Talk pages consultation 2019/Action items

This page organizes current action items for the Talk pages consultation 2019 core team.

Action items

Open

Action	Responsible	Date	Notes	Status
P2 report	Team	19 July (rough draft) Done 19 August (final draft)	Collaborate together on filling in details for the Phase 2 report

Closed

Action	Responsible	Date	Notes	Status
Request translation on wikitech-ambassadors	Benoît	14 Feb		Done
Request translation on Translators-l	Benoît	15 Feb		Done
Announce on GLAM list	Sherry	14 Feb	https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2019-February/001540.html	Done
Announce on Edu list	Sherry	22 Feb	https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2019-February/002256.html	Done
Village pumps: ar.wp, commons, fr.wp, fr.wikt, fr.ws, fr.Wp's Aide et Accueil project,wikidata	Benoît	18 Feb	A first pass, to check if the message was okay. We have rewritten it a bit.	Done
Update /Discussion_systems page from Office, post it on Mediawiki	Sherry	21 Feb	Talk pages consultation 2019/Discussion tools in the past	Done
Send announcement MassMessage to Village pumps	Benoît	21 Feb	We can do another round if we don't get enough replies. Ambassadors are supposed to understand enough English. Village pumps (630 pages) Ambassadors (731 people)	Done
Figure out how to catalog the subpages	Thomas	21 Feb	Looks like template was added to bottom of main page; however, went ahead and linked all pertinent subpages into the Consultation structure section as well - first, for those on mobile and second, to keep focus on the core subpages	Done
Add footnotes to bullet points on Talk pages consultation 2019/Current feedback	Thomas			Done
Schedule meeting with Aubrie about official WMF Facebook/Twitter access for announcement posts	Danny	22 Feb	Scheduled for next Tuesday	Done
Contact kowiki and cswiki contacts	Benoît		We should talk with Marshall and Benoit first, to decide how to broach the subject.	Done
Launch the banner	Benoît		Follow up with Seddon to finalize the date? Looks like this launched on 25 Feb	Done
Contact edit-a-thon organizers	Trevor	6 March	Email sent on March 5 to ~20 edit-a-thon organizers as BCC.	Done
Discussions check-ins	Team	1 March	Check-ins to see how discussions are progressing, with the added of goal of providing guidance and further focus where needed. Some issues that should be explored: Editors should be including "why" with their opinions in order for the team to establish use cases. Should there be a purposeful barrier to entry for talk page participants in order to weed out undesirable editors? Reminding about where to post summaries (by April 6)	here is the message
Email setup for talk page feedback	Trevor	6 March	Done! talkpageconsultation@wikimedia.org	Done
Look into Qualtrics use	Trevor	6 March	The survey will be for the trade-offs/prioritization phase to garner feedback about specific proposals. Requires Legal privacy statement. Trevor has reached out to CE about Qualtrics accounts on March 4. Office page Niharika has the Audiences shared log-in. Create a mw.org/TPC2019 subpage to start listing questions for the Qualtrics survey for the Tradeoffs section	Done
New user feedback	Thomas/Danny	6 March (Thomas)	Look at the archive feedback from Flow's user test data and add to the feedback page. Danny will reach out to Nick to see if there is any other similar feedback	Done
Look into Affiliates distribution list	Benoît	8 March	For mass distribution of invites, contact Grants team; investigate whether there's a mailing list or central place to contact Messaging will mimic that of edit-a-thon organizers Post new info on Action Items page Contact https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Affiliations_Committee/Affiliates	Done
Contact Teahouse hosts	Benoît	21 Feb (initial) 11 March	We can pull the usernames from the host page, then MassMessage their user talk pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse#Talk_to_us_about_talking Sherry will post with clarification Contact individual hosts on 11 March	Done
Spanish WP outreach	Benoît	15 March	Reach out to the Spanish WP and leave messages about consultation	Done
MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group	Sherry (via Chris K)	15 March	Twitter	Done
EMWCon Spring 2019	Sherry (via Chris K)	15 March	Mailing list; requested discussion at event (April 3–5). (EMWCon has a lot of people who have to explain how to communicate on wikis to new users.)	Done
Seeking explanations	Benoît		Benoît will write some notes with examples of things we want more info about Posting to the conversation w/ follow-up questions: Thank everybody for participating, ping specific people, ask follow-up questions	Done (Phabricator link)
Landing page set-up	Danny	20 March	Set up landing page for folks to leave their feedback, either reporting from group/edit-a-thon discussions or leaving personal feedback.	Done
TPC page update	Sherry / Thomas	20 March	Update the TPC page to be in line with current phase.	Done
Thematic user groups outreach	Sherry		Message Black Lunch Table, Wikimedia Asian Month, Afrocrowd, Art + Feminism, Wiki Africa, Italian Wiki Women Group, Whose Knowledge; on-wiki outreach for other groups	Done
New editor outreach	Benoît		Reach out to users with more than 10 edits and less than 50 and who have already have made an edit on talk or user talk. (Phabricator link)	Done
Talk with CE	Sherry	27 March	Talk about TPC project with CE	Done
Emerging communities outreach	Benoît		Reach out to emerging communities/mid-sized wikis, tailoring the invitation around their growth. Make a list of EN-speaking contacts from list of active editors Message those editors Done as part of the affiliates outreach	Done
TPC page button	Thomas/Danny	29 March	The big button at the top of the TPC page only leads to a page for groups to leave feedback. Another button will be created for individuals to leave feedback on a separate page. Once this second page and button are created, they can then be translated.	Done
Berlin conf. staff outreach	Danny	27 March	There are some staff going to the Berlin conference. Danny will reach out to those staff and ask they report back any feedback they receive about wiki communication issues. (Note: Though done, this did not result in any feedback.)	Done
