Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire
Inspire
Inspire Campaigns are month-long events to focus collaborative efforts on some of the most pressing challenges of the Wikimedia movement. This is a time to share and create new ideas.
After the campaign, grants are available to turn these ideas into collective action. For projects that do not need funding, planning and logistical support are available.
In this campaign, we invite your ideas on how to measure the health of your editing community.
Healthy projects promote high quality content creation, respectful collaboration, efficient workflows, and effective conflict resolution. Patterns of experiences that result in editor frustration, poor editor retention, broken workflows, and unresolved conflicts can be seen as unhealthy.
As a movement, Wikimedians have always measured aspects of their communities. Data points such as editor activity levels, new users, and editor retention are regularly collected. While these metrics provide some useful indications about the health of a project, they do not give major insights into challenges and specific areas needing improvement.
We need to collect data that evaluate projects holistically, like overall editing stats, but we also need to measure the smaller, specific circumstances and processes that editors encounter in their work.
If you have ideas on how to measure community health, please share them during the current campaign!
Questions about this campaign or Inspire Campaigns generally? Please review the FAQ page.
New ideas
Health rating radio button template on talk pages
last updated: 22 October 2018
Create a template named “TP_Health” or similar. When placed at the top of a talk page it allows users to rate the health of a page according to non specific criteria....
created by: User:Edaham
Identify and quantify toxic users
last updated: 22 October 2018
Toxic users seem to be a source of demotivation for conflict-averse users which then discontinue editing. By having a measure, administrators and arbcoms could target these users specifically with a set of behavioral rules containing possible sanctions....
created by: User:Ghilt
Measure replacement rate among the admins
last updated: 05 October 2018
A community has an influx of new editors, and also an influx of admins. The first normalized against the later should be above a given threshold, otherwise something strange is going on....
created by: User:Jeblad
Email inactive (formerly active) users with a survey on inactivity reasons
last updated: 04 October 2018
In a survey the adressed inactive and formerly active users could state their personal reason for their inactivity. This only adresses retention of users, not the acquisition. The answers should be categorised in non-wikipedia-related and wikipedia-related. Further categorisation could be conflict, loss of interest, personal agenda achieved......
created by: User:Ghilt
Assembly line editing
last updated: 01 October 2018
Rather than one editor being responsible for every aspect of an article, they may (if they so choose) instead focus on the one thing they are good at. When each editor chooses their lane, they become more efficient at it, and it encourages collaboration....
created by: User:Coin945
Identify knowledge or skill bottlenecks
last updated: 28 September 2018
In many projects of the Wikiverse, there are single or very small groups of users which are the only ones to possess a required knowledge or skill. This is most obvious for skills such as operation of a bot, fixing and creating templates or adjusting editing filters. Non-technical skills are e.g. the creation of maps or diagrams. This is problematic for at least two distinct reasons: On the one hand, it places pressure on these users to continue providing their knowledge or skill to their community which can quickly become a burden. On the other hand, when these users are absent temporarily or leave permanently, vital parts or workflows of the project cease to function. This is again most obvious when e.g. a vital bot stops working, but is true for all other knowledge and skill bottlenecks....
created by: User:Cirdan
Identify potential collaborators-group via past articles and contributions
last updated: 27 September 2018
This idea is about getting crossed information about contributors about their centers of interest via the pages they wrote or contributed to, then propose a group of potential users ("group") sharing the same interest they could join or be notified about ("social media functionnality") (same pages written and contributed) to make they talk, exchange and work on some collaborative project: i.e: "you are interested in old cars articles ? let us create, document, or translate a page about old cars pages together"...
created by: User:Tomdast87
Article quality improvement rate
last updated: 27 September 2018
Use ORES (Wikimedia's machine learning web service) to regularly score the quality of an article to measure the improvement of the article over time. This article quality improvement rate would be useful for editing communities around single articles, but could also form the basis for a combined improvement score for WikiProjects and task forces....
