make a good internship project.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:06, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Glossary of stats terms & new editor count

Dear @Sage (Wiki Ed),

Hope you are well! I have two questions: I was wondering if there is a glossary available for the terms used in the reports for the P&E dashboard (e.g. new editor, new editor retention etc.), and also if I am correct that P&E dashboard measure new accounts register during the indicated event tracking and not in the 14 days before the start of an event? Thank you so much for your kind reply! Best wishes, MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 11:30, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

We don't have a complete glossary, just a bit of documentation on the FAQ page.

You're correct that 'new editor' count only measures registrations that happen during the activity tracking period of an event. New editor retention is based on a new editor making an edit (to a wiki that the Dashboard is tracking for that user, so generally only to a wiki being tracked for that event, unless the editor is participating in another event on the Dashboard as well) at least 7 days after the end of the event (but typically, only extending up to 30 days afterwards, as that's when the system stops updating an event). Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:35, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Supprimer dashboard

comment Art Féminism 2023 au Togo? Hermannkass (talk) 14:48, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

My name was not added as an editor

I m a member of the classroom but my username is not included in the editors list. Awe Fadekemi (talk) 21:37, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

The instructor may be able to provide you with an enrollment link that you can use to add your username to the Dashboard. Ragesoss (talk) 21:51, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard not tracking edits....

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed),

I created a dashboard for 1Lib1Ref but I notice that it has not been updated since Thursday 4th February and yet we have been contributing as group. What could be the matter? Here is the link to the dashboard

Thanks in advance...

AKibombo (talk) 10:11, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

It looks like the queue for resource-intensive events has been backed up for the last couple of days because of an event that is taking a very long time to update. I'll keep an eye on it and see what I can do if it doesn't finish updating within the next day or so. Ragesoss (talk) 21:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

@Ragesoss, thanks for this response. I guess let's be patient, I'll also keep an eye on this.

AKibombo (talk) 15:16, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Good day @Ragesoss, any update on this? I have checked the dashboard in question and there seems to be no change. If I may ask, what are my options at this point? Thanks in advance,

AKibombo (talk) 10:21, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm working on it today. Still not sure what's wrong with the event that is stuck and causing the rest of the system to back up, but I hope to have it sorted out soon. Ragesoss (talk) 18:12, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Good day @Ragesoss, I have just checked the dashboard and it looks updated...thanks for your support on this. AKibombo (talk) 12:51, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard not tracking edits for both Wikipedia and WikiSource

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed), I created a dashboard for a program that held last week. The dashboard doesn't seem to track edits and it's been 3 days since the last update. Please look into this. Here's the link to the dashboard. Thanks in advance. Timzy D'Great (talk) 13:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

@Timzy D'Great, sorry to insert myself into the conversation....for Wikisource, you may be better off using the Wikisource Contest Board : https://wscontest.toolforge.org/ - it is the recommended one for Wikisource contests and activity. Let me know if you need any help with it....but @Sage (Wiki Ed) can advise you better....

AKibombo (talk) 15:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

I also wanted to report this. Just now this outreach won't track anything. Rima H (WMID) (talk) 08:54, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Rima H (WMID): That event is set to track edits only for a short period of time, approximately 1 hour. If you change the end of the tracking period, it should show data for the edits that participants have been making.--Ragesoss (talk) 16:59, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing edit-a-thon dashboard in Outreach

Hi! I was directed from the Teahouse for help: I was looking for any guidance on editing descriptions within the outreach dashboard platform - I found the following example and would love be able to use the bold/header features. As I am editing though I cannot seem to make anything work to get this look. Thanks! (example below, not my work) https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/American_Physical_Society/Expanding_Space_in_Astrophysics_-_A_Wiki_Edit-a-thon_(April_10,_2022)/home CamrynBell (talk) 23:36, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi! To add formatting to an event description on the Dashboard, you need to use markdown syntax. See https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ for example. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

THANK YOU! I was going around in circles trying to figure this out - much appreciated! CamrynBell (talk) 02:54, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

HTML tags in training library texts

Hi:

At https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editing-wikipedia the text shows html tags as regular text. Seems an obvious typo.

FYI. Olea (talk) 17:14, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Which language? (I don't notice any html tags in English.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard is in Spanish but the content is in English. You can check this screenshot https://imgur.com/a/UNGqocl Olea (talk) 10:12, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for the very late follow-up! I believe the problem is related to the fact that the source page on meta is enabled for translation in Spanish but is 0% translated: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Training+modules%2Fdashboard%2Flibraries%2Fediting-wikipedia&action=page&filter=&language=es

However, the fact that it's not handling that situation well is a Dashboard bug, which I'll file so that we can address it eventually. Thank you for reporting this! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:27, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Error contacting the parsoid/restbase server (http 404): (no message)

An editor on one of our Programs is encountering the error message "Error contacting the parsoid/restbase server (http 404): (no message)" when they try to publish. I could use guidance on how best to resolve this issue. If this needs to be asked somewhere else or additional information is needed, please let me know. 2600:4040:A4B1:1D00:5974:FE3C:D19F:2456 22:38, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

IP address being blocked during editathon

Participants at my editathon are being blocked from creating accounts because the IP address has reached a maximum. I have a dashboard for the editathon here: [3]https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Simmons_University/Women's_History_Month_Edit-a-thon_at_Simmons_2023_(March_2,_2023) Clio.at.work (talk) 18:16, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

@Clio.at.work (1) Are you creating the account using the dashboard itself? (2) Can you share your IP? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:10, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

You could activate the "enable account requests" button, so participants could request an account, instead of creating one themselves. Participants need to enter a valid email address so they are sent an initial password after administrator approval. Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 09:56, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Accidently Removing Articles From Edit-a-thon

I'm running an edit-a-thon in two days and noticed that in the Dashboard users can, after assigning themselves an article, also remove the article from the Edit-a-thon. On the homepage after assigning yourself an article, I don't see any way to send it back to the pool of available articles, just the remove button. That removes it from the event completely. Is there any way to prevent this? I would've thought the remove button moves the articles back to the available articles section. Here's the event. Thanks. Tdewysoc (talk) 14:20, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

There's not currently a way to do this, sorry. I'll keep it in mind for future improvements.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:39, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata edit- a- thon Dashboard

hello, I'm an editor on the wikidata edit-a-thon contest for Unlocking_Nigerian_Democracy_on_Wikidata_-_Documenting_Senators_and_Reps, and each day I check the dashboard my number of edits keep reducing. please check it out. Thanks. Nelospecial (talk) 06:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi! This can happen for a few reasons. If any content was deleted, then numbers will go down because of that. But if you're specifically referring to the 'recent edits' counts for individual users on the Editors tab, that goes down because it's not the count of total edits, it's just edits within the last 7 days; it's intended just to show which users have been active recently so that you can identify new contributions and check them out.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:41, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Passcode

I cant find a passcode to join the wikidata training Cybrarianelex (talk) 12:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

@Cybrarianelex can you share the link / training that you can't join? — xaosflux ^Talk 12:59, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard not tracking Wikidata edits

Hi there! Thanks for all you do. On this dashboard, editors have added more than 100 descriptions in the past 2 days but it's still at 70+ 2 days after the editathon commenced. Please can you look into this?. Thank you and looking forward to your response. Olugold (talk) 09:22, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Is it still showing incorrect numbers? It's close to, but under, 100 right now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I think it's updating now. Olugold (talk) 19:47, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard show that no such course exist

Hi I have  an issue with my dashboard some times it works, an other time doesn't work,  I don't nkow why

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda/Mois_de_la_contribution_de_la_Francophone_au_Rwanda_2023/students/overview,

Please if you could help, help me, and tell what' is wrong,but now from yestarday I can't access it

Cnyirahabihirwe123 (talk) 06:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

@Cnyirahabihirwe123: that course has been configured with the 'Private' setting, so it can only be viewed by logged in users who are already participating in it. If you change that setting to Private: no', it will be accessible to everyone and won't required you to be logged in. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your reaction, but the issue which I have is that even me the Owner I can't access it, how should I change that private to make it available to everyone? as I can not open it? it is me who created it Cnyirahabihirwe123 (talk) 18:24, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

It is now working, thank you very much @Sage (Wiki Ed), I removed the private mode too🙏 105.178.37.141 18:34, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

The dashboard can't track the contibution

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed), I hope you are doing well , I had an issue with this dashboard again https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda/Mois_de_la_contribution_de_la_Francophone_au_Rwanda_2023/home it can't track the contribution done.

Thank you , I am waiting for your reaction, Cnyirahabihirwe123 (talk) 17:40, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

@Cnyirahabihirwe123: Can you provide details about what isn't working as expected? I see that it's tracking some contributions. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:49, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed), It is okey now , it has been a long stopped increasing, we contributed and no changes it showed, but I am happy to see that now it started tracking contributions

Thank you Cnyirahabihirwe123 (talk) 05:59, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Articles created not updating

Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed). This dashboard updated some hours ago but it is not updating in terms of articles created. I'm surprised it's at zero and I'm sure we created articles. Could you look into this please? I look forward to receiving your response. Thanks Olugold (talk) 16:07, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Olugold: can you provide examples? If there's a specific article that isn't showing up that you expect to be there, I can look into it.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Alright. I quickly created a new dashboard and the articles count updated immediately. Seems there was an error in creating the dashboard linked above. We noticed from the tracked namespaces we saw user space/page instead of main space. I'm really sorry for bringing it up here because at the moment of adding this topic we didn't know what to do... We figured it out eventually. Thanks Sage for all that you do. Olugold (talk) 23:26, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Glad you got it figured out. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:28, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

blocked IP address

I cannot access my account because when I try to enter my wikimedia account it says "your IP address is blocked because of vandalism". But I did not share anything yet. White chocolate2003 (talk) 19:23, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Items edited view

Items edited now shows all of the items divided into 100 per page. I need them all in one page. And there is no option to select how many items to view per page. Rima H (WMID) (talk) 04:57, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Depending on what you need such an all-in-one-page view for, you might find what you need by downloading a data CSV with the list of edited pages. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Wiktionary Shawiya

HI!

I can't add shy.wiktionary in to any program on dashboard [4] .

Is there any way to fix this please?

Thanks! Great11 (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

I've just added 'shy' as an option, so you should be able to add shy.wiktionary now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Great, it's work now.

Wikidata Contribution not showing

Hello,I have been contributing to Wikidata but my wikidata Contributions have not showed on the activity page for days now here and here but when I contribute to Wiktionary and Wikipedia,it shows on the dashboard activity page, please what might be the problem as the first dashboard I pasted the link up only track my Wiktionary edits but doesn't track that of wikidataAkwugo (talk) 17:57, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Can you give some examples of Wikidata edits that are not being tracked? This is a very active event, so it does not load the full list of edited articles when you view your individual activity page (here) but it does show Wikidata items if you click 'See more' a few times. The 'activity' tab (here) is data pulled directly from the tracked wikis, but it is just a snapshot of recent edits and not a complete listing of what is or isn't be tracked for the event statistics. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:52, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Internal server error

Hello, I am trying to create an event dashboard, and I get an internal server error. Kindly assist. Shahadusadik (talk) 18:57, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Here https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/course_creator

Shahadusadik: what did you try to enter as the Description? I found the error log, and it looks like there is a character in that field that isn't compatible with the Dashboard's database format.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:02, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Yes. This was fixed.Thanks Shahadusadik (talk) 09:54, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Не дали возможность оспорить удаление

Сегодня утром получила опрос о том, чувствую ли я угрозу безопасности. Я ответила "да", потому что мою статью удалили через полгода после публикации, несмотря на картину известного художника, упоминание с 19 века, историю с часовней, наличие древнего названия, неоднократные мировые чемпионаты по мотокроссу, уникальный природный ландшафт, удалили под предлогом, что мои источники описывают предмет статьи лишь косвенно, а таких источников было 10, хотя это старейшее место города, что и указано в источниках напрямую. Зашла к номинатору на удаление, почитала его созданную свежую статьи про ничего не значащего хоккеиста, не успевшего ничего сделать и завоевать хотя бы одну награду, сыгравшего один единственный матч в соревновании каких-то ничего не значащих команд с одной единственной неавторитетной ссылкой на какой-то хоккейный форум, ужаснулась. Его одна единственная ссылка ведёт на состав команд, где среди прочих двух десятков указана фамилия этого неизвестного хоккеиста. И это вся информация. И его статья никем не подвергается в Википедии обсуждению. Вот такой человек выносил решение. И эта несправедливость очень ранит. Не может удалятор попирать все требования в своей статье, при этом удаляя чужую статью под надуманным предлогом.