Legal outreach	Sherry		Reach out to legal about survey approval.	Done
Test banner	Sherry, Danny, Benoît	27-28 March	Sherry already talked with Seddon about using a test banner to gauge user interaction. Test banner has been approved by Seddon. Danny to create simple page with two questions to point users to who choose to click through on the banner. Sherry will write the banner. Banner will only live for 24 hours. French users will be pointed to existing French feedback page.	Done
Italian/Port. WP	Benoît		Reach out to contacts on the Italian and Portuguese WP	Done (unsuccessfully)
Top 10 outreach	Benoît / Sherry		Reach out to the top 10 wikis that have not generated any responses, as determined by editor activity.	Done All top-10 held consultations
Ask for help	Benoît / Danny	16 March (Benoît)	As the list of wikis and people grows, the team needs help in spreading the word. Ask for list of contacts and/or if contacts want to volunteer themselves Benoît will ask at the Partnerships and Global Reach meeting Danny will ask other WMF people.	Done
Chris and Olga	Danny		Reach out to Chris and Olga, i.e. "Talk pages are inaccessible on mobile."	Done
Continue reaching out via Mailing Lists	Sherry	15 March	Research Mailing Lists on Meta and determine which to reach out to; generate list & post on Action Items page. Nichole suggests we email education@lists.wikimedia.org for Edu program ambassadors Clean up/post list of wikis with specialized needs, support, knowledge equity, etc. Messaging will reflect that used for emerging communities	Done
Banner update	Benoît (?)		Check what we should do after the initial banner ends on 8 March. Necessary to run second banner pointing to conversation? Different banners might be needed due to languages.	Done
Tag sorting	Thomas	11 April (tentative)	Sort tags on internal documents for Phase 1 Status Report. Include comments and comment source.	Done
In-person user interviews at UC Berkeley A+F edit-a-thon	Claudia / Thomas	15 March (meeting) 11 April (report)	side-goal of Research:User_reporting_systems; Claudia is reaching out to individuals and getting back to the team	Done
Phase 1 Status Report	Danny, Sherry	12 April (tentative)	Publish on-wiki report about the status of the project, thanks, what the next phase entails, and associated values.	Done
User stories and tagging	Thomas, Danny, Marshall		Continue building user stories and tagging comments Public-facing document has been posted.	Done
Features inquiries	Danny		Talk to Ed S about VisualEditor on talk pages. Talk to Roan and Moriel about future evolution of SD/Flow. Ask for documentation, if there is any.	Done
Tools-in-use outreach	Danny/Benoît	mid-March	Reach out to people using social media & chat apps, as seen on tools in use page. We want to talk about what works/doesn't on wiki talk pages, and how that impacts their use of other platforms. Are there conversations that you can have or users that you can reach on these platforms that you can't on wiki talk pages? Arabic WP -- Facebook, Instagram Bangla WP -- Facebook, Instagram (Danny posted to NahidSultan March 5) Chinese WP(s) -- Telegram Georgian WP -- Facebook Gujararti WP -- WhatsApp Hindi WP -- WhatsApp Indonesian WP --- Telegram Italian WP -- Telegram Khmer WP -- Facebook Macedonian WP -- Facebook Persian WP -- Telegram Polish WP -- Facebook Portuguese WP -- Facebook (Benoît posted to Teles Feb 21) Russian WP -- Telegram (already have a consultation page on wiki) Danny to ask them about that Telegram Group.	Done
Custom tools	Danny/Trevor/Benoît		Danny -- will contact Jack who built the house on Russian and investigate their Telegram group -- posted March 18 on Jack's user talk Trevor to take a look at DE.WP for gadgets that customize talk pages French WP -- find the person/discussion when the blue/white stripes was created & discussed -- this is evidence to add to our pile -- Benoît will look Also look into FlowDeluxe A short list of user-created tools, as they pertain to issues users have with communication features (rather than aesthetics), can be found here.	Done
User testing	Marshall	17 April (testing done) 27 April (findings posted) 8 May (metadata testing started) 11 May (findings posted)	Marshall will be setting up some user testing targeted at new users who show interest in editing on Wikipedia, determined by a screening question. Process results and post that and videos.	Done
Group sign-up P2	Thomas	15 May	Revamp participant sign-up page to include P2 section	Done
Update TPC page	Thomas	15 May	Update main TPC page to reflect current ideation of schedule	Done
P1 Report announcement/P2 direction	Benoît	15 May	Individual outreach to communities about report and next steps	Done
Tags and prose	Sherry	15 May (tentative)	Continue working on summary of tagged issues. Post to mediawiki when complete. Talk with Hằng about adding illustrations; also to gauge her reaction and level of understanding Add How to Participate section for P2	Done
P2 central notice banner and landing page	Benoît	15 May (rough draft of landing page and banner) 27 May launch	Wording has been finalized and now needs translating. Landing page needs added links: P1 report, sign-up page, qualtrics, individual feedback page	Changed to report link
Build Qualtrics survey for trade-offs phase	Danny/Sherry/Benoît	29 April (initial questions proposed) 24 May (release)	The survey will be for the trade-offs/prioritization phase Niharika has shared log-in for Qualtrics Will need to be reviewed by Legal, they request a few days to review. (Documentation) (done) Benoît will handle translations	Scrapped
Information gathering	Thomas	Ongoing	Gather all responses from participating communities and place them in internal documentation, translated, by community Additional documentation to group all responses by question, each question with own doc	Done
Response tagging, P2	Thomas, Danny, Peter	Ongoing	Using master tag sheet, tag all gathered responses on the question docs	Done
Tag counting	Thomas	17 July	Tally tags using tagged questions documents	Done

