Hello all,
As Tighe and Sage said, the Program and Events Dashboard is pretty much
ready for beta users. There will be bugs that we haven't found yet, and
there are features that we want to implement but haven't yet. But you can
create a program on any wiki language project, such as Spanish Wikipedia or
Armenian Wictionary. Sage gave a good breakdown of what we are working on
right now, and we are hoping to make a small announcement to current
program leaders early October (which is also when WikiConference North
America is happening). Here's what you can do to get involved, if you are
interested:
1) Translate the Dashboard interface: with the helpful info from Vira and
Nemo in the thread above, you can translate the Dashboard into your
programs' language(s).
2) Give feedback: particularly on things that things that are broken.
(Feedback on things that would be nice to have in the future is good too
but won't be addressed as immediately.) You can submit the bug on
phabricator [1], or email it to Tighe or I, and we'll get it to the
developers and put you in touch with them if they need clarification.
3) Join a bi-weekly check-in of beta users. Informal, half-hour meeting in
which the developers update us on what they have fixed and are fixing,
early adopters discuss how they are using the Dashboard, and everyone
shares the bugs they found. Ideally, users who are more comfortable with
phabricator can help submit the bugs found by users less familiar with
phabricator. Email me if you are interested in joining. I will also be
reaching out to some people who have been creating test programs on the
Dashboard as well, so you may here from me again then.
Hope all of this helps, please let me know if I can clarify anything.
Woohoo for a (mostly) working Dashboard!
All the best,
Amanda
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/education-program-dashboard/
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Vira Motorko, 22/09/2016 12:45:
Btw, please remind me, how much time it takes for translations made on
translatewiki.net <http://translatewiki.net> to appear on Dashboard
As mentioned in
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Localisation_ for_developers#Export
, translations are exported every few days. I
don't know how often the
sysadmins update the code on the website you mentioned, though; whoever
knows may want to add this information to
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wiki_Ed_Dashboard , if
that's the
same project.
Nemo
I've been deploying to the Programs & Events Dashboard irregularly,
usually every couple of weeks. I deployed the latest version about an
hour ago.
Vojtěch's posts on Phabricator haven't been ignored; we've fixed some
of the easier ones already, and I know that Danny Horn, who is
managing the efforts of the WMF Community Tech team to make
improvements to the Programs & Events Dashboard, has seen them all.
For now, my understanding is that the top priority items on their
agenda are:
1. To allow the dashboard to handle events — like edit-a-thons — that
take place on a single day and have a specific start and end time, so
that the statistics will reflect only what happens during the exact
timeframe that organizers intend.
2. To fix some of the language that is still overly classroom-focused.
3. To build out a concept of "Campaigns" that will make it possible to
create a single event in a larger campaign that follows a standard
format for that campaign.
It sounds like the current trajectory will have the first and maybe
second of those done by WikiConference North America, so the tentative
plan would be to have the more publish launch the Tighe referrred to
around then. But for education programs in particular, it's probably
not going to be a significantly different by then.
-Sage