Talk:Community configuration 2.0

July 2023 - initial thoughts regarding Community configuration 2.0
The Growth team plans to create a Community Configuration 2.0, based on Special:EditGrowthConfig.

This new feature will allow local administrators to change settings for Wikimedia Foundation-designed features. This way, they can configure the different features to best suit their wiki’s specific needs. This strategy eliminates the technical barrier for admins, to customize local settings. This also encourages a more inclusive and collaborative product development process.

This configuration page is visible to anyone, but only a selected group of users can edit it and configure Growth features

But, there are currently two primary limitations to Community Configuration:


 * Discoverability: Many Administrators are unaware of the existence of Community Configuration.
 * Usage Scope: At present, only the Growth features can use Community Configuration.

We plan to integrate Community configuration into MediaWiki, as a default feature. Other Wikimedia Foundation teams and volunteer developers will be able to create Community configurable features. We expect this central place to be more discoverable.

Before the Growth team starts this project, we are seeking feedback, to guide our efforts in the right direction. We are particularly interested in your thoughts on the following:


 * 1) How do you feel about more Wikimedia Foundation features that can be configured (enabled, disabled, edited) by Administrators?
 * 2) * Do you have any reservations or concerns about this idea?
 * 3) What can we do to ensure that all Administrators are well-informed about Community Configuration?
 * 4) How confident are Administrators in making changes using Community Configuration?
 * 5) Based on your experience editing Special:EditGrowthConfig, are any parts of the procedure unclear or ambiguous?
 * 6) Community Configuration should be visible to all. Should it only be modifiable by a select group of experienced Wikimedians?
 * 7) Should all configuration options be only editable by Administrators and interface administrators?
 * 8) * Should we consider different user access levels for certain configuration options?
 * 9) Out of curiosity, do you have any thoughts on how many edits would be made to this community configuration page each year?

Your insights will be invaluable in shaping the trajectory of this project. We look forward to your constructive feedback! Trizek (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 18 July 2023 (UTC)