Many updates blocked since June 9

Akwugo, Spyridon Eftychios Kokotos, Olugold, Kerry Raymond: It looks like there was one particular event that was stuck during the update process, which resulted in a 3 day backlog for updates for about half of the active events (the ones that use the 'medium' update queue because they take a medium amount of time to update usually). I reconfigured the update system to let multiple workers handle the 'medium' queue, updates should resume for all those stuck courses within the next few hours.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:19, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Alright, waiting for updates Akwugo (talk) 18:44, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much @Sage (Wiki Ed)! It's working perfectly! Spyridon Eftychios Kokotos (talk) 23:00, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks so much. Olugold (talk) 08:02, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

No contribution Tracked

Hello, I am trying to create an event dashboard but it does not track anything, i have created more than 3 now but i get the same problame. 197.250.61.15 11:19, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard not tracking

Hello,I created a dashboard for our event which started since 9th June,but the dashboard tracks no edit and it's showing 0 Edits,but it's activities showed participants are really doing something.here is the dashboard Akwugo (talk) 04:25, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard is not updating

Hi Sage! Hope you are doing great. The event dashboard for our event did not update after waiting for 3days for update. 3days after, it still did not update. Any idea of what could be the problem? I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks. Olugold (talk) 01:01, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard is not updating

Same problem as above. We have a GLAM partnership and they are not seeing the files they have uploaded to Commons. 07:43, 12 June 2023 (UTC) Kerry Raymond (talk) 07:43, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard is not updating

Hello,

A few editors (including myself) made recent changes to wikidata but, the system says that the last update was: "3 days ago". Although, I cannot see any error in the corresponding website [5] so far and that's what troubles me. Our dashboard link is [6] I am looking forward to hearing from you about the updates. Thanks in advance! Spyridon Eftychios Kokotos (talk) 14:03, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard is not updating #2

Hello (again)!

The issue I reported on June 12, 2023, at 14:03 UTC, has been resolved , but the solution didn't last long. Since last night, the dashboard [7] I'm participating in states that the last update of the statistics occurred 16 hours ago, along with the following message: "A new update was expected about 2 hours ago."

I will be waiting for your actions and your response to my message.

Thank you in advance for any actions you might take!

Best regards, Spyridon Eftychios Kokotos (talk) 10:37, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

I think everything is back on track now; I needed one more manual step to get the queue working smoothly. This particular event is active enough that it got moved to the 'long' queue with other resource-intensive events, so will probably only be getting approximately 1 update per day. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:32, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

fat

Greetings, The Fante Wikipedia (fat) is currently not included in the list of trackable wikis on the outreach dashboard. The Fante Wikimedians community is actively engaging in campaigns and editing activities. It would be greatly beneficial if this issue could be addressed, as organizers are keen to monitor the participation of contributors. Robertjamal12 ~🔔 05:28, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Robertjamal12: I've just deployed an update to add Fante support. You should be able to track it now. :-) --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:35, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Sage (Wiki Ed) -- Robertjamal12 ~🔔 18:01, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Unable to delete duplicate campaign

Hi Wiki Edu team, hope you can help me out with this: I am trying to delete a duplicate campaign, but I get a notification '"Gendergap WMNL 2023" is not the title of this campaign. The campaign has not been deleted.', though the title of the campaign actually is Gendergap WMNL 2023 (see here). I also tried the slug but that isn't working as well.. Hope you can help me, thanks so much in advance! MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 11:38, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

@MichellevL (WMNL) from this search result - what is the exact name of the one you want deleted? (Please ping on reply) — xaosflux ^Talk 14:05, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

@Xoasflux thanks for replying, the title is Gendergap WMNL 2023. I have the same problem with another campaign 'TEST Deel je Data Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen'. Please let me know what I can do to fix it, thank you so much for your help! MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 07:05, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

@MichellevL (WMNL) I've deleted these. It looks like there may be an encoding bug when you get to the point where you have to type in the name of the campaign to delete it. Workarounds seem to include: (a) select/copy the name from the popup dialog itself; (b) rename the campaign to something simple (it worked for me in basic ascii, no spaces), then delete it. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:33, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Xaosflux thanks for clarifying and the two workarounds, I should be able to manage! MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 06:34, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Stats seem to disregard the end date

Hi, I have a question about this dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_NYC/Depths_of_Wikipedia_-_The_Climate_Solutions_Editathon/home# . I'm trying to get statistics for just the day of the editathon, June 17. I had set the "activity tracking" start and end times for a six month period but then I realized this was a mistake and I changed the activity tracking end time to be just a few hours after the start time. The dashboard has since run an update but it's still tracking stuff from long after the editathon. How can I get the dashboard to just show me what happened on June 17? Clayoquot (talk) 18:08, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Clayoquot Is it still showing data based on edits that were not made during the tracking period? The 'Activity' tab will always show recent edits, regardless of the tracking time, but the rest of the stats and information should be based on the updated tracking time period now. If there's something that isn't correct (eg, an Edited Article that wasn't edited during the tracking period), let me know the details and I can look into it further.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:36, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

I think it's good now. Thanks! Clayoquot (talk) 14:16, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Typos in German text

Das Dashboard ruft Bearbeitungsdaten aus WMF-Cloud-Replikat-Datenbanken ab. Manchmal fehlen in diesen Datenbanken die neuesten Bearbeitungen aufgrund von Replikationsverzögerungen (Replace). Wenn dies der Fall ist, werden die fehlenden Bearbeitungen später angezeigt.Ersatz prüfen

in the status popup:

• replace -> replag
• and a whitespace before the last link Ersatz prüfen

--Christian Philipp (WMAT) (talk) 06:03, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

This can be updated on translatewiki.net, and would then eventually make its way to the dashboard.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:39, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I fixed the first typo. Did not find the place where to fix the whitespace in between Wikimedia:Wikiedudashboard-metrics.replag info and Wikimedia:Wikiedudashboard-metrics.replag link. best --Herzi Pinki (talk) 09:04, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

That's fixed now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Missing entry in dashboard

@Sage (Wiki Ed): I have an inconsistency with the outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/Ober%C3%B6sterreich_(2023)/home# and the listed items. Westlicher Hochplattenkogel (Q119884742) was created >3 days before, but does not show up as new item in the dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/Ober%C3%B6sterreich_(2023)/articles/edited?newness=new. It should be matched by https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=25220961 and indeed is matched (check csv output). I checked only this one, but now I'm not trusting the overall results any longer. I'm also maintaining and watching the dashboard. Any hint what goes wrong and how to fix it and avoid in the future? best --Christian Philipp (WMAT) (talk) 12:21, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I will look into this. I haven't done much testing of Article Scoped Programs that use a PSID for scoping; it might be a bug related to that.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:48, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

thanks, looking forward. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 08:51, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

This one is showing up, but because there have been more than 500 articles edited, it doesn't show up until you click 'See More' enough times that all the articles get loaded. By default, only up to 500 articles will be loaded. It is being counted in the stats. (The way the pagination and loading of large sets of articles works can be confusing, especially when combined with Wikidata items where they first render as Q numbers but then get replaced by labels once that data gets queried directly from Wikidata.)

The way I am able to see it is by using your link (with the newness=new filter parameter), then clicking 'See More' twice (which causes that button to disappear, once the full set of articles has been loaded), then searching the page for "Westlicher Hochplattenkogel"; it's currently on the first page of new articles when I do that. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:08, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed): ok, that is plausible, thanks for analysing. The look & feel of this page navigation is strange, IMHO. As a standard there are 5 pages shown, the indication that there might be more, is somewhere else (to the right side). Clicking next will lead me through these 5 pages and then stop. The usual behaviour with such next-button at the end is to stay at the end. But if it is realy the end and not some virtual end due to presentation restrictions. It would be clearer, if there is an ellipses for missing pages and next-button in any case will lead you from page n to page n+1 (if there is one) and keep you at the end, if there is no page n+1. best --Christian Philipp (WMAT) (talk) 18:52, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it's confusing! We have an update that improves the paging navigation somewhat, which will be live after the next update.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:55, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard reset to empty

Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed):, this seems to be urgent. The wikidata dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/Ober%C3%B6sterreich_(2023)/home# was reset to empty in the last update. No error message. There have been entries since the start of this dashboard, now zero. Can you please make this run again. best --Christian Philipp (WMAT) (talk) 06:00, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

It's not empty now. I'm not sure what might have gone wrong. I'll poke around and see if I can understand what might have been going on.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:20, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed): Saw that, not empty any more. Kind of hickup? An idea how to catch cases like this: if the number of contribs is set to 0 (after having been /= 0), then this might be caused by failed updates (of course, all contributers could have been removed, etc.) best --Christian Philipp (WMAT) (talk) 07:03, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Campaign dashboard underestimating number of edits (not urgent!)

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed) et al,

I was wondering if someone could help me? I've been organising multiple programmes, all under the same campaign (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/open_knowledge__university_of_st_andrews/overview) since 2021 and I'm very pleased with our results so far :-) However, the Campaign Dashboard appears to severely underestimate the data, such as the number of edits that have been made and the page views of articles that have been edited, in comparison to the Programme Dashboard.

For example, on the Campaign dashboard @Hat Jul has 68 edits listed, but globally they have made 92 edits across Wiki and Commons. For articles, the one on William Ferrel is listed as the highest number of page views (990) but there are articles in recent programmes that have received thousands of page views. Is there a difference in how the Campaign Dashboard and the Programme Dashboard count these various metrics? It would be fantastic if they were directly comparable, as I would like to use the results to advocate for more Wikimedia activity in my institution. Many thanks in advance for the assistance and have a great weekend when it comes. Drkirstyross (talk) 15:37, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

The 'Editors' tab of the Campaigns view only shows edit counts for individual courses. So 'Hat Jul' had 68 edits that were counted for the "Wiki Workshop for STEP students", but that user also participated in another event with 16 additional edits that were tracked. They likely have other edits that were not counted for either event.

The pageviews data for long-running campaigns are not very reliable, as the system stops updating view counts after about 30 days past the end date the event where they were tracked. The list of Articles on the Campaigns page is also paginated, so if you sort the first page by views (which puts 'William Ferrel at the top), it's only sorting the first page page of articles. The second page has articles with higher view counts.

In general, all the stats you see on the Campaigns page just come from adding up the stats on individual events. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:59, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

References counter works for ESwiki?

We have this campaign and we are adding a lot of references but the counter is still 0. Is ESwiki implemented? Thanks :-) Olea (talk) 19:24, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

No, not yet. I'm hoping to add reference counting for all languages in early 2024. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:49, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Embed function rejected

Hi! I have been using an iframe to embed stats from this dashboard in a website news item. All of a sudden it won't work, and the error message is "outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org avviste tilkoblingsforsøket" (outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org rejected your attempt to connect).

