The Wikimedia Community Tech team is in the final stretch of their Community Wishlist 2017 work and recently announced the beta launch of the 'Event Metrics' project they worked on for the #3 wish. Since the initial proposal [1] was to improve Wiki Education's program organizing and metrics tool Programs & Events Dashboard [2], we've heard from a lot of people worried that Event Metrics [3] is supposed to be a replacement for the Dashboard or that the Dashboard is going away.
To clear up any potential confusion: Wiki Education will keep supporting Programs & Events Dashboard as part of our commitment to making our technology work as useful as possible to the rest of the Wikimedia movement. Our newly-expanded Technology department, along with many awesome volunteers and interns, is more committed than ever to improving the Dashboard as tool for global programs, because it's been so essential for many of you.
Programs & Events Dashboard recently passed the milestone of 4,000 programs, from more than 100 different wikis, and more than 28,000 editors have logged in [4].
For those who haven't used it before, or haven't done so in a while, some of the useful features include:
* Account registration for in-person edit-a-thons — to avoid getting stopped by the IP limit for new accounts * Automatically updated metrics for articles edited, number of edits, Commons uploads, etc. [5] * Additional downloadable metrics, including 7-day retention of new editors, the complete list of edits made * For English and Portuguese Wikipedia, tools for monitoring which articles are involved in deletion processes [6] * Translatable, wiki-editable training modules for newcomers [7] * For all the languages with ORES "article quality" models, extra data and visualizations based on ORES estimates
We have some additional features planned for the near future as well:
* Metrics for number of citations added * Wikidata metrics for claims created and references added
If you have feature requests or complaints, please do let us know either on the Meta talk page [8] or by opening an issue on GitHub [9]. Our team is small, so we rely heavily on the feedback we get from Programs & Events Dashboard users to identify problems and make improvements.
-Sage Ross Wiki Education
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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Programs_and_... [2] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ [3] https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/ [4] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/usage [5] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_ZA/Wiki_Loves_Africa... [6] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/artfeminism_2019/alerts [7] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editing-wikipedia/editing-bas... [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard [9] https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard/issues/new/choos...
I'm interested in the IP limit issue.. could you explain how it works, please?
Thanks
Galder ________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:18 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Programs & Events Dashboard
The Wikimedia Community Tech team is in the final stretch of their Community Wishlist 2017 work and recently announced the beta launch of the 'Event Metrics' project they worked on for the #3 wish. Since the initial proposal [1] was to improve Wiki Education's program organizing and metrics tool Programs & Events Dashboard [2], we've heard from a lot of people worried that Event Metrics [3] is supposed to be a replacement for the Dashboard or that the Dashboard is going away.
To clear up any potential confusion: Wiki Education will keep supporting Programs & Events Dashboard as part of our commitment to making our technology work as useful as possible to the rest of the Wikimedia movement. Our newly-expanded Technology department, along with many awesome volunteers and interns, is more committed than ever to improving the Dashboard as tool for global programs, because it's been so essential for many of you.
Programs & Events Dashboard recently passed the milestone of 4,000 programs, from more than 100 different wikis, and more than 28,000 editors have logged in [4].
For those who haven't used it before, or haven't done so in a while, some of the useful features include:
* Account registration for in-person edit-a-thons — to avoid getting stopped by the IP limit for new accounts * Automatically updated metrics for articles edited, number of edits, Commons uploads, etc. [5] * Additional downloadable metrics, including 7-day retention of new editors, the complete list of edits made * For English and Portuguese Wikipedia, tools for monitoring which articles are involved in deletion processes [6] * Translatable, wiki-editable training modules for newcomers [7] * For all the languages with ORES "article quality" models, extra data and visualizations based on ORES estimates
We have some additional features planned for the near future as well:
* Metrics for number of citations added * Wikidata metrics for claims created and references added
If you have feature requests or complaints, please do let us know either on the Meta talk page [8] or by opening an issue on GitHub [9]. Our team is small, so we rely heavily on the feedback we get from Programs & Events Dashboard users to identify problems and make improvements.
-Sage Ross Wiki Education
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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Programs_and_... [2] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ [3] https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/ [4] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/usage [5] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_ZA/Wiki_Loves_Africa... [6] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/artfeminism_2019/alerts [7] https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editing-wikipedia/editing-bas... [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard [9] https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard/issues/new/choos...
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On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:28 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder158@hotmail.com> wrote:
I'm interested in the IP limit issue.. could you explain how it works, please?
Thanks
Galder
If you are one of the facilitators for a program or course on Programs & Events Dashboard, there will be a button to "Enable account requests" on the home tab. Once you enable account requests, there are two ways to use the feature.
A user who follows the enrollment link and is not logged in will have the option to request an account by entering their email address and desired username. (The Dashboard will verify that the username is available before they can submit the request.) Then, the facilitator will be able to see a message when they view the program page, saying that there is a requested account waiting to be created. They can click to approve it — at which point, the Dashboard will create the account (and MediaWiki will email them the temporary password), and also add that user as an editor for that program.
A facilitator can also create a new account (and add it to the program) directly, by entering an email and desired username on the Editors tab. This is useful especially for in-person events like editathons, so that those without accounts can get set up immediately upon arriving (rather than needing to follow a link on their own computer).
How it works behind the scenes is that the facilitator or Dashboard admin who clicks to create the account will attempt to do the account creation action through OAuth with their own account (eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/Meredithdrum ), but if they cannot do so because of the IP limit, the account will be created by User:OutreachDashboardBot instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/OutreachDashboardBot
The feature can also be enabled by default for an entire campaign.
We built the initial account creation feature for Art+Feminism 2018, but this year, we added the OutreachDashboardBot fallback so event organizers to request Account Creator rights (which is what most people running an Art + Feminism event did in 2018).
-Sage
Thanks! I prefer students to work directly on Wiki and not on the Dashboard, as they don't understand why they are in a completely different page that doesn't seem to be related to Wikipedia. But this is useful for some courses. ________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 8:13 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Programs & Events Dashboard
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:28 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder158@hotmail.com> wrote:
I'm interested in the IP limit issue.. could you explain how it works, please?
Thanks
Galder
If you are one of the facilitators for a program or course on Programs & Events Dashboard, there will be a button to "Enable account requests" on the home tab. Once you enable account requests, there are two ways to use the feature.
A user who follows the enrollment link and is not logged in will have the option to request an account by entering their email address and desired username. (The Dashboard will verify that the username is available before they can submit the request.) Then, the facilitator will be able to see a message when they view the program page, saying that there is a requested account waiting to be created. They can click to approve it — at which point, the Dashboard will create the account (and MediaWiki will email them the temporary password), and also add that user as an editor for that program.
A facilitator can also create a new account (and add it to the program) directly, by entering an email and desired username on the Editors tab. This is useful especially for in-person events like editathons, so that those without accounts can get set up immediately upon arriving (rather than needing to follow a link on their own computer).
How it works behind the scenes is that the facilitator or Dashboard admin who clicks to create the account will attempt to do the account creation action through OAuth with their own account (eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/Meredithdrum ), but if they cannot do so because of the IP limit, the account will be created by User:OutreachDashboardBot instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/OutreachDashboardBot
The feature can also be enabled by default for an entire campaign.
We built the initial account creation feature for Art+Feminism 2018, but this year, we added the OutreachDashboardBot fallback so event organizers to request Account Creator rights (which is what most people running an Art + Feminism event did in 2018).
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