WikiCommunication

This page offers an overview of what the Wikimedia Foundation's Product Department is doing in 2020-2022 to improve communication between volunteers using Mediawiki talk pages.

This page contains information about the objectives of this work, the projects that are underway, and why improving communication is a priority.

To follow how this project is developing, the teams recommend adding this page to your watchlist:



Background
As, "...fundamentally social and community-driven projects...", communication is a core part of Wikimedia wikis. Communication helps shape these wikis' policies, culture and ultimately, the knowledge that is and is not represented within them.

The trouble is, communicating on-wiki happens on talk pages which can be challenging for people, across experience levels, to use on the web and within Wikipedia's native Android and iOS apps.

This program is designed to make participating in communication, whether via desktop, mobile web or the apps, an understandable and rewarding process for participants, both veteran and new.