Collaboration

For the current iteration of this team, see Growth.

Wikimedia engineering activityWikimedia Engineering Collaboration Build features that encourage collaboration. Group: Contributors Start: 2014-01-01 End: 2018-06-30 Team: Stephane Bisson, Benoît Evellin, Pau Giner, Moriel Schottlender, Elena Tonkovidova Management: Ryan Kaldari (engineering manager), Roan Kattouw (lead engineer), Joe Matazzoni (product manager)

The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation is tasked with encouraging more new users to sign up for and contribute to Wikimedia projects, encourage new editors to continue participating, and help active contributors to be effective.

You can find us in IRC at #wikimedia-collaboration^connect.

Planned projects

• In-Context Help and Onboarding is in its very early planning stages, but we welcome your input. The project begins officially in July, 2018.

People

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  Stephane Bisson
  Software Engineer

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  Benoît Evellin
  Community Liaison

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  Pau Giner
  Senior User Experience Designer

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  Ryan Kaldari
  Engineering Manager

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  Roan Kattouw
  Lead Engineer

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  Joe Matazzoni
  Product Manager

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  Moriel Schottlender
  Senior Software Engineer

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  Elena Tonkovidova
  QA Engineer

Past projects

Past projects by various iterations of the team and volunteer developers:

• Map Improvements 2018
  • Phabricator board
• Edit Review Improvements
  • Phabricator board
• Thanks
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• Structured Discussions, formerly Flow, discussion and collaboration software. Now in production as opt-in for talk pages, help pages and village pump-style discussion forums, on wikis that request it.
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• Notifications (Echo), a redesign of the notifications system in Wikipedia. It was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in November 2013.
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• New Page Triage, redesigning the New Page Patrol experience.
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• WikiLove, a tool designed to encourage community health and reduce "bite".
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• MoodBar, a tool designed to encourage feedback from new users, with Feedback Dashboard supporting review by experienced members.
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• Article Feedback Tool, a tool designed to encourage readers to provide feedback on articles.
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit