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Precious anniversary
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Feedback request: History and geography request for comment
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Campaigns Product Update #3
Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers!

We are excited to share our updates:


 * Proposal to create new namespaces: We have proposed to create two namespaces, which are “Event” and “Event talk.” This way, we can easily create an Event Center that pulls data from event pages. This Event Center may include tools to create event pages with registration support, a calendar of events, and event statistics, among other features. More importantly, the Event Center will highlight organizing as an essential part of the Wikimedia movement. Please give us feedback on Phabricator or Meta about our proposal to create two new namespaces.


 * Engineering updates: We are excited that we have finished hiring for our engineering team! Three engineers and an engineering manager have joined our team since our last update. In the last few months, they have conducted technical planning and launched the building phase of the project. They are now building the registration tool. You can see the updated team on meta.


 * Design updates: We conducted usability tests with a small group of testers for early feedback on the desktop wireframes. After collecting this feedback, we have developed a new version for desktop wireframes, which will be ready to share in the next few weeks. These desktop wireframes display the user flow of two experiences: one for organizers who want to add registration to their event pages, and another for participants who want to register for an event. Additionally, the design team is also currently working on the first version of mobile wireframes, which will be shared during the next office hour.


 * 1. View the latest desktop wireframes in Figma for Campaign Organizer Prototype and Participant Registration Prototype.
 * 2. Leave us some feedback on the desktop wireframes. Note that we haven’t posted the newest version of the desktop wireframes on the project page yet, but we will soon (and you can feel free to add feedback on any version you have seen).


 * Ambassador updates: Three product ambassadors for the Arabic, French and Swahili communities have now joined our team! They will help us collect feedback from Wikimedia communities about the project and understand the needs of organizers, through gathering first-hand information. These ambassadors are immersed as actual members of these communities, so they will also help us identify the needs of the organizers in our pilot communities. The ambassadors are: M. Bachounda for Arabic communities, Georges Fodouop for French communities, and Antoni Mtavangu for Swahili communities.

What is next?
 * Next Office Hour: We will be holding an office hour on March 31, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, which will be conducted via Zoom. We invite everyone to attend, and we really hope to see you! The focus will be on the Registration Tool. The team will also be providing community updates on the usability test findings and design highlights for the wireframes. We will also share our current Project timeline and answer any questions you may have. Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!


 * In a few months, we are expecting to have the early testable version of the tool. By then, the team will be doing the first round of general testing and gathering feedback. We are looking forward to adding more features on the tool such as communication support, potentially by the end of this year. If you know other organizers that might be interested in following these developments, please recommend that they subscribe to the newsletter. We want to receive as much feedback as we can.

Thank you!

The Campaign Product Team

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Internet Archive Scholar vs. JSTOR
Hello, I see on your user page that you use JSTOR and I'd like to know more about your experience. By my calculations, a good 70 % of the main JSTOR content is now available for everyone at Internet Archive Scholar, with full text search provided e.g. at https://scholar.archive.org/. The service is still in beta, but I've used it for some source-finding and it seems quite usable to me; I wonder whether that's just my experience. If you have a chance, the next time you'd be looking for a source on Google Scholar or JSTOR or similar, to perform the same search on IA scholar instead, I'd be curious to hear how it ends up. Thanks, Nemo 19:06, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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Campaign Product Team Office Hour - March 31, 2022
Hello Campaign Product Newsletter subscribers!

The Campaign Product Team will be hosting the next office hour to share exciting updates on the Registration Tool and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile and desktop wireframes.

Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!


 * Date: March 31, 2022
 * Time: 15:00 UTC
 * Zoom Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320

You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product Team to learn more about the Team and the previous wireframes.

Feel free to send a message to ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org if you want to receive an email reminder for this meeting.

Thank you.

The Campaign Product Team

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Event Registration Tool: Demo and Invitation to Test
Hello Subscribers!

The Campaigns Product Team from the Wikimedia Foundation will be hosting two office hours to  demo the new Event Registration Tool, and train organizers how to  use it. In these office hours, you will learn how to:


 * Create an event page in the new event namespace (as an event organizer)
 * Enable registration on your event page (as an event organizer)
 * Collect data on who registered for your event (as an event organizer)
 * Register for an event on the event page (as an event participant)

You can attend one office hour or both, depending on your availability on the following dates:
 * Session 1: Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC
 * Session 2: Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

These events will be multilingual, with live interpretations in Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese, and Swahili. Note that Portuguese will be available on the 21st, but not the 23rd. We strongly encourage you to join and share your feedback on the tool. Your feedback will help us improve the tool so that Wikimedians can have a better event experience. To register, please reply to this email or sign-up to our page, by adding your signature.

Thank you!

IBrazal (WMF) (talk) 06:26, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Campaign Product Team Office Hour - July 21, 2022
Hello Campaign Product Newsletter subscribers!

The Campaign Product Team will be having an office hour today, July 21, 2022 at 17:00 UTC via Zoom to demo the first release of the Event Registration Tool.

You may join the office hour using this meeting link.

We look forward to your participation.

Thank you.

Best,

The Campaign Product Team

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Transgender Medicaid Coverage Map Update
Hello OwenBlacker,

Could you please update the on WikiMedia Commons when you can? Since there are some state colors that need to be changed on the map since it hasn't been updated in a long time.

Along with the state colors that need to be changed below, I included some sources.

Alaska -- Explicitly includes health care coverage related to gender transition (Red to Blue) [1 ]

Delaware -- Explicitly includes health care coverage related to gender transition (Gray to Blue) [2 ]

Florida -- Explicitly excludes health care coverage related to gender transition (Gray to Red) [3 ]

Georgia -- Explicitly includes health care coverage related to gender transition (Red to Blue) [4 ]

Kentucky -- Explicitly excludes health care coverage related to gender transition (Gray to Red) [https://transhealthproject.org/resources/medicaid-regulations-and-guidance/kentucky/explicit-exclusion/#:~:text=Kentucky%20Medicaid%20policy%20excludes%20transgender%2Drelated%20health%20care. [5] ]

North Dakota-- Explicitly includes health care coverage related to gender transition (Gray to Blue) [6 ]

West Virginia -- Explicitly includes health care coverage related to gender transition (Red to Blue) [7 ] Squazyzilla (talk) 20:28, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Feedback on Vector (2022) conversation
Hello! As a member of WikiProject Usability, I wanted to draw your attention to a conversation currently underway on WP:VPR (see the beginning of the discussion) around adopting Vector 2022 as the new default skin.

The Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on Vector 2022 for the past three years, collaborating with the English Wikipedia community as well as other wikis to ensure that the skin performs better qualitatively and quantitatively for readers and communities than the previous Vector skin. The goal of the new skin is to create a more welcoming and easier to use experience for readers and editors across the wiki. For more details, see our new FAQ.

For the past couple of months, we have collected thoughts from the English Wikipedia community on what changes need to be made to the skin prior to it being considered ready for deployment. Our next step would be to start an RfC to assess whether the community considers Vedtor 2022 ready.

Prior to the beginning of the RfC, we wanted to draw your attention to the current conversation and encourage your feedback on the skin.

Thank you, OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

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Campaigns Product Update #4
Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers! We are excited to share our updates:


 * Event Registration v0


 * We have successfully launched Event Registration tool V0 on beta cluster and collected feedback from the first batch of testers. This tool is part of a more comprehensive organizing solution, the Event Center, which hopes to support movement organizers. Through this registration solution, organizers can collect useful data on campaign participants and their needs while respecting participant privacy.


 * Testing update. In our first round of feedback collection, testers were composed of different types of organizers around the movement with a language focus on Arabic, French, English, and Swahili communities. Most of the testers successfully created their test event registrations and signed up for a test event registration created by other organizers. Simple, easy to use, and aids in managing event participants were the common feedback we received from first-time users. In contrast, access and proper localization of the tool were the points for improvement identified. We are working on V1, which will include communication support and integration with the Programs and Event Dashboard. This will be released on Meta-Wiki soon. We hope to address accessibility during this launch and improve localization problems once the tool has been deployed in local wikiprojects.