Current open questions

For the following list: who is responsible, where will you post, and when? (Add to the table of action items above as we figure them out.)

Action	Responsible	Date	Notes	Status
Contact Emerging communities	Benoît	March	Because they have less infrastructure to support on-wiki communication, e.g., archiving bots. Next step: Look at contribution data to find a list of wikis with talk page activity to contact	Done (via MassMessage to affiliate talk pages)
Contact user groups with specialized needs	Sherry and Benoît	March	Translation-related talk pages Wiki Loves Monuments, maybe at https://twitter.com/wikimonuments m:Wikipedia Asian Month User Group#Contact information (3 users) Commons talk:Commons Photographers User Group m:Wikimedia movement affiliates/Noticeboard https://www.facebook.com/Wikisource/ and/or https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l m:Talk:Wikimedians for offline wikis https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibaseug (invite to [1])	Partially done
Invite people that deal with problems			e.g., stewards, global sysops, anti-spam folks, editors dealing with conflicts of interest and paid editing, arbitration committees, community health initiative folks, etc.
Invite people supporting emerging communities and knowledge equity	Benoît	March	e.g., chapters in the countries described in m:Emerging communities	Done
Invite people who provide tech support to new editors			https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries m:Wikimedia Tool Developers Group#Contact Wikimedians in Residence Facebook Group m:Talk:Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network m:Talk:Florida Librarians of Wikipedia Maybe #1lib1ref folks on Twitter? People interested in m:Learning and Evaluation/News/Training of Trainers Berlin 2019 or other train-the-trainers groups?
Post invitation on Meta's Main Page

