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Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together

Martin Urbanec, Benoît Evellin�& guests!

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Benoît Evellin

Movement Communications Specialist

Product & Technology

Wikimedia Foundation�Édouard Hue - CC-BY-SA

Speakers Guests

Sam Walton

Senior Product Manager

Moderator tools team

Wikimedia Foundation

Myleen Hollero - CC-BY-SA

Martin Urbanec

Senior Software Engineer

Growth team

Wikimedia Foundation

Gampe - CC-BY-SA

Kirsten Stoller

Senior Product Manager�Growth team

Wikimedia Foundation

Kirsten Stoller - CC-BY-SA

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Olga Vasileva

Principal Product Manager

Web team

Wikimedia Foundation

Myleen Hollero - CC-BY-SA

Ilana Fried

Senior Product Manager

Campaigns team

Wikimedia Foundation

Peter Pelberg

Lead Product Manager

Wikimedia Foundation

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  1. Introduction to Community configuration
    1. What is it? How does it work?
    2. What is deployed, what is scheduled?
  2. Discussion with the panel

Agenda

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Community configuration:

What is it? How does it work?

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Have you ever wanted to configure a feature on your wiki?

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If yes, please raise your hand!

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  • Limited discoverability
  • Changing wiki configuration often requires technical knowledge
  • On-wiki configuration is dispersed all along the wiki

Challenges�regarding on-wiki configuration

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At English Wikipedia: Citoid’s configuration is dispersed over 10 pages

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  • Template map
  • Parameter map for every single template

Citoid’s �configuration

Citoid is used to generate well-formatted citations on Wikipedia.

Example:

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Screenshot, Special:CommunityConfiguration, English Wikipedia, July 19, 2024

NEW!

One page to group all configurations

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Screenshot from Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship, English Wikipedia, July 19, 2024

NEW!

Each feature is configurable using a form.

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NEW!

History pages keep track of changes.

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A configuration platform:

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  • one place to discover all configurations
  • simple to use for administrators
    • community decides on the configuration, and apply it
  • standard system for developers

So…what is it?

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Community configuration:

What is deployed, what is scheduled

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Current deployment

All Wikipedias (and French Wiktionary) have access to Community Configuration at Special:CommunityConfiguration

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Already available

Growth team

A few configuration options available for Growth features:

  • If Mentorship is available to newcomers and who is eligible to be a Mentor
  • Newcomer onboarding notifications
  • Suggested edits availability and newcomer task customization
  • Which help articles are surfaced to newcomers in the Help panel.

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configurable

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Future �improvements

  • Moderator tools team
    • Automoderator
  • Editing team
    • Edit Check
  • Campains team
    • Event Registration
  • Web team
    • Font size

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Moderator Tools team

Automoderator

  • Automoderator is fully controlled (on/off) through Community Configuration�
  • It can also be customised to behave in ways your wiki wants�
  • This improves on the developer-centric configuration of existing anti-vandalism bots

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More information: [[mw:Automoderator]]

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Editing team

Edit check

Volunteers can configure Edit Check in a range of ways…

  • Define the amount of text someone needs to add for Reference Check to get activated�
  • Determine the editors whose edits will be checked�
  • Configure what sections Edit Check should ignore edits to

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More information: [[mw:EditCheck]]

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Campaigns team

CampaignEvents

extension

  • Communities can enable:
    • Event Registration
    • Event List
    • Invitation List
  • Organizer right is controlled by wiki admins
  • We can learn what other configurations are needed

More information: [[m:CampaignEvents]]

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Web team

Font size

  • We have increased the default font size for Wikipedias
  • Optimal font size is dependent on the language and script
  • Allowing communities to configure typography can expand our ability to support readability across languages and scripts

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Questions time!

We have questions for you:

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  • Special:CommunityConfiguration is not visible on wiki - where does this belong? Where should it be added?

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  • Question for developers: would you be interested in making gadgets being activated/configured in Community Configuration?

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  • Do you imagine a feature (one presented, or another) or a gadget that should be in Community Configuration?

You have questions for us about Community Configuration:

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