Hello @Ragesoss can you assign me a new microtask or may I choose any of the newcomer friendlt issue from git. Since its my first time contributing. I have read about this project thoroughly and pretty confident I can work with frontend componets without any help though i may need your mentoring working on with some of the backend components.

Hi and thank you for your interest! Please check thoroughly https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers (and all of its communication section!). The page covers how to get started, assigning tasks, task status, how to find a codebase, how to create patches, where to ask general development questions and where to get help with setup problems, and how to ask good questions. Thanks a lot! :)

The focus is not for a

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

Hi, @Astinson, thx for your reply. We use the Dashboard with newcomers and non-English contributors on a monthly basis during or workshops and edit-a-thons at Wikimedia Belgium and it works very smoothly. The interface is translated in french and several other languages and is way more intuitive than Wikipedia itself. (The interface of the Dashboard is quite minimalistic, how can it be overwhelming?) The only frustration expressed by the our new contributors is that they cannot easily access the dashboard.

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

I've just sent the data to @Rmaung. It includes every record in the database, which should stretch all the way back to when the first training module was added.

I have added this project to our GSOC 2024 Media Wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2024#Ideas_for_projects

I have added this project to our GSOC 2024 Media Wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2024#Ideas_for_projects

I've put this on my todo list. I'm on vacation next week but might be able to do it the following week.

In the context of T322740, it seems this is a duplicate of T289890 whom was rejected without explanation.

In T356572#9535319, @Ragesoss wrote:

@Maryann-Onyinye done! thanks!

@Maryann-Onyinye done! thanks!

In T356153#9509252, @M0tty wrote:

Here is an example of where the link could go, in the Special:Contributions page (not both places at the same time, but one of the two could be great)

Thank you for sharing your project proposal. Please can you add the expected size of project it can be either: 90, 175 or 350 hours. If possible please also add, an easy, intermediate or hard/difficult rating. This helps the more inexperienced folks not get overwhelmed and they can focus on reviewing easy project ideas.

One of the major things that bother new contributors is the complex navigation, especially with other wikis within the Wikimedia ecosphere as well as with tools. In many other platforms (other than Wikimedia) everything is integrated, in Wikimedia it is left to the users to deal with it (like upstairs does not care). Within Wikimedia it has been chosen to use external websites (external = outside that specific wiki, but within Wikimedia ecosphere), but then Wikimedia should still make sure the tools are integrated and made easy to use for local users. That is in general, but for the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard it is even more important, as this tool is often used by new users, which already have to navigate through the maze of the platforms, for them it is extra important that this tool is smoothly integrated in the wiki infrastructure.

An other option could be to add a link in the user menu, the same way the translation tool is linked (with a plugin to opt-in in the beta settings).

Is the link https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/? I don't think we can link to external sites.

Here is an example of where the link could go, in the Special:Contributions page (not both places at the same time, but one of the two could be great)

Indeed it seems to fit under that larger goal.

I assume this would live under T322740: Contribute entry point.

When was this screenshot from? I deployed the update that switched it to LiftWing about 3 weeks ago, and it shouldn't be hitting the old ORES server anymore. I just double-checked, and the Article Finder feature is behaving as expected for me with requests going to LW.

Hi! Please consider resolving this task and moving any pending items to a new task, as GSoC/Outreachy rounds are now over, and this workboard will soon be archived.

Hi! Please consider resolving this task and moving any pending items to a new task, as GSoC/Outreachy rounds are now over, and this workboard will soon be archived.