(Apologies for cross-posting and for the message being in English only!)
Dear WLE organizers and participants,
We have some good news for you! As potential interested stakeholders, we
would like to share with you that the Connection Product team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/Foundation_Pro…>
at the Wikimedia Foundation is enabling the CampaignEvents extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents> on Wikimedia
Commons by the week of September 15th.
This extension is designed to simplify the management of community events,
projects, and campaigns, such as yours! In addition to facilitating the
discovery and participation of all contributors in these events. Once it's
enabled on Wikimedia Commons, organizers will have access to features that
will help communicate with participants, as well as plan, organize, and
promote events/campaigns/projects on Wikimedia Commons, without having to
rely on external platforms.
The features of the extension are:
- Event Registration:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Center/Registration> A tool that
helps organizers and participants manage event registration directly on the
wiki.
- Collaboration List
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/Foundation_Pro…>:
A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at
Special:AllEvents <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllEvents>.
- Invitation List:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Invitatio…>
A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on
their past contributions.
For more information, please check the message shared
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Upcoming_Deployment…>
on Wikimedia Commons’ Village Pump.
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to share them on
the extension discussion page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CampaignEvents>. We would love to
hear from you before the rollout!
As organizers, if you want to know more about the extension or help us
engage/use the features on Wikimedia Commons, and assist us in creating an
adoption strategy for the extension, please let us know either here,
on the extension
discussion page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CampaignEvents>, or
by contacting me directly via <gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org>.
Thanks so much for your attention!
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>