created by: User:Qono
Upgraded Blocked User Reinstatement System
last updated: 15 September 2018
There should be a specific system in place to guide users through the unblocking process. The closest thing to this is the standard offer, but it is far from perfect. Instead of vague blocks with an "indefinite" expiration, there should be specific protocols in place to determine whether a user should be unblocked, and the user should be made knowledgeable of how those protocols work so that they can best understand how to facilitate their reinstatement....
created by: User:Just A Regular New Yorker
From AfC to DYK
last updated: 15 September 2018
What portion of articles that pass AFC eventually are nominated for DYK?...
created by: User:Rotideypoc41352
What's wrong with Wikipedia?
last updated: 15 September 2018
There are lack of contributors in my country. I want to run a survey in order to understand the issue and to propose good solution(s) that bring more contributors from my country in the project....
created by: User:I JethroBT (WMF)
Measuring consensus for decision-making processes
last updated: 08 September 2018
Provide a way for editors involved in a decision-making process (AfD, RfC, Admin Noticeboard) to report how satisfied they were with the outcome of the process....
created by: User:Augurar
Create a comprehensive set of metrics
last updated: 07 September 2018
The first step to improving is measuring, so the first thing to do is develop a set of metrics and reports. In addition, an editor survey....
created by: User:Gcanyon
Backlogs
last updated: 07 September 2018
Is the work actually being done, or is it piling up?...
created by: User:MER-C
Reminders to know when you need to stop and take a rest
last updated: 06 September 2018
In the Spanish Wikipedia exists a description of a number of symptoms, commonly known as "Wikipedia disease", a set of behaviors linked to particularly lengthy sessions of Wikipedia editing. You and I have found ourselves at 3 AM editing and finding an appropriate source, finishing a hard work session behind a category, maybe trying to have the last argument on a discussion... What is the maximum healthy amount of work that an average person can perform, according to scientific evidence? How many edits were made by a burned-out person, with warped perceptions of reality due to fatigue, loneliness, isolation, or the simple need for Wikipedia to be the only thing in the world? What happens if, with the help of experts, we can design an add-on that can remind Wikipedians about basic necessities like resting, going around, looking at something other than the screen, drinking water, sleeping, or getting out to real world? This could be based on the calculation of bytes added, on the session length, on the days and hours that the person has been sitting down editing? A series of messages could make a difference....
created by: User:ProtoplasmaKid
Editor rescue
last updated: 05 September 2018
When an editor is blocked or banned, every effort should be made to 'rescue' them and allow them to contribute. We could call it the editor rescue squad or something similar. We abandon many editors once they have experienced a block or ban and assume that they are not open to change and improvement. On the English Wikipedia, we should have a safe, non judgmental space where experienced and kind-hearted editors will help those blocked or banned to recover from their blocks or bans and help them develop the editing skills they will need to move on and become productive once again. Since this would be a safe space, I do not think that it should be viewable by anyone who has been involved in the block or ban for the editors....
created by: User:Barbara (WVS)
Measure number of active editors
last updated: 30 August 2018
See commons: Category:Wikimedia active editor statistics. Every idea should be measured in how it effects the number of active editors....
created by: User:Timeshifter
Small-scale bias correction
last updated: 27 August 2018
Smaller articles often tend to be biased because they are written by one person only....
created by: User:Shibe08
Longitudinal study of new user experiences
last updated: 27 August 2018
For a small cohort of new users, identify all the interactions relevant to editor loss and retention over a six month period. Follow up with interviews....
created by: User:LukeSurl
Editornoia
last updated: 26 August 2018
Skill mapping of editors in 3 steps...
created by: User:Raavimohantydelhi
create a general time-based dynamic overview of various issues and topics
last updated: 20 August 2018
we need a new type of article to provide an overview for a particular issue area for a particular time period, i.e. enivornmental overview for 2018, economic overview, etc etc...
created by: User:Sm8900
Separate conflicting users instead of punishing
last updated: 17 August 2018
For the abuse filter, a parameter is needed to set-up a user separation filter, where 2 conflicting users or user groups cannot edit a page for a certain time period after the other has edited a page. See phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125723 Ticket 125723...
