User story:
As Growth's Product Manager, I want to investigate the technical feasibility of enabling selected Growth features (including select Newcomer Homepage modules and Mentorship) on Wikidata, so that we can determine what work is required to support newcomers on Wikidata.
As a Contributor to Wikidata, I want to explore whether Growth features can help onboard and retain new editors, because the Wikidata community needs additional contributors to sustain and scale the project’s work.
Details:
Determine whether Wikidata could enable the GrowthExperiments extension with minimal effort.
Review technical dependencies of select Growth features:
- Email module (start module)
- Mentorship module
- Mentor Dashboard
- Get help with editing module
- Help panel
- Community Updates module
- Impact module (I assume the page views metric wouldn't be very meaningful... but would it work?)
Provide a list of potential blockers and unknowns and (very) rough estimate of effort for the Growth team (assuming we handle the deployment but not community consensus building).
Growth features that would NOT be included in a MVP Wikidata release:
- Help panel (After discussion with WMDE it sounds like the Help Panel might be useful to Wikidata as well)
- Suggested Edits (and all associated features like structured tasks & positive reinforcement & get started notificationss, etc.)
- Welcome Survey
Acceptance Criteria:
A short engineering report or Phabricator task breakdown summarizing:
Feasibility of enabling each Growth feature on Wikidata & Open questions for Wikidata stakeholders
- or -
✅ releasing GrowthExperiemnts features to wikidata.beta to allow for testing
