Project:New contributors/Roadmap

People
Automatic fields:
 * Badges - Project membership, Group membership, Events attended, Mentorship programs.
 * Maybe good to use an existing solution for this. OpenBadges?


 * Activity stats - MediaWiki, Gerrit, Bugzilla, Labs.
 * Could centralize these somehow, in a dashboard to show others.
 * See - List of Gerrit users

Social:
 * TBD - A way to show related users.
 * TBD - A way to show Wikilove / Barnstars / Likes given to and received from.

Searching people:
 * For lists of people around one tag see Groups.


 * Combined tag searches e.g. Barcelona AND JavaScript, Lua AND Willing to learn.

Metrics:
 * TBD: Lists of top contributors based on user stats e.g. top code reviewers of the month.

World map of contributors:
 * The old idea. Manual or allowing optional geolocation.

Groups

 * Users can sign up explicitly as members, appearing as such in the list.
 * Groups that are officially recognized as Wikimedia User Groups are identified as such.

Projects

 * Project admins can identify users as project members with roles.

Tasks

 * Users can add themselves as mentors for tasks.
 * Users can signal that they are interested in a task.

Events

 * After the event: organizers distribute badges to actual participants.

Notifications
Automatic notifications for subscribers:
 * Your watched Project has a new status report.
 * Your watched user has a new role.
 * Your Group/Project has a new member.

Ontology

 * Considering using fuzzy geolocation coordinates in relation to city / region / country for better promotion of local activities e.g. promoting an event in San Diego (CA, USA) to contributors from Tijuana (BC, Mexico).


 * Study possibilities and benefits of syncing some of our categories with Wikidata:
 * Locations e.g. countries.
 * Programming languages.
 * Human languages.
 * FLOSS projects.
 * Hobbies