created by: User:Ghilt
Multidimensional EPR (Earned Public Reputation)
last updated: 12 August 2018
The overall health of the Wikipedia community is a reflection of the health of the individual members, so it should start with a meaningful metric of the people who contribute to Wikipedia....
created by: User:I JethroBT (WMF)
Dark Theme
last updated: 11 August 2018
The user can choose the night mode or the classic mode to improve the comfort of the eyes....
created by: User:Nicolas2303
Wikimedia 2.0
last updated: 11 August 2018
I believe the Wikimedia project as a whole needs to be improved. It seems as if it hasn't been updated since 2009. It's bland, linear, and hard to digest in it's current state. However, social education is on the rise and Wiki needs to be it's backbone; With an project-wide open-source update, we can do it....
created by: User:Kinqsly
Improve Page Style Add Reader mode
last updated: 10 August 2018
Wikipedia's page is completely white, it contains blue light also, its injurious for our eyes so I think to improve page style which is more comfortable for our eyes. Add Reader mode....
created by: User:Subhraniltah
Check how many edits done by users are deleted and how many old users are "guarding" articles from any change, or deleting new stuff added by unlogged users
last updated: 10 August 2018
Wikipedia should study the fact that nearly EVERY edit done by IP is reverted. Those who have accounts (especially for a long time) wrongly believe that they own wikipedia - and they push out every other contributor, because they simply delete every edit. They often give ridiculous excuses to delete things (for examples: if they dont like the source, they delete the edit). If they are so interested in sources for stubs, maybe they should go and delete poorly sourced articles? Another problem is that if one even manages to edit an article, then you have to "guard" it forever, because your changes will be reverted in a week or two by people whose activity is just deleting stuff. Many of them even BOAST about how many items they deleted from the site: changes (often thousands) or articles (hundreds). This means that hundreds of people who tried to contribute were burned - and their contributions, discarded. This is very discouraging to try to do anything in this "community" - which in fact seems to be more of a clique of old timers, who seem to try to everything possible, to push away new people. After all, the old timers are "proven", while in reality they did hundreds of reverts, or small changes - and most of true wikipedia was written by IPs....
created by: User:Cambr5
Join Good Health Army for Witting Good Content for Wikipedia.
last updated: 10 August 2018
We are build the Local wiki Guide Community for Promote at Local address . we are supporter online from our state and Our Country. we can build a community for sharing knowledge with all juniors ....
created by: User:Nareshprajapatmogra
Percentage of abandoned articles metric
last updated: 10 August 2018
It would be great to be able to track what proportion of the articles in a wiki haven't had a single edit in the last year (or last 6 months, or 2 years, etc). The health of a community should be measured not only by its content creation, but also the capacity of the wiki to maintain existing articles....
created by: User:FDans (WMF)
measure the gain of quality on added value articles broken down according to well-chosen criteria
last updated: 10 August 2018
Using Content assessment and edit sizes to measure the gain of quality on added value articles ==> the community health...
created by: User:Pline
Talk Page Moderation Assistant
last updated: 09 August 2018
Having a system to facilitate talk page moderation that can 1) list discussions that are highly likely toxic, encouraging volunteers to take actions to discourage toxic behavior to limit further damage; 2) allow easier investigations for administrators into the reported cases of personal attacks, by providing text search functionality for a given author....
created by: User:PaigePhault
Depoliticize historical pages
last updated: 09 August 2018
Identify specific historical pages that contain information relevant to today's political discourse and ensure their verity and eliminate single author bias in favor of historical fact...
created by: User:Andrewwegge
Measure administrative mistakes
last updated: 09 August 2018
The mistakes that administrators make, and in particular the occurrances where they bend the rules out of rage against a specific user they don't like, must be counted, in order to counteract an arbitrary tyrannic rule over Wikipedia....
created by: User:Mathmensch
Make non-article additions (citations, categories, etc) easier
last updated: 09 August 2018
I recently created an article (Consolidated Third) and struggled getting all the references and categories properly hooked up. I started on Wikipedia in 2003 back when this was all much simpler. The process needs to be simplified greatly as it's a barrier to newer users and users who do not edit often....