Is there a known server side issue that's causing this? Help to understand what's going on would be much appreciated. Elisabeth Carrera (WMNO) (talk) 15:14, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that. It was a new bug, which we fixed a little while ago. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Views not updating properly

Hi Sage! Thanks for all your efforts and prompt responses.

I observed that the event dashboard is not updating views accurately. From the statistics on the dashboard, this item has 0 view but from Xtool it has 5 views. Can anything be done about this because there might be a possibility that other items on the dashboard are not updating in terms of viewership?

Thanks for your anticipated response. Olugold (talk) 08:35, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

The view counts are only estimates, which come from periodically checking on the 30-day average views for a given article. Unfortunately, keeping fully accurate view statistics for every edited articles was too much of a performance bottleneck for the system. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:00, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Tracking all language WPs?

Hi Wiki Edu team, hope you are able to help me out with the following: for an edit-a-thon we hosted with a group of participants from a diverse background, I would like to track all WP namespaces, because we do not know what language versions of Wikipedia they have been editing specifically. Is there a way I can select them all without having to go through the entire list? Thank you so much! Kind regards MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 10:12, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

No, we don't have an option to track all languages. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:02, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

References Not Showing for this Dashboard

Hi,

So we are having a challenge with the references showing on this dashboard Wikidata for Campaign for the Twi Wikipedia. Owula kpakpo (talk) 10:45, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

This event happened before we updated the wikidata stats to be able to accurately count references. I've manually set it up to refresh using the new calculations, so hopefully you'll see some updated reference stats shortly. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:07, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Retention statistics

What is the best way to see which new editors continued editing after an editathon? If I look at the Activity tab, it is dominated by the experienced editors who volunteered at the event. Also in what may or may not be a related question, what are the "Activity tracking start" and "Activity tracking end" dates and how do they differ from the "Event start" and "Event end" dates? Clayoquot (talk) 16:40, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

The Activity tab gets data directly from the tracked wikis, and will always show the latest edits that the participants have made. We don't have an easy way to check for activity just from the new editors.

'Activity tracking start' and 'Activity tracking end' are the dates that the dashboard uses for calculating stats. The optional 'Event start' and 'Event end' are just for indicating when things like in-person activities are happening. It doesn't affect anything (unless the Timeline feature is turned on, in which case it determines when the first content should appear on the Timeline tab). Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:16, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Sage. Can I request that this capability be added to the dashboard? Many events have a goal of recruiting new editors so it seems strange we do not have the tools to measure results around newcomer retention. Clayoquot (talk) 23:23, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

There are some limited tools for checking for newcomer retention... if you download the Editor stats, in includes data on which new users made edits after the end of the event. However, it only continues updating for about 30 days. It would make sense to add an option on the Activity tab to limit it to only new editors; I will make a note of that request. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:36, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Image Description Month in India

Total no. of participants is 19 but showing 14 Editors total edits in Outreach dashboard instead of 19, Why? Salil Kumar Mukherjee (talk) 17:49, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Byte count error

There is something wrong with the byte count of this event. At this moment, this participant has only 89,476 bytes accounted by the dashboard, while our internal accounting indicates 237,945 bytes. The category is the same, the event period is the same, I don't see any reason for the discrepancy. ALeoncio (WMB) (talk) 13:59, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Do you know if it's still significantly out of sync with your internal accounting? If so, please email me with details and I can look into it. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:27, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

My dashboard isn't creating after telling to wait for program uniqueness

I have over the months tried creating a dashboard to track contest but it keeps telling me program error. Please resolve this Alhaj Darajaati (talk) 19:59, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Yikes, that sounds bad. Could you email me a screenshot of the error to sage at wikiedu.org? Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:28, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard not counting

Hi there! This is my first time of using the Beta event registration. I created a dashboard but it's not counting edits. I'm wondering if there's something I didn't do correctly. Kindly assist me. Thank you. Olugold (talk) 09:33, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

That event is on dashboard-testing.wikiedu.org, not Programs & Events Dashboard. It's not intended for anyone to use except for with testing during software development. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:30, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard underestimating edits(Not counting)

This [[8]] dashboard hasn't been updating for over 11hours. Kindly check for possible solutions as we await your swift response. Accuratecy051 (talk) 17:57, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Apologies for the slow updates. Sometimes the system gets behind, either because the Dashboard itself is under too much load or because the replica database that it uses has gotten behind, but it looks like it's been working recently. If there are still problems, please let me know the details and I will investigate. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:32, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Does statistics support ESvoy and ENvoy?

We have setup a project which nicely outputs the wikidata activity but it doesn't print ESvoy activity. Does the application supports VOY or did I something wrong?

Thanks! Olea (LaOfi) (talk) 10:05, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi! It looks that project is gone now. By VOY do you mean Wikivoyage? If so, it ought to work as long as Wikivoyage is among the Tracked Wikis for that project. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:33, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi.

> It looks that project is gone now.

Th url moved after a configuration change, sorry: PICAS_2023

> By VOY do you mean Wikivoyage?

Yes.

> it ought to work as long as Wikivoyage is among the Tracked Wikis for that project.

It is in the tracked wikis. I got a wonderful stats board for the Wikidata activity but not for ESvoy. Olea (talk) 11:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Those stats only show up if you have specific tracked namespaces (except for Wikidata). I added tracked namespace to your event and now they are ready. However, we don't have the kind of detail that is available for Wikidata. Ragesoss (talk) 18:39, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh. Now I see what that «Tracked Namespaces» means. Thanks! Olea (LaOfi) (talk) 19:05, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard history

Hi all, might be good to add a short section on the history of the dashboard -- when it was launched (was it 2016?), maybe mentioning it replaced the Education Extension, and that the API tracks only Pageviews from the new WMF API, but if (like me) you are tracking programs with historic data, then it will not give the numbers from the previous API. Just a suggestions. Best, Shani Evenstein. 20:56, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! This is good idea. It might be something we can address as part of our upcoming internship project to improve the documentation. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:26, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Dashboard Inability to Track Wikisource

Hi there! This is the first time working on a Wikisource project in my community. The Dashboard is not tracking my edits and that of the participants, even the activity tab is not responding. Please can you kindly assist and advise. Thank you Lebron jay (talk) 16:10, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi. It looks like it is tracking the edits of the those who are signed up as editors. You are signed up as a facilitator but not an editor, so it won't track your edits until you add yourself as an editor as well.

It looks like fetching from the API international Wikisource is not working as expected, which is likely a Dashboard bug. I will file an issue for it so we can fix it. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your timely feedback @Sage (Wiki Ed). While you work on this, is there another way I can go about tracking the edits while the issue is being fixed?. Lebron jay (talk) 20:10, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

The edits are still being tracked, it's only the Activity tab that does not work. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

User contributions not showing on dashboard

Hi Wikiedu team, we are currently in the last hour of an edit-a-thon here in the Netherlands, and the edits of one user ([9], edits on NL WP) are not showing in the dashboard (link) while I do see them in the users contributions on NL WP.. Any idea what is going wrong and what we could do about it? Thanks so much! MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 16:16, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure why it was not showing up previously. It might have been replication lag, or there might have been a temporary problem while the Dashboard was trying to import edit data. It looks like it's showing edits for that user as expected now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:30, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed), they did indeed, thank you very much for checking it and getting back to me (sorry I got back to you only now, covid again..) Thanks again, best wishes, MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 10:44, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Tracking kowiki mainspace

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Australia/Korean_Wikidata_(From_March_2023_to_December_2023)/home asks for tracking of kowiki mainspace, but this doesn't seem to be happening (?) ̴̴̴̴ MargaretRDonald (talk) 22:16, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

It looks like the only tracked namespace in en.wiki mainspace. ko.wiki edits should be included in the overall stats, and any edited articles will appear on the Articles tab, but you need to add ko.wiki mainspace if you want to get isolated stats for it. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:28, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, very much. MargaretRDonald (talk) 06:41, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

My programs are not tracked yet

Hi Wikiedu teams! Two days ago, I made a new program in the Dashboard named WikiPatriot (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Komunitas_Wikimedia_Jakarta/WikiPatriot/home) that tracked edits in id.wikipedia, commons, and wikidata. This is an article-scoped program and I use PagePile to collect the articles. But, I haven't seen the results yet. How long will it takes for the results to come out? Thanks. RaymondSutanto (talk) 04:54, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

It looks like it's working now. Normally, it should start tracking within one day;currently, the system is updating every 2-6 hours, depending on which processing queue an event is. There might have been some congestion in the system last week, though; I'm not sure why it took that long to start showing results for you. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:27, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Mistake in program type selection

Please, I mistakenly selected Edit-A-Thon instead of Article Scoped Program and created my dashboard. How can you assist me in changing it from Edit-A-Thon to Article Scoped Program? I would be very happy if that could be possible. Achiri Bitamsimli (talk) 15:05, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

You can change the program type after creating it. Click 'Edit Details' on the Home tab, and then change the Type selector and click Save. The next time the stats are updated, they will be recalculated based on the new type. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:05, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Women_for_Sustainability_Africa/Wiki_Women_in_Red_Workshop_(Nov_18th_2023)/articles/edited?

Presumably this dashboard is an outcome of a Wikidata query. Can it be restricted to women, or at least to people who don't have gender male? At the moment it's less useful than it could be :) Dsp13 (talk) 20:28, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

pinging CoachAni as they are involved in this. Dsp13 (talk) 20:40, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

There's no easy way to do that currently for Wikidata edits on the Dashboard. The 'Article Scoped Program' option allows you to only track edits to specified sets of pages, but it could not handle a set of pages as large as 'all Wikidata items for women'. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:21, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

The problem is that the page seems to include pages of relevance to Africa, as required, but without the additional gender restriction. (I'm not saying there's a problem with the software here, just the articles which have been used to set the scope.) Dsp13 (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

As currently configured, it will track all edits to the tracked wikis that any participants make during the timeframe (without any restrictions based on either geography or gender). Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

thanks for the clarification! Dsp13 (talk) 21:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Dsp13 (talk) for your message. We are aware of how the dashboard tracks other contributions that are not necessarily women. We are ok with that as most of our community are young Wiki editors and are trying to explore their first edits on things they love to write about. We want to be able to track the small edits made by these new comers after the training. We believe that there is a lot we can assess and learn from the dashboard and we want to explore all options to assess our impact at various levels. However for those participating in the contest we will look specifically for contest about women and the team will review all the content to determine that. Thank you so much once again.CoachAni (talk) 17:00, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Can two students work on same the Wikipedia article within the same programme?

My students will work in groups of two to edit one Wikipedia article. Once one student has clicked on the available article, it becomes unavailable for the other to choose it. How can I resolve this? Is there a way to set as settings that this is a group assignment? Violalob (talk) 10:23, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

I have managed to solve this Violalob (talk) 14:24, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

How can I delete a Wikipedia article for one of my students?

Some of my students have chosen two articles, when the assignment consisted of choosing and editing one Wikipedia article. While I know how to add/delete editors, I have not figured out how to delete an article from a specific editor/student. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance for the help! Violalob (talk) 10:07, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Violalob: do you want to remove a page from the dashboard of a person, or actually delete a page from Wikipedia entirely? For the former, can you provide a link to everything involved (program, participant, article). — xaosflux ^Talk 10:46, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for replying! I figured out how to do it in the end. Violalob (talk) 09:26, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Technical problem

Hello, I can't seem to add participants to the current event, is this normal? https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Reseau_apprendre/Bibliothecaire/students/overview Azogbonon (talk) 19:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Are you trying to do this on the dashboard, or in Event Center? What is the event center link? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:46, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

In fact unintentionally the one who advised me did not train me well so the event that should start from January 15 to March 15, the registration page stopped at January 17, 2024 while the event continues so I can not create another event with the same page of Dashbord, which means new people can no longer register on the page. here is the event page:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EventDetails/236 Azogbonon (talk) 20:40, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

• @Geugeor-WMF: can you look at this please? — xaosflux ^Talk 11:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

  Hello, sorry I've just seen your message.