Communities and groups

Communities

Community	Language	Responsible	Outreach	Discussion	Approx. Participants	Feedback imported?
Arabic Wikipedia	Arabic	Benoît (Village Pump)	Via FB/Instagram N Not done Outreach	Discussion	4	Done
Bangla Wikipedia	Bengali	Danny	Via NahidSultan	N/A	N/A	No
Chinese Wikipedia	Chinese		Via Telegram N Not done Sign-up via banner	Discussion	Over 10	Done
Commons	English	Benoît	Outreach	Discussion	1	Done
Dutch Wikipedia	Dutch		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	3	Done
English Wikipedia	English	Benoît	Outreach	Discussion	Over 10	Done
English Wikisource	English	Benoît	Outreach	Discussion	7	Done
French Wikipedia	French	Benoît	Outreach	Discussion	Over 10	Done
French Wiktionary	French	Benoît	Outreach	Discussion	7	Done
German Wikipedia	German		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	Over 10	Done
Hindi Wikipedia	English/Hindi	Benoît	Outreach Via WhatsApp N Not done	See Outreach	7	Done
Hungarian Wikipedia	Hungarian		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	4	Done
Iberocoop	Spanish, Portuguese, Italian	Benoît	N/A	Discussion	Over 10	Done
Japanese Wikipedia	Japanese		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	0	Done
Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia	Norwegian Bokmål		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	1	Done
Russian Wikipedia	Russian		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	Over 10	Done
Thai Wikipedia, Newcomers	Thai		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	6	Done
Wikidata	English	Benoît	Outreach	Discussion	Over 10	Done
Catalan Wikipedia	Catalan		Sign-up via banner	Discussion	1	Done
Polish Wikipedia	Polish		Via Facebook N Not done Sign-up via banner	Discussion	Over 10	Done
French Wikisource	French	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Meta	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikinews	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikibooks	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikiquote	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikiversity	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wiktionary	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikivoyage	English	Benoît	Outreach	N/A	N/A	N/A
Italian Wikipedia	Italian	Benoît	Individual contact  Done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Portuguese Wikipedia	Portuguese	Benoît	Individual contact  Done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Georgian Wikipedia	Georgian		Via Facebook N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Gujarati Wikipedia	Gujarati		Via WhatsApp N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Indonesian Wikipedia	Indonesian		Via Telegram N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Khmer Wikipedia	Khmer		Via Facebook N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Macedonian Wikipedia	Macedonian		Via Facebook N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Persian Wikipedia	Persian		Via Telegram N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Korean Wikipedia	Korean	Benoît	N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Czech Wikipedia	Czech	Benoît	N Not done	N/A	N/A	N/A
Village Pumps	Multiple	Benoît	Via Mass Message (needs spot-checking)	Known links in this very table	630 sites	N/A

Individuals/Groups

Many of those listed below were referred to wikis to leave feedback, most notably the main TPC feedback page.

Individual (Group)	Language	Responsible	Outreach	Approx. Participants
Black Lunch Table	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Art + Feminism	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
AfroCROWD	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Wiki Africa	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Wiki Conference	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Wiki Mujeres	Spanish	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Wiki Donne	Italian	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Whose Knowledge	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
India Technical Group	English	Sherry	Via email	N/A
Users w/ more than 10 edits, less than 500, made an edit on talk or user talk.	Multiple	Benoît	Via Mass Message Polish Wikipedia: 80 Thai Wikipedia: 38 German Wikipedia: 101 Dutch Wikipedia: 94 Spanish Wikipedia: 109	N/A
In-person user interviews at UC Berkeley A+F edit-a-thon	English		In-person follow-up (Claudia) N Not done Summary of conversations recorded  Done	N/A
Facebook/Twitter (re:Aubrie)	Multiple	Danny	Via post N Not done Too late during P1	N/A
Jack who built the house	Russian/English	Danny	Via conference (notes)	1
8 March summit	French	Benoît	Via questionnaire N Not done Lack of responses	N/A
Edit-a-thon organizers	English	Trevor	Via email	N/A
Teahouse hosts	English/French	Benoît	Via Mass Message	252
MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group	English	Sherry	Via Twitter	N/A
Ambassadors	English	Benoît	Via Mass Message	731
Edu program ambassadors	English	Sherry	Via email N Not done	N/A
GLAM	English	Sherry	Outreach	N/A
Edu	English	Sherry	Outreach	N/A
EMWCon Spring 2019	English	Sherry	Via Chris K	N/A
Affiliates	English	Benoît	Via Mass Message	160