created by: User:Nickjbor
Vet all new editors
last updated: 09 August 2018
The quality of editing by some editors is abysmal. There are some pretty basic skills that are lacking by some users and vetting should weed out any recruits who end up wasting the time of the rest of the community....
created by: User:Alan Liefting
Monitoring of new editors - Analyzes of the editing behavior of new users in the German Wikipedia
last updated: 09 August 2018
The decade-long decline of authors in German Wikipedia is a clear signal of unhealthy conditions in this community project. An analysis of the editing behavior of new Wikipedians should help to show ways to overcome this bad situation....
created by: User:Dr. Bernd Gross
Editing and translating tutorial
last updated: 08 August 2018
Create just a good and complete video tutorial about how to edit and translate wikipedia articles describing and explaining the basic technical procedures. This tutorial could be find in youtube and would be done by quality staff from wikipedia....
created by: User:Dalanuch
Classify abandoned and new articles by importance
last updated: 08 August 2018
Create a classification for abandoned articles (or not completed or without references) and new ones (links not yet created) based on their importance (number of researches of the item in the Web, for example in Google search, or other parameters). It would be fantastic creating a competition with prices (t-shirts or pens, cheap stuff), where the most active member awards a price. It is also possibile to organize open days in some cities, where experts and active members explain some topics to people, like TedEd, but from a more professional point of view....
created by: User:Itatem
Automated and customizable widgets for Portals, wikiprojets and community pages
last updated: 08 August 2018
Various communities of the Wikimedia projects created technically limited "box-like" Templates to mimic with more or less success appearance and mechanics of widgets (GUI). They are used on various pages like portals, wikiprojects, talk pages, main page of the wiki, etc....
created by: User:J. N. Squire
Better Communication for beginners
last updated: 08 August 2018
When people join wikipedia, all they wanted is to share information. Most of the time Wikipedia accept it but sometimes, it requires a lot of parameters and time to get the information passed to others. It's very hard for a beginner to understand what sort of content is allowed. Better place of communication would be very helpful for those who are not aware about the standards and parameters....
created by: User:MroPrashant
thesis - antithesis - snythesis
last updated: 08 August 2018
each article first presents thesis as general view-point, then alt-thesis which presents differing/alternate view-points , then maestros of that particular subject can present synthesis, especially maestros of spiritual topics, languages...
created by: User:Ombaba123456
Open Garbage
last updated: 07 August 2018
Many articles in pt are deleted without any logical criteria even if this article have being writen in other languages (Orange Pi for example). Professional bodies articles in Brasil are beeing deleted by the obscure none sense logical of the wikipedia revisor. Some articles are deleted others not deleted, no one could ever know why because the contente are the same. I propose that junk article could be marked as junk, fake, incomplete but could no longer being hidden from wikipedia. So, any one could start from that scrach to improved the quality of information provided....
created by: User:Mvdiogoce
Open the philosophy of the encyclopedia.
last updated: 07 August 2018
The only acceptable gauge of article is the rigid minimal facts everyone already knows....
created by: User:Hotspur
administrators' user page disclosures
last updated: 07 August 2018
Administrators should list on their user page a their expertise (e.g. what branch of history or computing science) and b if they have ever benefited from a Wikipedia grant....
created by: User:Pasimi
Contribution Scaling and Badges
last updated: 07 August 2018
A proper contribution scaling does indeed promotes the editors and also a badges can be given to the experts of different sectors like sports, biography in their regional or national or global category....
created by: User:Tsuren717
You Are Fake News
last updated: 07 August 2018
Stop allowing "established editors" to incorporate PEJORATIVES into the personal bios of individuals with "protected" pages; it doesn't belong on Wikipedia and it discredits you entirely. If you're going to lock editors out of making page edits, AT LEAST provide a reporting method that can be used repeatedly until the attention of a reasonable, adult, critically-thinking editor can be acquired. If you're going to let people tag political figures they dislike with pejorative remarks, at least leave the page open to ALL editors. Otherwise, YOU ARE FAKE NEWS and this daily reader will stop using (or promoting) your service. In the past, I have repeatedly, aggressively defended Wikipedia as a reasonable source, due to enforcement of critical thinking standards and the ability to quickly correct erroneous content. Now, you're making me regret that defense. Your job is NOT to enforce critical thinking among political pundits! Your job is to enforce critical thinking standards in _your own_ content. You're no longer accomplishing that task, based on my recent observation....
