CentralNotice/Request/Arabic topic container design

Arabic topic container design

• Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 23:58, 10 February 2022 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 21 March 2022 → 28 March 2022 (it might be possible to shorten this) Which projects will you be targeting? Arabic Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? Arabic (only) Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly? Logged-in users, preferably people who make an average of >1 edit/month. Desktop users only, if that's possible. What countries will your campaign target? Worldwide Banner/Campaign Diet: To be determined by Central Notice admin Reaching 25% of qualifying editors should be plenty.

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - The next step in the mw:Talk pages project is to make it easier for editors to use talk pages by providing discussion-specific information (e.g., how many editors participated in a discussion) and by making talk pages not look like articles (in the hope that newcomers will figure out what the pages are for). We need to get non-English speakers to look at some ideas and tell us what's wrong with them. This is the first of several similar requests we are planning.

Metrics - the number of people who submit feedback about the prototype (hoping for 20!)

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners - File:Wikimedia talk page empty state graphic.svg plus the following Arabic text (see phab:T301594):

نحتاج إلى رأيك! ساعدنا في تحسين صفحات النقاش من خلال مشاركة الملاحظات حول تصميم جديد لعناوين الأقسام.

(Translation: We need your opinion! Help us improve talk pages by sharing feedback about a new design for section headings.)

Landing Page - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Prototype/Topic_Containers/ar?uselang=ar for the first banner; later changed to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Prototype/ar?uselang=ar

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - none

Link to grant - none

Discussion

User:PPelberg (WMF) and I have just started talking about the specific requirements, but I wanted to get this on wiki without any further delay. Since we want to get on-wiki responses, it might make sense to limit this banner to slightly more experienced editors (e.g., with 10+ monthly edits?). This should run at some normal, sensible rate.

User:Dyolf77 (WMF), this shouldn't require anything to be posted to arwiki, except perhaps one brief announcement on 28 February or 1 March to say that it's happening/give the link for anyone who missed the banner. I hope you will have time to help with translating the target page into Arabic.

It's possible that this will be delayed, but I think I can safely promise that it won't happen any sooner than this. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:59, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Central Notice admin comments

Campaign was set and completed. -- Ата ^(talk) 09:52, 30 March 2022 (UTC)