Growth/Newsletters/32
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Current work
editNewcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis and we start testing it at our pilot wikis for an A/B test at our pilot wikis using the new Metrics Platform.
Title, logo, description, call to action... All Community Updates module's elements have been documented.
We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
Constructive activation experimentation
As part of our annual plan, we explore various ways to increase constructive activation on mobile.
During Wikimania in Katowice, we conducted some user testing to review the different designs we have created.
Community Configuration work continues
This extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs.
For the time being, the Growth team is working on providing components to other Wikimedia Foundation teams so that they can make their products configurable. This allowed the Moderation Tools team to provide Community Configuration for Automoderator at Turkish Wikipedia.
Soon, all wikis will have access to Community Configuration, as we plan to make the Babel extension community configurable. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328171
Future work
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Stay informed
edit- Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
- Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.