created by: User:Calmandcomfort
Survey of hostile experiences among new editors
last updated: 07 August 2018
The basic idea of this proposal is to conduct a survey of people who recently started editing Wikipedia, and to ask them whether they felt that an experienced editor acted too rude or hostile to them as a result of the new editor's edits. Ideally, such a survey would include both IPs and logged-in users, as well as both currently active and non-active users. But it wouldn't include vandals, of course, as they deserve to be treated with hostility. The main point of this proposal is to see whether newcomers are actually being bitten (in violation of en:WP:BITE) on a regular basis, thereby discouraging prospective good-faith contributors from sticking around....
created by: User:IntoThinAir
visual estimulation
last updated: 07 August 2018
add to the code more images no sustent the info, estimulate to new content on contemporary movements...
created by: User:Alybloomingdale
Allow users to rank articles on usefulness
last updated: 06 August 2018
Currently there is no real way to say "this article really helped me", or indeed provide feedback on the helpfulness of content other than through complex mechanisms which most users have no time for. As a consequence, other than page hits, there is no way to identify authors or groups of authors producing meaningful content. This could be solved through end user account linked editable per page/page topic ranking of content usefulness....
created by: User:BarryRobinson1964
User rating
last updated: 06 August 2018
Each user should have a rating/points/ranking/thanks...
created by: User:Leochato
Allowing users to create a following based on articles based on Wikipedia
last updated: 06 August 2018
Each users may use wikipedia at any point of time based on a particular need, for example to understand terminologies in Artificial Intelligence. Allowing users to group these requests a create a list of " Wikipedia bookmarks" grouped by tags selected by the user and allowing other users to follow these tags created by like minded users allow users to created a "repository" of all known terms in a particular subject and also encourages participation in any article that does not explain the term in the right manner....
created by: User:Sratneshwaran
Non-Partisanship
last updated: 06 August 2018
Articles on politics and political figures or on controversial sociopolitical issues are heavily biased liberally. This is intellectually dishonest and turns Wikipedia into nothing more than a propaganda site....
created by: User:NicholasSweeten
In sync
last updated: 06 August 2018
Everytime, an article is edited in one language, it might means there's an update, the editors of the article in other languages should also be notified of the update. So, that if its an important update, other language Wikipedias too get updated and all articles of the same name in different languages are in sync with each other....
created by: User:రహ్మానుద్దీన్
Measuring the health of an article
last updated: 06 August 2018
Don’t try to measure users, measure articles....
created by: User:Geke
Make sysops a technical role, but for real
last updated: 06 August 2018
Wikimedia policies say that sysops have a merely a technical role, and they just enforce consensus. But reality is much different: many procedures (like Articles for deletion) involve last word decision-making by sysops; when they think consensus is obvious, sysops are allowed to "be bold" and decide themselves; and that's not simply "applying the rules", because differents sysops come out with different decisions. Even when real discussion takes place, it is not uncommon that the case is enterely or mainly decided by sysops (that's to say, the same one who will enforce the decision). Not even in the wild west it was allowed to the same person to be, at the same time, sheriff and judge. What Wikipedia lacks is a separation of powers: those who decide should always be sharply divided from those who enforce decisions. No exception allowed....
created by: User:Una giornata uggiosa '94
Add tutorials in Wikipadia
last updated: 06 August 2018
My idea is to add a tutorial page, for programming for example....
created by: User:Bensuperpc
What do you want to name your idea?
last updated: 06 August 2018
Briefly summarize our idea in one sentence....
created by: User:Cars4me
Google Malayalam Typing Keyboard
last updated: 06 August 2018
Please include the Multilanguage keyboard to type. I mean Google Malayalam typing tools....