  He's been informed. It was he and I who noticed the error on the registration page and the problem with the dashboard. Azogbonon (talk) 09:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Add a link to the Outreach Dashboard from the user interface in the projects

Hi !

As the Outreach Dashboard is often used for workshops with new contributors, it would be very useful to have a link, somewhere in the user interface on the project (near to the profile page or something), that lead to the Outreach Dashboard. Because he is not easily findable by an external search engine and the URL is quite long. Having and integrated link in the interface would allow the participants to easily reach the dashboard to find the list of proposed articles, the one that have been affected to them and the stats of the projects. It would be a great improvement. M0tty (talk) 06:35, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

You can put the following blue button on the Wiki project page: 2023 Jan-Apr Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 08:49, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

My request is more to allow anybody to access the OD from his interface, even outside a specific workshop. It's not easy for newcomers to recover the OD after a workshop (They can forget the name of the project page where this blue button is for example). I have opened a ticket on Phabricator about that : T356153. Cheers. M0tty (talk) 12:35, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

My contributions got reduced

Am part of the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Open_Foundation_West_Africa/Walewale_Wiki_Hub_2024-2025_(2024-2025)/students/overview

I had over 1000 contributions yestersay but it got reduced this morning.Please help me @Sage (wiki Ed)Christian Yakubu (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

My edits count,uploads and references got reduced on my dashboard.

@Sage (wiki Ed) I am part of the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Open_Foundation_West_Africa/Walewale_Wiki_Hub_2024-2025_(2024-2025)/students/overview

I have more contributions than the edits coumt is given me on all the wiki projects i work on. Please help me @Sage (Wiki Ed) Christian Yakubu (talk) 08:27, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

My edits count,uploads and references got reduced on my dashboard.

am part of the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Open_Foundation_West_Africa/Walewale_Wiki_Hub_2024-2025_(2024-2025)/students/overview

I have more contributions than the edits coumt is given me on all the wiki projects i work on. Please help me @Violalob Christian Yakubu (talk) 15:03, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

That table shows 'recent edits', which is only a count of edits within the last 7 days, so it will go and up and down depending on how many recent edits you've made each time the stats get updated. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

How project admins should use this dashboard

I'm trying to find out information on how this dashboard should be used by administrators of WMF projects.

As I understand it, this dashboard allows editors to sign up as participants in an event so that their contributions are then tracked against the event. I also understand that it allows event co-ordinators to create accounts for participants without hitting the normal local throttle for account creation.

If we see a large number of new users creating items on the similar topics and checkuser then indicates that they are operating from the same IP, then this is often interpreted as being a sock farm, especially if there are other problems with the contributions. The typical response is to block and delete.

How can we determine whether these edits are associated with an event on this dashboard? How can we get in touch with the event co-ordinator? Is there a widget that would support this? Bovlb (talk) 18:35, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

If account creation threshold needs to be offloaded to override the throttle, the account creations are logged on enwiki (due to reasons) under a bot account - that also includes information on the creator. See logs here. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I am still left with a number of questions:

• How do I determine what events are active for a specific WMF project in a specific timeframe?
• How do I determine what events a specific user has created?
• How do I determine whether an editor is associated with an event?
• How do I determine whether a specific edit is associated with an event?

Thanks, Bovlb (talk) 19:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure the best answer to all of those; but you can browse and search the programs here, including listing the editors of each program. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:44, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Right. I'm left with the impression that this interface is designed for the use of event co-ordinators and participants, and it does not support the needs of local project administrators who have to deal with the results of the event. I would love to be able to install a widget that would flag editors and edits associated with an editathon event.

I'm aware of multiple cases where editathon participants have been blanked-banned as sock farms. I'm also aware of many cases where events led to contributions that were problematic (for example, by failing to establish notability), but the editors were unresponsive to feedback so the contributions were later deleted en masse, with significant cost in terms of volunteer time. None of this is what we want to result from organized events.

You might like to read the active thread at wikidata:Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard#All_the_participants_of_an_editathon_blocked. Bovlb (talk) 20:09, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bovlb: All of questions you are asking are possible to answer, but I do not think any of them are easy for a casual user to answer. Two answers: any experienced Wikipedian can answer any one of these questions spending 15-30 minutes per instance of question, or, a project which requires data analysis can pay someone to answer these questions at scale.

The WMF has not sponsored development of tools to routinely answer these questions. Bluerasberry (talk) 20:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

I am using since last year a pseudo-automatic adding of a project-section at the discussion page of the created or modified Wikipedia pages, using a Pywikibot script:

• Example discussion page section
• Outreach project session
• Pywikibot script

Of course, I admit that this could be perfectly automated withing the Programs & Events Dashboard, avoiding any manual intervention... Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 21:09, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Learners unable to enroll in a program & events dashboard-- assist please

I'm helping facilitate/coordinate the program below. Despite having the URL to self-enroll my trainees are unable to do so. Can anyone tell me what we're doing wrong? Program dates are Feb 18 - March 16, 2024.https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Government_Medical_College_Bhavnagar/GMC_Bhavnagar_Wikipedia_Editing_Course_(Spring_2024)?enroll=lrkjyemu AminMDMA (talk) 01:09, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@AminMDMA Have them try using this link. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:13, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Did you get this sorted out? If not, can you provide any more details about what happens when people try to enroll? Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:09, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Articles not updating

I'm seeing a log of edits in the activity tab of our dashboard but the total edits and and items edited on the main page has not changed. I've checked the settings and I'm not sure what's preventing the updates from happening. Any tips? (Tagging @tophkate so that she can follow this thread as well) AbsentMindedData (talk) 20:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

It looks like there was an outage last week in the service that handles the update scheduling (while I was on vacation and not monitoring it). I think I've cleared the queue so that it can start updating again; I'll keep an eye in and try to ensure updates are back on track today. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:07, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating

Hello, it’s been a few days since our dashboard (in french) has stopped updating, for unknown reasons. Would you happen to know how to solve this problem, or have any advice on the matter ? We are graded on the amount of contributions registered on it and the deadline is approaching… Thank you very much in advance. Termitermite (talk) 14:20, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

It looks like there was an outage last week in the service that handles the update scheduling (while I was on vacation and not monitoring it). I think I've cleared the queue so that it can start updating again; I'll keep an eye in and try to ensure updates are back on track today. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:08, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, everything works fine now. Thank you very much for your answer and your intervention, I'm truly grateful ! Termitermite (talk) 12:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

No statistics update

Hi, I would like to request your support to update the dashboard of an event, since the metrics are not updated but the activity appears. Could you help me? Thank you very much. Tania Solá (WMMX) (talk) 17:32, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

It looks like there was an outage last week in the service that handles the update scheduling (while I was on vacation and not monitoring it). I think I've cleared the queue so that it can start updating again; I'll keep an eye in and try to ensure updates are back on track today. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:08, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

It's already working. Thank you so much! Tania Solá (WMMX) (talk) 14:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I can see my progress in the campaign activity

Good day, please I can see my progress in activity session of a campaign contest that I am in https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikitongues/Wiki_Loves_Mother_Tongues_Campaign?enroll=

Please rectify the problem for me so that it will not affect my effort.

Regards 787IYO (talk) 13:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

It should be working now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

No statistics update

Hello -- our dashboard doesn't seem to be updating, and I can't see the link I recall from before where we could prompt an update. Can you please help so that we can see stats that reflect our most recent work? Thanks! Kehauman (talk) 15:16, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

I am seing the same problem here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/UEU/Matematika_eta_Natur_Zientziak_(2024) Theklan (talk) 19:11, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

These should be processed later today. It looks like the problem from last week recurred, and I'm looking into the root cause. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:43, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

dashboard not reflecting edits

The dashboard of our event is tracking editors who join, but not tracking any edits/ citations added (even though it is reflected in the activity tab of the dashboard) Vmcgurrin (talk) 20:04, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

The Dashboard is a couple of days behind on updates but should pull in data over the next several hours, or at least by tomorrow. (The Activity tab pulls directly from mediawiki to your browser, so it can show edits the Dashboard has not processed yet.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:44, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Change in stats

Stats from a project running since 2019.

We have been running a project, Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete, having third year students create or update articles in a similar way since before 2019 and have used the dashboard to keep track of their edits. Have something changed from last year to account for the different numbers when it comes to references and views? Screenshots for the stats in the image are from about the same time after the project ends every year (in red), and the Dashboards can be found at 23/24, 22/23, 21/22, 20/21, 19/20 but should be about the same as I duplicate the previous one every year.

Views crossed out due to earlier response here about pageviews, but it would be great if they could be used now.

/Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 14:20, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Axel. I know that pageviews improvements will be widely appreciated, and I hope to work on it at some point in the next year or two.

For references, we did make some changes recently. In the past, the only data on references that the Dashboard had was from the ORES Article Quality model, which was only available in a handful of languages. We switched to a language-agnostic and more accurate method of counting references added in February 2024. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Small improvements along the way. Great to hear that things are moving and being worked on, and I'll edit the crossed out part up a year as we will look at the stats during a presentation next week. I bet the students will be thrilled about me talking about the number of references and the ORES Article Quality model for about three hours... /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 08:37, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Update 2024 ART+FEMINISIM event dashboard

I'm trying to remove the 2023 A+F campaign link which I added by mistake. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. CatonMA2 (talk) 22:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Solution

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed) , sorry I just saw your message. Yes indeed I know, I had a problem with the dashboard link, but for my concern, I finally found a solution thank you, and sorry for the late reply. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3APrograms_%26_Events_Dashboard#Programs_&_Events_Dashboard_and_The_stopping_of_the_Wikimedia_hashtag_search_for_several_days. Azogbonon (talk) 08:47, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Erros identificados na contagem do Outreach Dashboard

Boa tarde, Sage!

Eu me chamo Danielly, faço parte da equipe do Projeto Mais Teoria da História na Wiki e entro em contato com você por indicação do @Joalpe:, do WMB.

Durante a realização de editatonas em 2023, notamos algumas diferenças entre o computo manual e o registrado no Outreach Dashboard da Editatona Mais Pretas. O Dashboard:

• Não puxou os dois artigos editados pelo MarcalMatheusM (O Exemplo e Antonieta de Barros)
• Não puxou um dos artigos criados pelo Dr.CupinCelulOpagla (David Carr (filósofo))
• Edições que eu fiz no verbete Aderonke Adeola não foram puxadas
• As edições do Lechatjaune e do Arcstur foram computadas parcialmente e não consigo identificar porquê.

Poderia, por favor, verificar o motivo dessa diferença entre o computo manual e o do OD?

Obrigada desde já pela ajuda. Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 11:53, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+): I'm not sure what went wrong previously. Sometimes there is lag in the replica database or disruption in some other part of the infrastructure and edits get missed. I triggered a full updated and it looks like the missing data is there now.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:50, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Olá, @Sage (Wiki Ed): Muito obrigada pela ajuda! Em relação ao Mais Pretas, as questões principais foram resolvidas.

