User:CKoerner (WMF)/Campaigns

Campaigns

The Campaigns product team of the Wikimedia Foundation aims to improve the experience of Wikimedia campaigns. The team was formed in 2021, as part of the Product department. We focus on the needs of campaign and event organizers and participants. We plan to incrementally build and improve features in the campaigns ecosystem over time.

The team

Antoni Mtavangu

Product Ambassador for Swahili communities

Benedict Udeh

Movement Communications Specialist

Bonaventura Aditya Perdana

Product ambassador for Indonesian communities

Claudio Melo

Tech Lead/Staff Software Engineer

Emanuele Leoni

Software Engineer III

Euphemia Uwandu

Program Officer

Georges Fodouop

Product Ambassador for French communities

Gregory Onyeahialam

Senior UX Designer

Ilana Fried

Senior Product Manager

Irene Florez

Data Scientist III

Isabel Zapico

Product Ambassador for Spanish communities

M. Bachounda

Product Ambassador for Arabic communities

Michelle Maria Horsey

Senior Software Engineer

Valérie Puffet-Michel

Engineering Manager

Vaughn Walters

Test Engineer

How we work

As a team, our vision is to build robust, long-term support for Wikimedia campaign events. To make this possible, we plan to create a Campaign Events platform, which we call the Event Center. This platform will have an organizer and participant side. The organizer side will provide the tools and resources that organizers need to create and manage impactful campaign events. The participant side will provide the guidance and support that participants need to meaningfully engage with Wikimedia campaigns. Note that the details of this platform are still being determined.

Overall, this platform will be:

Modular: This means that features can be separated and recombined, based on the special needs of a wiki or community.
Extensible: This means that features can be added over time by our team, other teams, or volunteer developers.

At first, we’ll be focused on building the organizer side of the platform, which we are currently calling the “Organizer Center” (note: this name may change, along with all feature names we mention at this stage). The first tool in the Organizer Center will be a registration configuration solution. Over time, we plan to address the top campaign event requests (as detailed in the image below). We determined this list of requests by conducting interviews with 50+ organizers across the movement, along with digging into existing research and studies.

Regarding the participant side of the platform, we recognize its tremendous importance. For this reason, we also plan to focus on it later on, after we have built some of the foundational infrastructure for the organizer side.

We believe that registration is a solid first building block for this platform. By working on it first, we’ll be in a strong position to work on subsequent projects. We don’t yet know the order in which we will tackle the other requests, but we have provided this mapping (see below) to demonstrate some potential paths we can take.

We will keep this page updated as our thought process on our team plans and strategy develops. In the meantime, you can follow our project page or subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated.

Projects

The team has built various features for the CampaignEvents extension, includingː

Event registration: We have created an on-wiki tool that lets organizers add a 'Register' button to their event page. The event registration solution also includes many other features, such as: the option for participants to register privately, automatic confirmation emails after registration, integration with the Programs & Events Dashboard, and more.
Collaboration List: The Collaboration List is a global, automated list of events on the wikis, and it is also a list of WikiProjects on a given local wiki. Organizers don’t need to do any extra work for their event or WikiProject to appear on the Collaboration List. As long as they use Event Registration for their event, their event will appear in the Collaboration List. Meanwhile, as long as their WikiProject has a Wikidata item, the WikiProject will be included in the Collaboration List. The Collaboration List also includes filters, so users can easily search for specific types of events.
Event discovery (invitation lists): The event discovery project aims to create or improve tool(s) that make it easier for editors to learn about campaign events on the wikis. For this project, we are developing an Invitation List tool, which allows organizers to generate a list of contributors who they may want to invite to their events.

We plan to start with these projects, and see what we learn from working with Organizers.

If you want to be updated on our roadmap and technical developments please join our update subscription below.

Follow our work

Telegram group

You can join the Event Organizer group on Telegram, which is a multilingual chat group for organizers of events in the Wikimedia movement. We post announcements and updates about our team's work in the Telegram group, and we also take in feedback, such as feature requests and bug reports. Organizers are encouraged to share their updates, tools, and ideas in the group too.

We previously sent regular newsletter updates via MassMessage, however we have more recently been sharing our updates via Telegram (see above). However, we may revive the newsletter in the future, so people should still feel free to still sign upǃ

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How we work

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