created by: User:Anymallucinema
Google Traslate in Content Traslation
last updated: 05 August 2018
I propose that google translate is added to content translation because the problems of apertium and yandex are very serious...
created by: User:Ignacio2403
enable everyday users (non-editors) to rate parts of the article
last updated: 05 August 2018
enable some "right-click" options to rate (with stars) any part of the article and optionally leave a comment to the authors. This feedback channel can be used to identify the weak parts. the idea is to engage more "non-editors" in the process of making high quilty articles....
created by: User:Saif Ali Abed
Creation of international ombudsman
last updated: 05 August 2018
One may be very frustrated with national community and its admins, and believes that they are wrong, in unnecessary restricting users in their contributions....
created by: User:Bluepossum
Get inspired by the Stack Overflow community gamification to strengthen Wikipedia contributing community
last updated: 04 August 2018
Stack Overflow has an impressive track record at developing gamification tools that motivate contributors with points and badges. Let's do the same on Wikipedia? This will help the Wikipedia community know itself better (who is doing what, who is good at what), create healthy cooperation incentive, etc....
created by: User:DavidBourguignon
Location tracking system
last updated: 04 August 2018
A Geo-location system where users can find locations of places by following directions illustrated with photographs...
created by: User:Atabong Armstrong
Health stated in their own words.
last updated: 03 August 2018
We can conduct an experiment or can use forms to find out what really bothering Wikimedia users. This experiment consists of a few basic questions, questions about why they are not using Wikimedia frequently. By this, we can understand the real problems and will do measures accordingly....
created by: User:BhushanPungliya
A Certificate Course in Editing and Level tests.
last updated: 03 August 2018
You can have a certification course for aspiring Editors. Once they became editors we shall have level( beginner, intermediate and expert) tests and have icon next to their name based on their level.That will help us to Measure the health of our editing community....
created by: User:Vannacharal
Pass The Exam
last updated: 03 August 2018
Before editing user must have pass some test......
created by: User:Monu4u1987
Aging of Articles
last updated: 03 August 2018
Apart from regularly creating high quality content, wiki editors must constantly keep reviewing submitted articles. Faster reviews would always ensure more content creation. One metric to measure the rate of reviews is the ageing of the submitted articles and average time taken to respond after changes are done to a rejected article....
created by: User:KSamriddhee
Revisiting health articles
last updated: 02 August 2018
There is a need to pay special attention to the articles of health conditions that pose danger to the wellbeing of communities, ex: life threatening (medical / dental) conditions, in English and other foreign Wikis. That being said, the editing style in most health pages in English tend to target the specialized / professional readers and not the lay-readers....
created by: User:Shaimaa Abdellatif
An "Edited by (name)" for registered users plus a diff of the changes done to the page
last updated: 01 August 2018
if for example i wrote a page about cats and sayd:...
created by: User:EnderNator10
Rated Ticket System with optional Achievements for the Gamification Freaks
last updated: 01 August 2018
Ticket system (comparable to Jira) + "peer review", aka users are rating tickets in their own field of expertise on a scale from 0 to 10 how important they are + Gamification (Achievements for certain milestones) = new number: Number of solved tickets with certain importance = Quality...
created by: User:MartinFleck
Build ethnical communities
last updated: 31 July 2018
Wikipedia projects tend to be centered on a specific language, and this pose a problem for small languages. Instead of building language specific projects we should build projects that support an ethnic group with all their languages....
created by: User:Jeblad
Syncing Articles across languages
last updated: 31 July 2018
There is no need of reinventing the wheel. If a change has been made in an article in a language which is a major edit, then the editors of the same article in other languages must be notified, So important details/new details are added fast. This prevents discrepancy in the same article across differernt languages. For this to be achieved, articles must be linked across different languages through a common identifier....
created by: User:Naveenzcherian
Take Responsibility
last updated: 29 July 2018
Aggregate all the feedback received into a set of unique metrics. Discount none....
created by: User:SmoothPorcupine
Point for authors
last updated: 29 July 2018
I am a programmer, who most of the time spend in Stack Overflow and I also edit in Wikipedia in my part-time and always wanted pointsPoints for each contributiuon so that we can see the credibility of a user in Wikimedia....