Além disso, gostaria de tirar uma dúvida: quando ativamos a captação das edições do Espaço nominal do utilizador no OD, as edições feitas em páginas de testes, que fazem parte do domínio “Usuário(a)” são registradas? Pergunto isso por dois motivos:

1) existe uma opção de espaço a ser monitorizado que se chama “Rascunho” e desconheço sua funcionalidade; e

2) várias edições que foram feitas em páginas de testes durante os eventos presenciais realizados em 2023 não foram computadas, como as edições do usuário Clubedoleandro, no OD da Editatona do Mais Pretas.

Nos três eventos presenciais que realizamos em 2023, os dados editados em domínio de "Usuário(a)" não foram computados, o que é particularmente importante, tendo em vista que incentivamos esta prática durante a capacitação das pessoas participantes nestes eventos. Você pode conferir aqui: Editatona Mais Pretas, Editatona Mais Povos Originários e Editatona Mais Diversidade.

Obrigada desde já por todos os esclarecimentos e pela riqueza de suas contribuições.

Atenciosamente,Danielly Figueredo (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 15:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

By default, only edits to mainspace count towards the statistics for your event page. The "Draft" namespace is enabled on English Wikipedia and some other languages, but it works very similarly to userspace as a place to keep articles before they are ready to be in mainspace. If you want to count contributions as part of the top-level statistics outside of mainspace, you can add additional tracked namespaces — User-namespace in particuluar — and then any pages edited in that namespace will count towards the stats and also appear in the Articles tab as pages edited.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:03, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

ILAE - Epilepsy Project

See this page, which you will see has not been updated for a year or so. I have recently been taken on as Wikimedian in Residence (I'm User:Johnbod on en:wp) & they are keen to get this running again.

How do we do this? Can we run them ourselves? Only one of the facilitators is still active on the project, User: NandanYardi, who has not done much hands-on editing on Wikimedia. How can we update the page? Do I need to be a facilitator, & how does this happen? Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 16:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I will add you as a facilitator. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:10, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks! Will the answers to my other questions become clear then? Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 16:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, if you log in on the dashboard, you'll be able to edit the dates on that project and then it will start updating again. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

However, I'm not sure whether it will let you extend the dates far enough; we put in restrictions on the maximum time for an event because very long ones have major performance impacts, so setting up a new event page for later work might be a better option. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:25, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok, Ive done that & extended the dates to 2025. It let me do that. Do the stats get run on a monthly schedule or something? When should I expect to see an update, & do the old figures need to be recorded by us for comparisons, or do they remain accessible? Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 16:53, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure how long it will take to update — it depends on how fast the previous updates were, which determines which queue it goes into — but it should be less than a day, and it should update regularly after that, a few times a day usually. It will show data for the entire date range, so you shouldn't need to record anything unless you specifically want data for just the previous period. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! It now says it updated a couple of hours ago, but the numbers don't seem to have changed at all. Some perhaps should be the same, but the article views should have increased a lot - eg "Epilepsy" (en:WP) has had 608 K views in the last 12 months. Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 14:38, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating

Hello, we are running an event today and our dashboard says the next update is a month from today - is it possible to have it update sooner? Thank you! Sfaregs (talk) 18:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

I think that estimate is a glitch based on something unexpected happening... I'm not sure why it got any previous updates since the event had not started yet 17 days ago. It should actually be getting updated about 2 times per day starting today. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Looks like it has updated - thanks! Sfaregs (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard update

[10]https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Government_Medical_College_Bhavnagar/GMC_Bhavnagar_Wikipedia_Editing_Course_(Spring_2024)/home#

Hello, this dashboard is not updating , it shows last updated 3 days ago but I don't think stats are upto date , can you fix it. Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 15:04, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Did it eventually update properly? If not, you can click 'Schedule Data Update' to add it to the queue for a data refresh. I apologize for the poor performance during your course. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:00, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

#EveryBookItsReader Campaign Dashboard

Hi, my apologies, I'm sure I've done something wrong. We have a campaign page that doesn't seem to be updating edits? It's the first day of the campaign. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

[11]https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/everybookitsreader_april_2024/programs

Thanks! Bridges2Information (talk) 21:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi. I apologize for the poor performance during your campaign. Hopefully it all sorted itself out eventually — it looks like it from the link — but if there are still issues you notice, please let me know the details. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Request: Automatic account creation on home wiki?

Dear team,

At Wikimedia Nederland we have been using the account creation option on the outreach dashboard and we think it is great, but at one of our latest events an issue arose because the outreach dashboard automatically creates user accounts on en.wiki via the invitation link. But because this happened via a blocked IP address, a number of participants were immediately blocked by EN moderators. As a result, they could not switch to nl.wiki (or Commons or another platform) because this happened very quickly. And their accounts did not exist when they wanted to log in to nl.wiki.

This issue was solved by creating new accounts on NL Wiki for the participants, but we were wondering if it is or would be possible to facilitate automatic account creation on the indicated home wiki instead of EN Wiki by default? Thanks! MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 09:30, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

This is an issue I'm aware of, and I expect to fix it at some point. Thanks! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:58, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @User:Sage (Wiki Ed)|Sage (Wiki Ed)]] I was wondering if you have an update w.r.t. to this issue or is there maybe a tasks or something I can follow to keep updated? Thank you so much! MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 10:10, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

The dahsboard shows no metrics

Hello. We created this dashboard to track an editing campaign, but it does not show any metrics, although it seems that the articles has been tracked. Could you please help us? Thank you. Isabel (Wikiesfera) (talk) 13:36, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

It looks like this eventually started showing metrics. If there are still problems, let me know the details and I will look into it. I apologize for the poor dashboard performance during your campaign. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Cannot clone a previous program

Hello! I’m new to the dashboard and I have an instance of a monthly workshop to organize. Consequently, I’m trying to create a new program by cloning this one I participated in, last month workshop. Or any other of these workshops I subscribed.

When clicking "Clone this program" as per Using the Dashboard course, I obtain a white on red error popup (in French): "Une erreur est survenue : Unauthorized". I can’t find any doc on particular restrictions on program creation which could explain it. Nivopol (talk) 08:48, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I see the bug. The system currently only allows a user to clone a course if they are one of the facilitators for it (or an admin). That's the intended behavior for Wiki Education Dashboard, but I should change that on Programs & Events Dashboard. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:07, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Refresh the dashboard

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Government_Medical_College_Bhavnagar/GMC_Bhavnagar_Wikipedia_Editing_Course_(Spring_2024)/articles/edited? Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 12:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for the delayed updates. If there are any remaining data problems, please let me know. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Refresh back

refresh it back , the above dashboard Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 10:13, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating stats

Hi! We are currently running the #EveryBookIts Reader campaign in Portuguese and it seems like the Dashboard here is having trouble updating the editing count. We know for sure that people were editing on Saturday (we had 15 simultaneous edit-a-thons in Brazil!) and it was only counting the number of editors. Can you please help? Thanks! EAzzellini (WMB) (talk) 19:49, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for the delayed updates. Hopefully it eventually updated as expected; if there are any remaining data problems, please let me know. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Refresh the stats

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Government_Medical_College_Bhavnagar/GMC_Bhavnagar_Wikipedia_Editing_Course_(Spring_2024)/articles/edited Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 09:30, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Internal server error?

I've tried a few times today to create a program (tested independent programs and programs as part of a campaign, several browsers...) but am getting an "internal server error. Any insights? E mln e (talk) 19:45, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I suspect that the system was overloaded and the database was not available when you tried to do this. I apologize for the service disruption. We're working on making it more reliable. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:12, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating stats

Hello, my dashboard is not updating the stats. For instance, edits and an an article created yesterday were not counted by the dashboard. Also, all articles created from January 2024 until now no longer appear in the dashboard's list of articles. Can you help with this issue and clarify what's going on? As a Wikimedian in Residence, these stats are crucial to my day-to-day work. Thanks, MichaelaBlanc (talk) 14:10, 17 April 2024 (UTC)  

Dashboard update issues

Hi, our dashboard has allegedly had several statistics updates in the last 24 hours. However, the statistics have not increased despite many edits showing up in activity. A few users have also noted that their edits don't seem to be showing up at all in the "activity" tab (not all users). Fuchsiaflute (talk) 16:12, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard update issues

Hello,

We see the activity on our dashboard for our edit-a-thon today, but no stats are posted and it says the next update will be in 2 months. Can you help with this issue? We need our stats to demonstrate impact.

[12]https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Nebraska_Lincoln/Notable_Nebraskans_Edit-a-thon_(April_2024)/home# Mrellihan80 (talk) 01:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Outreachdashboard not available today

Serious availability problems today with the wmfdashboard: ... several edit-a-thons are possibly running? We have an important writing session from 16:00-18:00 UTC this evening... please do the necessary... Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 11:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm able to log on, what happens when you try? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:17, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

We get the following errors for https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org:

This website is under heavy load (queue full)

We're sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We're working on this problem. Please try again later.

Wikimedia Cloud Services Error

This web service cannot be reached. Please contact a maintainer of this project.

Maintainers can find troubleshooting instructions from our documentation on Wikitech. Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 13:38, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ragesoss: FYI. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

We are expecting this evening 50-100 new participants to coach during a live edit-a-thon... at several locations. Sorry to insist! We should not disappoint new Wikipedia contributors. Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 13:55, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

The system is still not available. The organisers were embarrassed, and the participants were really disappointed that the registration system did not work properly. So we have no possibility to keep track of the user contributions, unless we can add the usernames manually in the coming days. Is there a capacity problem in the system, or a performance problem under huge user load? Please investigate and fix. As a Wikipedia trainer I am using the system several times per week. I rely on it. Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 19:37, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard statistics are not updated due to errors

We had a writing session 3 days ago with 62 participants, and the edit statistics are still not updated. All counters are zero. When I click on "See more", I read "The dashboard encountered 35 error(s) during the most recent update". What happens? What could possibly go wrong? Could you please investigate and fix? Currently an error message is showing:

Unexpected token '<', "<!doctype "... is not valid JSON Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 19:40, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Another example of failing statistics. Recent edits remain zero. Errors reported via "See more"... Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 19:03, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Problem seems to be solved. Or did it just disappear? I think that the wmfdashboard: might be lacking some stability?--Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) 08:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard statistics are not updated due to errors

Could you please investigate and fix? Hussein m mmbaga (talk) 19:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for the service disruption. If you notice any statistics that are still not updating, let me know which event page it is happening for, and I will investigate. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:57, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Can't Clone a program anymore

When I attempt to Clone a program, I get the following error -- for any possible program:

422 — unprocessable entity. :-(
Something went wrong. Please contact the maintainers of this dashboard to let them know about the problem.

Please confirm, or create a phab: ticket. --Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) 08:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Which program were you attempting to clone? Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

User account renaming breaks tracking of user contributions

A participant renamed ones user account after subscribing to an event on Meta. The wmfdashboard: does not track the user account name change, so contribution statistics are not synchronised any more for this user. As an organizer I can't enforce the user list synchronisation between both platforms, nor can I add or revoke participants after the session took place... When I try to update the participants list from the dashboard I get the following error:

Enrollment in this event is controlled by Wikimedia Event Center. It cannot be joined from the Dashboard.

Please make user user account name changes are properly tracked on the Dashboard. --Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) 08:40, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply... if a user has changed their username, the Dashboard will automatically update their username the next time they go through the OAuth login process, and you can also immediately trigger a username update by entering the new username here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/update_username Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Site down ?

Hello,

Since yesterday, I have been getting error messages while trying to access the Outreach Dashboard website, and also while trying to enter usual edits. Is there anything not working normally on the website ? Flor WMCH (talk) 09:01, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Program Page not available

Wikipedia Nurses in Red (outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org) is not loading so I can't access our stats ahead of our next group meeting. No error message, just not loading for me or other members of the group 101TAD (talk) 12:15, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

this page is loading for me, what happens when you try? — xaosflux ^Talk 18:08, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

No updates since dashboard created

I team, I hope you're well, just to let you know that there are still no updates on my dashboard since I created it, more than 17 days ago.