 * The tool is still available for testing on the beta cluster. Feel free to leave feedback on our project talk page or this form.


 * Organizer Lab Looking for a way to learn how to effectively organize around sustainability? Join the beta version of the Organizer Lab on WikiLearn to understand how to effectively organize a global campaign around sustainability and climate change! Applications are open from September 22 - October 19, 2022. The Organizer Lab will be a 9-week online learning experience from the end of October until mid December that prepares participants to obtain knowledge about the topics that they wish to create, a call to action for strategic knowledge gaps, as well as more generalized Wikimedia organizing and campaign/event design skills.
 * Read more about the program!

What's Next:


 * Organizer Lab Information Session. We invite you to join our information session for the Organizer Lab on September 30, 2022 at 14:00 UTC via Zoom. Join this session!


 * Organizer User Rights. We are reaching out to a pool of administrators from Arabic, French and Swahili communities to collect feedback on what is the best way to define organizer user rights, what privileges to give to community organizers, and what are the limitations of these privileges. Feel free to reach out to our product ambassadors or send an email to ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org if you are interested to be part of these conversations.

Community Feedback: "Participants have been always asking the organizers are asked by participants whether they are registered, now participants will just look directly if they are registered, Thank you for creating the system" - French Organizer

“I think that the platform will facilitate the process of promoting events and searching for participants” - Arabic Organizer

Thank you!

The Campaigns Product Team

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Phabricator and MediaWiki task of the day :-)
Hey Owen, I asigned you to a shared task as co-mentor. Now please check it today and follow this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors Should I just email or telegram you these notices? --Zblace (talk) 07:59, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
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Typo?
I think you just made typo in this edit? Is it supposed to say "Georgi" instead of "Georgia"? It looks like typo so if that's the case please correct, thanks. LeontinaVarlamonva (talk) 23:06, 5 October 2022 (UTC)


 * @LeontinaVarlamonva Thank you, it was indeed a typo, corrected now. OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me in replies) 23:23, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Lack of faith in the community
I'm surprised to see your lack of faith in the community about a re-RFA given that just the editors who commented saying she should be desysoopped would be enough to tank any kind of RfA. I wish this had never happened for so many reasons I have been incredibly heartened by the overwhelming condemnation of these comments. It tells me that this is not the same English Wikipedia community of a few years ago. Frankly I think the community is more likely to enact Tamzin's suggestion of a community ban than it is to support a re-RfA. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @Barkeep49, Thanks for the message, and the optimism it contains. I do hold out some hope that you're right — and I'm heartened by the groundswell of support for serious censure against hate.
 * There have been so many occasions where the Movement in general had disappointed in that regard — and more than a few where privileged functionaries of this community have done so in particular — that I'll cross my fingers but not hold my breath.
 * But — genuinely — thank you for the message and its optimism. You're certainly right to point that out to me. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me in replies) 23:48, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

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Campaigns Product Team Office Hour - December 2022
Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers!

The Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team invites you to join our upcoming office hours. In each session, we will introduce V1 of Event Registration Tool, so you can begin using it for real events on Meta-wiki.

In V1, the following new features will be includedː Office Hour Sessions:
 * Support for the organizer to specify an event timezone
 * Automatic confirmation emails after participants have registered
 * Private registration: the option for participants to register and only display their registered username to organizers of the event and we will teach you how you can use it yourself.
 * 1st Session: December 5, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC via Zoom
 * 2nd Session: December 10, 2022 @ 12:00 UTC via Zoom
 * Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!

These office hours will be multilingual, with live interpretations in Arabic, English, French, and Swahili. Email us @ ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org or sign-up here if you want to receive a reminder for this meeting. Thank you.

The Campaigns Product Team

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox treaty/TemplateData
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