Collaboration

See also: Editor engagement portal on English Wikipedia

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Collaboration

Build features that encourage collaboration.

Group:	Contributors
Start:	2014-01-01
Team:	Elena Tonkovidova, Joe Matazzoni, Matthew Flaschen, Moriel Schottlender, Pau Giner, Stephane Bisson, Nick Wilson, Benoît Évellin
Lead:	Roan Kattouw

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.

Current projects

The team is currently working on:

• Edit Review Improvements

Planned projects

• Researching workflow processes.
  • See phab:T103082 and Collaboration/Workflows for notes.

Past projects

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

• Thanks
  • Open Tasks
  • Gerrit
• 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