Wouldn't it be possible to integrate a button allowing the user to update his dashboard alone like on Event metric?? instead of waiting for automatic updates that take too long. VALENTIN NVJ (talk) 20:14, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I apologize for the service disruption. Wikidata updates were completely broken when the revision IDs passed 2.14 billion, because the numbers became too large for the database format the Dashboard was using to store them. (This happened while I was on vacation, and it took longer than I would have liked to fix the problem.) We are working on some changes to make updates more reliable, and once those are complete, I hope we can re-enable a feature to allow users to request an immediate update for their events when the automatic updates are taking too long. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:54, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I cant access information on my Event dashboard

Hello team! please, I cant get information from this dashboard since yesterday. I don't the reasons behind it.

Thanks Onwuka Glory (talk) 20:01, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Hopefully this was a temporary problem, but if you still cannot access it, please let me know more details and I will investigate. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:50, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

JuevesWiki

Hello team. On Wikimedia México we have a campaign, #JuevesWiki, in which we invite our community to edit Wikipedia or the sisters projects every thursday. The dashboard on the last #JuevesWiki doesnt's reflect the contributions of the editors. What would be the trouble? Thanks. Luisalvaz (talk) 05:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for the service disruption. Hopefully it's working properly now and shows all the contributions you wanted to track. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:49, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Assessment tools not working, we miss it

Hello, We are teaching with the dashboard and really missing being able to use the assessment tool. The program is https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/G%C3%B6teborgs_universitet/Prevention_and_Audiology_(2024-05-29)/articles/edited Hoping it can be fixed soon and thanks for everything TMorata (talk) 11:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for the service disruption. We're working on significant architecture changes to make it more reliable in the long term. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:48, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Article not found

Yesterday, on the official Museum Day, I published an article about a museum and created a Wikidata object for it: Fondation Ateliers d'artiste in de:wiki. Unfortunately, I can't assign the article to myself on the Article finder page. Can someone explain why this is not possible or even better: assign the article to me. Thank you. Matutinho (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I think this was because the Dashboard event was not configured to track de.wiki, so de.wiki is not an option to search via Article Finder. The facilitator would need to add de.wiki as a tracked wiki in order to count your work on that article. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating stats

Hello, I am a Wikimedian in Residence at the Perez Art Museum Miami, and I want to report that my stats are not updating correctly. Last week's update caused my dashboard to lose critical numbers, and I really hope this can be fixed. I have screenshots from last Wednesday, and the numbers look a lot different today. Would it be possible to receive an update on this matter? Thank you. MichaelaBlanc (talk) 22:21, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Updates were recently broken for all events that tracked Wikidata, and the updates I made to fix this issue added a few unintended temporary problems — in particular, the Articles Edited lists for courses went blank, while the system re-importing part of its database. It looks like your event is working normally again. If there's still a problem with the stats, please let me know the details and I will look into it. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed), Thanks for your response and for expanding on the issue. I'm glad the Dashboard is up and running again. However, it still does not show the same stats as before. I have a screenshot from May 15, 2024, in which the Dashboard gathers 2003 articles created, 739 articles edited, 5.68K total edits, 472K words added, 2.61K references added, and 7.26 million views. As you can see, these are very different numbers from what is showing up now – which do not simulate the reality of my work. Thanks, and I am waiting for your solution. MichaelaBlanc (talk) 16:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)  

Thanks! I scheduled it for a full update recently, and it looks like it's working properly now to capture all your edits. (I assume "2003" was a typo; it currently shows 216 articles created, but the other numbers are consistent with your screenshot. It's normal for pageviews to sometimes decrease, as they are just estimates based 30-day average views.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating my Edits

hello, i noticed my recent edits counts are not increasing on dashboard as i work on them. please is it from my end or it's general? Special:Contributions/ 23:09, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

This was a general problem recently. It should be fixed in most cases now. If your page is still not showing edits as expected, please provide as many details as you can, and I will look into it.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:43, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Events Center?

How does this lovely dashboard relate to the idea of an integrated Event Center? Would it be part of that / integrated into it / crossregister events with it? –SJ talk  17:38, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

It's already integrated into Event Center to some extent; an event organizer can create an event on the Dashboard, and then when setting up the event on Event Center, add the Dashboard URL and link them. When linked, users register for the event through Event Center, and they are automatically added to the Dashboard event. Ragesoss (talk) 17:37, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Sage: Aha, cool :) What script does the automatic dashboard-adding? Can other hooks be added to the event-registration update? –SJ talk  23:14, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with the codebase of the CampaignEvents extension, but it looks like this is the main code for it on the MediaWiki side: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/CampaignEvents/+/refs/heads/master/src/TrackingTool/Tool/WikiEduDashboard.php

The 'TrackingTool' directory has a whole framework for communicating with other tools, so I'm guessing it should be pretty extensible. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:56, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

The field when

If you empty the “when” field, this will not be saved and will result in an error "This field has invalid characters". knowing that I don't want to make this modification because it impacts the event title which in turn causes a change to the event link I want to add in my event tool Dezedien (talk) 10:00, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I will file an issue for this. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:56, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

some namespaces are not available on tracked namespaces

Some namespaces https://kn.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&formatversion=2 doesn't appear in tracked namespace for example on https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Mangalore_University/Kannada_Wikisource_Knowledge_Sharing_workshop_(24_Friday_2024)

below namespace doesn't showup on

"104": {
                "id": 104,
                "case": "first-letter",
                "name": "ಪುಟ",
                "subpages": true,
                "canonical": "Page",
                "content": true,
                "nonincludable": false
            },

~aanzx ^✉ _© 06:29, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed) can you please look into this. ~aanzx ^✉ _© 06:48, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

I have another dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Kannada_Wikisource/Kannada_Wikisource_internship?enroll=scntkleh that needs data from page namespace. ~aanzx ^✉ _© 06:50, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

I've just deployed an update; you should be able to track the Page namespace now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:38, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you ~aanzx ^✉ _© 08:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Line breaks in event description

Hello team! I'm a librarian at Gutman Library (Harvard Graduate School of Education), where we are organizing a small upcoming edit-a-thon. I am trying to add info to the event description (the free text field) in the dashboard. When I am in edit mode, the line breaks appear as expected, but after I save, the line breaks are not in effect and lines run together. (The line breaks are, however, in effect if I add an additional blank line.) This is minor, perhaps, but it makes it difficult to add a lot of short phrases for logistical information (e.g., date, time, place) without having to add white space between each phrase. Thank you, Teyilee (talk) 21:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I solved the problem by turning lines of text into bulleted lists. Teyilee (talk) 17:38, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Coordinate Me contest - Australia dashboard

In May the Coordinate Me contest on Wikidata was held, utilizing the Programs & Events Dashboards especially for the author statistics we use for the final count. There were 16 country specific boards. One of them, for Australia https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/Coordinate_Me_2024_AUS_(2024) , seems to be to large for an evaluation (message: Updates for this program or event have been taking too long and are currently paused. If you need updated data soon, please use the 'Report a problem' link to let us know.).

Is it possible to start an update manually or with a workaround? The PSID used ( https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=26969288 ) checks for any item located (P625) in Australia. I could instead make separate PSIDs for the states and territories (may be a bit tricky, not to miss any of the areas, and would not reflect items that are only P625 of the whole country). Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 13:37, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

I manually disabled updates for this event, because it was failing and causing system instability. I don't think it's directly a matter of too many titles in the PSID in one entry, although it may be related to the total number of titles in the context of such a large edit count (more than 280 thousand!); the current architecture makes database queries for events like this a resource bottleneck. I'm currently working on a major change to how we process updates, which will let us avoid that bottleneck and resume updates, but until that is ready I don't think the system can handle this particular event. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:08, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Internal server error

It's has been a while now, when I want to create a new program In a Program & Event dashboard I didn't I used to meet this error instead, i do not what is wrong? Any help please! Anuary Rajabu (talk) 23:13, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Is this error still happening? If so, can you provide more details about the steps you took to reach it? Thanks! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard update issues

Hi Team, I participated in the A+F edit-a-thon last weekend and the article I created at the beginning are not updating in the dashboard now, any idea what could be wrong? Thanks. JM99 (talk) 03:30, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what was wrong — it may have just been a temporary data issue — but it looks like it is working now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:41, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard update issues

Hey! I noticed our event is not updating, it hasn't updated for two days. Is this a problem through Wikipedia? CodyeditsHU (talk) 17:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Updates were down over the weekend, but I've restarted them, and the system should get caught up by tomorrow. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:36, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

It is down again, and wasn't updating all day. Is there more problems? CodyeditsHU (talk) 21:48, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I'm investigating it now. Sorry for the service interruption! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Updates were still going on, and I've brought the web service back up as well. It looks like it's still working through the backlog from the weekend. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:58, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard issues

Hi Team, Created a program not able view. If create again appears already exists message Babitha Shetty (talk) 17:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

It sounds like there already exists a program with the same combination of title, institution and 'when'. Those are the components that create the URL for it, and each program must have a unique URL. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard update problems

Hello, The dashboard is not updated, what should I do to remedy the situation. Kitanago (talk) 23:21, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Sage (Wiki Ed) ! can you help me please ? Kitanago (talk) 11:11, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry about the slow updates. It appears to be working now. (We're in the middle of a project that should make updates much more reliable.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:55, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard Wikiproyecto Circo

Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed), I created this dashboard but is not updated. Please, can you help me?. Do I have to wait because they are programmes from past years? or... ?? Thanks. BTW, I like your session in Wikimania 2024 ;-) Lalviarez (talk) 09:55, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

It looks like they've all updated. I'm glad you liked the session! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 11:30, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed) Thanks for your help. I have checked the dashboard and it has been updated but not 100%. Please could you help me to understand this situation?.

I share examples to check it:

1. This is the program (2) and these are the articles created during this activity (4).

2. Program (2) - Articles Created (7)

3. Program (6) - Articles created (8)

4. Program (3) - Articles created (5)

Thanks in advance for your help and advisory. Best, Lalviarez (talk) 13:41, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what was going wrong. I scheduled each of these for a fresh update (using the 'Schedule Data Update' button from the Home tab of each), and now the numbers are closer to what you expected. I looked at the first one, which now shows 3 out of 4 created articles. The fourth was created by user PatriHorrillo, but that username is not on the editors list. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:01, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your help @Sage (Wiki Ed)!!! Lalviarez (talk) 11:11, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Tracking renamed articles

Hello - a group I've been working with for a while now have noticed on their Dashboard that their stats of Article Views had gone down (it had been above 8 million when they took a screengrab about a month or so ago but was below this when they next checked). Another Wikimedian has suggested this might have been due to articles being moved to new names and tracking not taking account of this. Do you think this is the likely reason? And is there a way to remedy this so that views on an older name of a page are still counted please? Thanks in advance for any advice! Zeromonk (talk) 10:22, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi! The pageviews are not exact; they are based on an estimate taken from a 30-day average of pageviews for each article. The Dashboard periodically updates that average (with the latest 30 days), so view counts can go down if the new average is significantly lower than a previous one. As you suspected, page moves are another possible reason for major drops in the pageview numbers; the Dashboard does not have a way to handle that situation when it comes to view counts. (An improved system for pageviews is on our roadmap, but we have not begun work on it yet.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:04, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Copied program from old server, but am not listed as an instructor on the course

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T373221

Hi all, I'm a TA for a class this semester and I copied the old server (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Pratt_Institute/INFO-661_Art_Documentation?enroll=xicvwosk) to a new one (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Pratt_Institute/INFO-661_Art_Documentation_(FA24)/home). However, I cannot Join the Program despite having created it as it asks for a code to join. I'm also not listed as the facilitator. Any idea on how I can correct this? Npzak (talk) 19:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

@Npzak see if you can enroll now using this link. I added this to the misc campaign. What is your affiliation with Pratt? — xaosflux ^Talk 22:35, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

It worked! Thank you so so much. How do I become a facilitator? Or alternatively, what link I should use to invite and admit them? I need to be able to let students in the class join the dashboard.

I'm a graduate student, and help lead this class. Npzak (talk) 22:54, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

@Npzak I added you as facilitator, the same link you used to join can be used for others to join. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:57, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your help yesterday. When I went to access the page today, I'm getting an error message that reads:

Error

This web service cannot be reached. Please contact a maintainer of this project.

Maintainers can find troubleshooting instructions from our documentation on Wikitech.

Is this a server issue or something else? Npzak (talk) 15:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

• Seems to be down again, phab:T373221 opened. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:30, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Ocupa Cáceres not updating

An update was expected like 5 days ago and nothing is appearing.

Can anyone help to fix that? Thank you. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Movimento_Brasil/Wiki_Ocupa_C%C3%A1ceres/home# AugustoResende (talk) 21:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

The system is unstuck now, and has received updates. (We are working on a major improvement to update reliability, which I hope to deploy before the end of 2024.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:05, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

1Editor1Reference WMAE Not Updating

Hello,

The campaign page that I have set-up has not been updating. Could you look into this problem?

Many thanks in advance. Serine (WMUAE) (talk) 14:26, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Updates were stuck earlier this week, but are working currently. I apologize for the delayed data. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:07, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Edit my campaign Wiki Loves Onam 2024

I cannot edit tracked wikis. I need commons.wikimedia.org, ml.wikipedia.org and wikidata.org in my campaign https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Kerala/Wiki_Loves_Onam_2024 but it is not working. It said There was an error: You are not permitted to do that. How to fix it. Ranjithsiji (talk) 09:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I think this is a bug related to your account being both a student and facilitator. I will create an issue for the bug. You can work around it by removing yourself as an editor, making the required changes, then adding yourself again as an editor. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Contributions missing from dashboard

Hello! I noticed that the edits from one of the editors being tracked on our dashboard are not appearing. The editor in question is https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Editoras_Lx/Wiki_Editoras_Lx_2024_-_Geral_(2024)/students/articles/AfroMina and as an example, they have edited this article in july during one of our events, and the edits are not being tracked on the dashboard. Thank you for your support. Anita Braga (talk) 16:52, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

I've scheduled it for a full, which in most cases will fix things like this. I'll check back tomorrow to verify. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating statistics

Hello!

I have noticed an unusual problem with the statistic update of a dashboard I am currently using to track the editor's contribution. This problem is that it's been three days today and the dashboard didn't update the records. Please look into that and help me resolve the update issues so I can fully track editor's contributions. The link to the dashboard is Wikipedia Training For Taraba Wikimedians.

Looking forward to your prompt assistance as the edit-a-thon ends today.

Thank you. Yahuzaishat (talk) 15:10, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Sage (Wiki Ed), please help us resolve this issue here.

Thank you. Yahuzaishat (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm working on getting the updates caught up. It should get an update within a day or two. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:39, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

API

Is there an API for the dashboard itself? 146.232.65.113 11:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

There are JSON endpoints for much of the Dashboard's data, but they haven't been collected into a documented API for external users. If there's something specific you're interested in getting via JSON, let me know and I can point you to the endpoint if it exists. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:37, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Project URL not functional.

Hello! I am trying to set up a wikipedia project to track my students' efforts, but my project URL link does not seem to be functional. Any tips? Mgnielson (talk) 12:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I can't find your project URL to see what might be wrong. One reason links may not work is if the page is set to 'Private'; in that case, the page will not load for any user who is not already enrolled, so you cannot use an invitation link to allow students to join it. (In Private mode, the organizer must enter the usernames of participants.) Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:55, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Ah, brilliant! I'm hoping this will do the trick. Thank you! 144.173.255.201 09:39, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Request for column on # of page views since article was edited

If a page is edited by a participant during an event, it would be helpful to be able to see how many times the page has been viewed since then. Would it be possible to request this column as a new feature? At Wikiconference North America another person brought up the same question. I know it's possible to get this information using the Pageviews tool, but it's time-consuming to do this at scale for articles that were updated on different dates. Clayoquot (talk) 02:27, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Data not getting updated

Data not getting updated after the first update. Currently Edit-a-thon is running. Immediate support is much appreciated. - M. Selvasivagurunathan (talk) 05:30, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed) sorry to ping you, but I'm having the same problem with my project. An update was expected 15 days ago, and still nothing. It seems that there are no problems other than the Dashboard not updating the data. Can it be please sped it up? Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 16:20, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard update frequency

Hello - we are a running an edit-a-thon event today and the dashboard has updated once and says the next scheduled update is in 29 days, is it possible to have it update sooner? Thanks in advance Sfaregs (talk) 17:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

No items found despite correctly running PetScan

In our campaign [13] there is one PSID not loading the items despite when opened directly in PetScan [14] everything is fine. GPSLeo (talk) 08:16, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Deleting entries

Some entries, created specifically for the project, are in the process of being deleted, I'm throwing in the towel! Here is the discussion in the kitchen project: [15]. Bye OppidumNissenae (talk) 12:17, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

BaSesotho 200 Years Project Workshop

Good day Our dashboard has been down and the last update was 2 days ago. Someone please assist! [16]https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home Pereng051 (talk) 14:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Invalid language/project

I want to start a program in the dashboard but when I press the create button it shows me the project is invalid any help MohammedBama123 (talk) 07:11, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Which language/project? Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Commons (failure to report important work)

Not a problem. But rather a failure of the dashboard to record important work. I do an enormous amount of work in Commons: creating categories, linking them to wikidata, adding structured data to the source file metadata and so on. I believe these kinds of activity should be reported on a dashboard. MargaretRDonald (talk) 21:02, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard down

Good day

Please assist,our dash was last updated 6 days ago.

Thank you

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home 41.113.10.63 06:21, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

No updates in the last 2 days

Hello! The course at Hizkuntzaren eta ondarearen teknologiak eta geoposizionamendua hasn't been updated in two days. There may be an error. Theklan (talk) 16:05, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed): Are all updates down? -Theklan (talk) 08:17, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

They were partially down for several days, and the backlog is being processed now. I'm hopeful it will be caught up soon. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:06, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

It did! Thanks! Theklan (talk) 19:04, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Blocked by wikimedia common

Good day everyone, I intend to complete my tasks on wikimedia common and I found it difficult to login and a text uploaded on the page that I have been blocked. How do I go about it, so that I should be able to complete my tasks. Abuhabel (talk) 10:50, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

ASSISTANCE WITH DASHBOARD

Good day Our dashboard was last updated six days ago; could someone please assist me with it? Thanks.

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024) KeMang?? (talk) 13:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

The update queue was stuck; I've restarted it, and this is now updated. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:37, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard Updates

Our dashboard needs update six days ago, please we need assistance regarding that. Thank you https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Black_Lunch_Table_Wikimedians/Nuchee_Ba%C5%8Bsim_(December_-January) Ruky Wunpini (talk) 06:57, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

The update queue was stuck; I've restarted it, and this is now updated. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:06, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard Updates

We are currently facing an issue with our dashboard, which is not updating as expected. Despite regular checks and attempts to troubleshoot, the data displayed remains outdated, and we are unable to identify the root cause of the problem. Please we need assistance. link: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_RDC/Wikipermanance_2024-2025_Bukavu/home ErnestKM (talk) 14:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

The update queue was stuck; I've restarted it, and this is now updated. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard Updates

We are currently facing an issue with our dashboard, which is not updating as we expected. Despite regular checks and attempts to troubleshoot, the data displayed remains outdated, and we are unable to identify the root cause of the problem. Please we need assistance. Here is our Dashboard link: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_Kilimanjaro/There_Is_an_Error,_Fix_and_Contribute Justine Msechu (talk) 12:15, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Is there still something that isn't working as expected, or did it fix itself? It seems to be updated normally, at least recently. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Problem in a new dashboard

I created a new dashboard last week and it looks it's not updating. I've set subcategory depth = 3 for all entries but they are shown as 0. See yourself: [17]. Cheers, Jjanhone (talk) 06:35, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Ah! This uncovered a bug with the PagePile feature. I'll work on fixing it so that your event can update. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:06, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

I think I've worked around the bug and it updated without error, but it hasn't picked up any edits for your event yet. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:10, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! It has picked one edit now: Milla Vaahtera, [18]. It didn't pick e.g. two updates for Finnish authors which are shown here. I had added the category author, but as the depth = 0 and there are two steps to Finnish authors from authors, they were not included. Is it possible to add the depth to 3 like we had last year? Jjanhone (talk) 10:19, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Same here, when I set subcategory depth to 3 it shows 0. Nat (WDU) (talk) 13:40, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Tableau de bord ne se met pas à jour

Bonjour. J'ai créé un tableau de bord pour le SCD d'Aix-Marseille pour la campagne #1lib1ref de janvier-février 2025. Malgré des interventions hier (modifications, ajouts de références...), le tableau de bord n'indique aucune statistique. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/SCD_Aix-Marseille/Campagne_Wikip%C3%A9dia_2025_1_(15_Janvier-_5_F%C3%A9vrier_2025) Merci d'avance pour votre aide. NatSGrTB (talk) 08:46, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@NatSGrTB sur la page d'accueil de ton dashboard, il n'y a que en.wikipedia.org d'indiqué, il ne cherche donc les modifs que là bas alors que vous les avez faites sur fr.wikipedia.org, il faut donc faire un changement de ce côté là (il y a ensuite un délai pour la mise à jour, que je trouve un peu long cette année c'est pour cela que j'ai atterri ici car je me demandais si c'était que nous car notre tableau de bord ne bouge pas comme j'aurais attendu mais j'imagine qu'il faut être patient. Symac (talk) 17:50, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Merci !!! :) Ce n'est pourtant pas la première campagne que je mets en place...^^ On avait remarqué déjà l'année dernière la lenteur des mises à jour. A suivre... Bonne campagne ! NatSGrTB (talk) 15:13, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Tableau de bord et problème de mise à jour

Bonjour ! Itou je vois que notre tableau de bord a cessé de se mettre à jour quasiment après le démarrage du programme : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/uB_et_UFC/1Lib1Ref_UBFC_2025_session01_JanvierF%C3%A9vrier

De votre côté ça perdure ou c'est réglé ? Merci d'avance pour toute info ! Tameli (talk) 16:07, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Je confirme le même problème de notre côté. @Sage (Wiki Ed) there seems to be some issues with the queue of updates, could you have a look at it? Thanks. Symac (talk) 04:48, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

«Editatón Manolo Summers 20250118» doesn't update statistics

Hi:

I'm not sure if it is because I set something wrong but I can't have statistics for this course :-m Could you check it, please? Thanks in advance. —Ismael Olea (talk) 10:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

We also have issues with updates on our campaign as can be seen above, i assume something is not running correctly on the server, we need to wait for it to be fixed. Symac (talk) 15:30, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks :) —Ismael Olea (talk) 15:40, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

1Bib1Ref - 1Lib1Ref Canada 2025 dashboard

Hi,

The Wikimedia Canada 1lib1ref dashboard hasn't updated in several days. I see that there are a few other people having the same issue so just leaving this comment for posterity and hoping that the issue will be fixed soon :) Thank you! Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk) 18:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

The system was stalled for several days while I was traveling, but I've reset it and it should be catching up soon. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:34, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much @Sage (Wiki Ed)! - Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard very slow

Hi, I am experiencing difficulties to work with the Dashboard space. The students linked to this space are unable to do their work. This issue has persisted for several days/weeks. The problem is it expected to be resolved soon? The semester is already underway, and I am concerned about the impact on my class progress. Thank you so much for considering this issus. Orlane Dinas (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

ASSISTANCE WITH DASHBOARD

Good day

On January 31, 2025, our translation and editing workshop will come to an end. We have been having trouble with the dashboard because it takes days for it to refresh and show us the most recent statistics. Please help, as once we are finished, we will need to submit a report.

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home#

Regards Ntjalekesi (talk) 08:30, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard still documenting without reason

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/WMCH/Perforormance_Art_Edit-a-thon_Ticino_2024/home Helga Broll (talk) 15:33, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard Update

Good day

Today is the last day of our project; could you please help with updating of the dashboard?⁣

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home

We will greatly appreciate your help. ⁣ KeMang?? (talk) 07:15, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Is the dashboard down?

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T385477

I can't access the dashboard: page never finishes loading in different browsers, in computer and phone. Help appreciated! Nat (WDU) (talk) 12:59, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, phab:T385477 opened on this outage. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:53, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Subscribed to the ticket, thanks a lot! Nat (WDU) (talk) 13:55, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard s*cks!! KeMang?? (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard down

Good day

We have concluded our project; could you please help with update the dashboard?⁣

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home

We will greatly appreciate your help. ⁣ KeMang?? (talk) 14:44, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

• The dashboard site is now loading again. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:19, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

  No, nothing is still happening eight days later!⁣ KeMang?? (talk) 16:15, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard update

Hi, I think this dashboard was not updated. Is it possible to support me to see the metrics? Thank you very much.

Tania Solá (WMMX) (talk) 21:11, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

End of the event and dashboard update

@Sage (Wiki Ed) It seems that updates are not functionning, could you please have a look at it? The event 1Lib1Ref is finishing today, we are about to conclude our project by the end of the afternoon... Thand you in advance ! Tameli (talk) 10:37, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

1Lib1Ref standings in Indonesia January 2025

The standings have not been updated for two days. Please update so that participants know who is in the top three. Rizki Hidayatulloh (talk) 20:06, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Test page tour doesn´t work

When I click on https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikipedia-editieren/editieren-basiswissen/versuche-es at the button "Starte die Tour...", the tour cannot be completed because the following blue button has no function (no reaction after click):

Tested with Firefox on Windows 11 arm. Durin12 (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2025 (UTC) Update: Bug also occurs on https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikipedia-editieren/diskutieren-basiswissen/diskutieren-tour-01

Dashboard not capturing articles

Hello!

I started the I edit setswana Wikipedia Campaign last week Wednesday but there is nothing captured in the dashboard. What might be the cause of this? Kolobetsoo (talk) 10:35, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Is still not capturing what you expected? I see that the event successfully updated 5 days ago (and should update again this week), but if there's something specific that's missing, let me know and I will investigate. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:49, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not capturing edits

We have been making edits to the Campaign called "theground" and like others, we're not seeing any of this work reflected in the dashboard. Any ideas about why? Machadorobert (talk) 18:12, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Tracking problem editors back to an event

Is there any way to find out what events are running on a specific date? At Wikidata right now we're seeing a lot of new editors creating items related to Nigeria, but the editors don't appear to have received any training in notability or other policies and guidelines, so we're probably going to have to delete pretty much all of it. I'd like to be able to get in touch with the organizers. Bovlb (talk) 17:52, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bovlb I'm assuming you know a username. Try putting it in this link to see what events they are in: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/users/Bovlb (replace your name with theirs) — xaosflux ^Talk 18:24, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. That's super helpful. Many of the users are not registered, and many are anon, but I found two from this event. The facilitators seem to be @Jerry minor and @Iwuala Lucy. Bovlb (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Back to your original question, you can browse all the events on the dashboard but many are "open" for long periods of time and overlap with each other - so that might not help much with what you wanted to ultimately accomplish. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

The event continues to have activity. Both facilitators and 16 problem contributors have been contacted, but none have responded. Two of the contributors have now been blocked, and it looks like we'll be starting on mass deletions shortly.

On a related note, this RFC might be of interest as it proposes a way to fix this type of problem. Bovlb (talk) 21:19, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bovlb sorry to hear that, are the facilitators active on-wiki? Did you try them by email? — xaosflux ^Talk 23:29, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

It looks like only one of them (@Iwuala_Lucy) has been active on any project. Is it normal for facilitators to be inactive during events?

I have not emailed. We generally discourage email on-project and expect people to respond to pings and user talk messages. I've noticed that people on meta, including WMF staff, are very bad at responding, in some cases talking months to reply or simply disappearing from the project. Do you think I should be sending emails to tell people they have messages awaiting their attention? That should not be normal practice. Do you think that blocking the facilitators on the project would be enough to get their attention? Bovlb (talk) 00:07, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

If they are on-wiki contributions, a talk message on the project where the contributions are happening should be enough. Blocking likely won't get their attention if they are not on-wiki. I suspected they weren't onwiki, that's why I suggested dropping them an email - even if it is just something like "We think there is a problem related to your event, see your talk page here: xxxx". 00:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC) — xaosflux ^Talk 00:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. I don't really think it's acceptable behaviour to organize an event that causes problems and then fail to respond to pings and messages, but I have emailed them as you suggested.

On another note, do you know if there is any procedure for requesting that users lose facilitator privileges on the events dashboard? Bovlb (talk) 01:24, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Bovlb hopping in here to clarify. Contrary to the thought of not responding to notifications, you will notice that not much has happened from my and I had to squeeze out time to respond to this as I receive the email. Yes, there is a project ongoing of which I am to co-facilitate - I have not commenced on my role. I have reached out to @Jerry minor who will be in a more better position to respond to this enquiries. Iwuala Lucy (talk) 04:38, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Bovlb the articles were created from an off wiki interaction with some students from my academic class. I am surprised to see that most of them are doing the wrong thing. I have asked them to stop creating items while I meet up for a follow-up session. Thanks.Jerry minor (talk) 06:30, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating

Hello. Some of the tabs of the dashboard aren't updating. Here is the link to my event dashboard: Work Experience for High School Students If it wasn't for the Activity tab clearly showing activity, then I'd be worried that my participants weren't doing anything at all! It seems to be the Home, Editors, and Upload tabs that are affected (my participants weren't editing, so Articles may also be affected). Clicking on the profile link for an editor also fails to show any onward links to contributions, even though I can see that contributions have been made. Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. Drkirstyross (talk) 11:47, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Having the same issue in mine [[19]]. The grey text appears to imply that our event refreshes every 40 minutes, but it looks like it took one whole day to update with someone above. Any idea why that is?

Deletions and reversions

I see that the tool reports counts of article creations and edits. Do these include articles that were deleted and edits that were reverted? I think it would be useful to call them out separately, given that some events seem to result in complete deletion/reversion and so the dashboard gives a very misleading view, suggesting success where there is actually failure. Bovlb (talk) 17:39, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Removing users from the dashboard

I asked this in a thread above, but I don't want it to get lost in the noise, and it seems important enough to have its own thread. What is the process for having someone removed as a facilitator or organizer, either for abuse or lack of competence? Bovlb (talk) 17:42, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I suppose if there is misuse of that tool occurring, one of the tool admins could remove a facilitator. Personally, I'd be unlikely to act on something that wasn't an actual misuse of the tool itself or some sort of emergency situation - but other admins might (my admin use on here is primarily technical in nature, not operational). There are foundation staff involved in this program that may have better answers. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:28, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

OK, just so I'm clear: If we have a situation where a outreach event is costing much more than any benefit it brings (in terms of disruption to projects, volunteer time, the effect on participants who are blocked or whose contributions are deleted, and the general damage to WMF's reputation), then that does not merit any intervention, and the organizers/facilitators should be free to repeat this with future events? If so, then this is not well-aligned with the perspective of volunteers on the projects being affected. Bovlb (talk) 20:40, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

That's a good question for the WMF resources here. Note, removing an event's coordinator, even deleting an event on the dashboard is not going to stop contributors from contributing to projects. Usually the dashboard is just part of a larger set of organization that is occurring off-wiki. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:41, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. It looks like we're going to be introducing a new policy soon that Wikidata-related events must have at least one credentialed Wikidata trainer. Do you have any thoughts on how that requirement could be enforced through the dashboard? Bovlb (talk) 04:11, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure, can you point to an example of one? — xaosflux ^Talk 04:54, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

An example of what? Bovlb (talk) 04:57, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

An example of a PED program/campaign that has wikidata as it's primary project. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Let me ask the same question another way. If I want to present the case for removing an organizer/facilitator/instructor, what is the correct venue in which to do that? Bovlb (talk) 22:01, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Right now, it's probably this talk page. But, this program is heavily supported by staff - so let's see what they have to say. Besides staff, the dashboard volunteer admins are listed here: Programs_&_Events_Dashboard/Admins. dashboard admins can stop a program, but we can't really stop a person from starting a new one. And PED admins have no special access to projects. If someone is disrupting a project, project management processes are usually going to be the quickest way to deal with it (e.g. communicating with contributors, blocking disruptive contributors). — xaosflux ^Talk 23:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm understanding things correctly. Are you saying that admins can stop existing programs, but anyone can just create new ones, and there's no filter or credentialing of dashboard users at all? So someone who was blocked on a project could create an event targetting that project? What if they were blocked on meta or globally locked? Bovlb (talk) 19:47, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

If they are globally locked they won't be able to sign on, so that will certainly stop them. AFAIK PED doesn't care about blocks (I did a test with one of my alts, and was able to create a program on PED while that account was blocked here). Outreach staff will need to answer this more. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:50, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. That seems like an odd omission. Requesting a global lock because someone may not be a competent instructor on one project seems disproportionate as a minimum possible intervention. Bovlb (talk) 19:56, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps. Users disrupting a single project should be able to be directly blocked on said project of course. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Right. And we could certainly block them locally (although in many cases they might not even notice). The oddity here is that the disruption is both indirect and magnified. We don't normally block editors for being inexperienced and ignorant, but we do not want them to act as trainers either. Experience shows that editors who have no regard for notability or responding to feedback don't tend to instill either in their students.

If the Wikidata project changes its policy as a result of the RFC, then this might require some enhancements to the PED in order to comply. Bovlb (talk) 20:25, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

I have a feeling most PED programs aren't focused on wikidata - they are almost always focused on encyclopedia projects. And lots of projects do all sorts of other events, editathons, etc that aren't part of this program. Did you find an example of a program that was actually set to wikidata as it's primary project? — xaosflux ^Talk 22:00, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

I have seen many events that include Wikidata among its projects. Here is an example of an event that only lists Wikidata. Bovlb (talk) 23:37, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. For a lot of this non-technical aspects, I suggest you send a contact request in to wikiedu about this discussion. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:29, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Program edits not updating- Edit-A-Thon

We are running an editithon edit-a-thon - and I am not seeing any updates. they seem to have stopped 3 days ago. Any sense of or advice on why? Thank You Cosmicarchive (talk) 15:51, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not showing updates on edits

Hi! I have created a program for an edit-a-thon[20] but I can't see any updates. Will appreciate any help and feedback. Thank you. Daragang Nagueña (talk) 16:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)