created by: User:TheProgrammerBoy
HBU Room
last updated: 28 July 2018
I am a blocked user on a wiki. I want to be given another chance, but my request is declined. I think that there should be a page to train blocked users to see if you can give them another chance....
created by: User:SandSsandwich
Reward for the regular contributors
last updated: 28 July 2018
Reward the regular contributors with a level of contribution....
created by: User:Hellohappy
Community review for potentially toxic users
last updated: 28 July 2018
Implement a flagging system that identifies potentially toxic users, and allow for user community reviews, up to once a year...
created by: User:Lonehexagon
Wikipoll
last updated: 28 July 2018
The main idea is to have a platform where polls are voted with comments and discussions...
created by: User:Abdeaitali
Location based editors
last updated: 28 July 2018
suppose the Article is related with Nepal , Then only Nepali editors will be allowed to make positive changed but can be reviewed by all editors...
created by: User:Rajan raj pandey
Online learning group for editing
last updated: 28 July 2018
Although people would like to contribute by translating and writing new contents, they have no experience and do not know where to start....
created by: User:Khinelay
Correct grammatical errors!
last updated: 28 July 2018
Correction of grammatical errors....
created by: User:Sashatrk
Function to disallow editing of certain users on a certain page for edit wars
last updated: 28 July 2018
A function to disallow editing for edit-warriors on a certain page but leave normal editing open to uninvolved editors....
created by: User:L293D
Graphs and charts
last updated: 27 July 2018
Like Genius.com or Github.com, show pretty graphs to visualize contributions...
created by: User:This-is-name
Visual Editor for Talk pages, Discussion pages, etc
last updated: 27 July 2018
Visual Editor for Talk pages, Discussion pages, etc...
created by: User:Shevonsilva
2 ideas
last updated: 27 July 2018
An idea for a one-off research project and to develop a set of metrics...
created by: User:Healthps
Encourage Editors To Keep Editing
last updated: 26 July 2018
By a system of rewards can be editing points so for example an editor has reached 30 edits in the course of the week you can credit them with 30 Wikitokens so they can use it for upgrading ranks within Wikimedia and Wikipedia like from Rookie Editor from Editor In Chief without impacting Wikimedia or Wikipedia... For me it is a system of incentive for editors to keep editing in Wikimedia or Wikipedia and expanding our universe of Amateur Editors and also Professional Editors that makes Wikimedia and Wikipedia a good place to gain knowledge....
created by: User:DeutscherFeuer
Allow Forking and Merging for Conflicting Scientific Schools and Approaches
last updated: 25 July 2018
Allow forking and merging of conflicting ideas and concepts presented in a wiki...
created by: User:Bert Niehaus
Reasons for Leaving (example idea)
last updated: 25 July 2018
This project will give a better picture of why contributors with strong editing histories choose to leave my project...
created by: User:I JethroBT (WMF)
Develop information technology advocate team to enhance qualifications of Wikipedia
last updated: 24 July 2018
Internet is rapidly developing and technologies have serious effort. Many people are lack of professional knowledge and confused about developing internet, which may limits Wikipedia's development. Wikipedia community need information technology advocate team to help improve ability of security and development....
created by: User:Phoenixchris
We are the World
last updated: 24 July 2018
Build a healthy global pipeline of future Wikipedian by teaching and nurturing high potential young users across the world to be part of building out this important resource. Create a training curriculum and special learning center for future Wikipedians to build meaningful skills in small consumable lessons that are age appropriate. Consider making this into a classroom activity, perhaps scaled for various ages or grades. Ideally we should build a pipeline that extends to all corners of the world, not just to economically leading geographies. It could be as simple as just making some easier training for youth, or as sophisticated as a full blown global campaign to recruit and nurture the best student candidates of today into tomorrow's editorial powerhouse. Perhaps even consider setting levels like WP/EIT (editor in training), where we can signal to the mature editorial community that we are in gentle guidance mode with the intention of finding and growing a healthy pipeline of the next generation of editors....
created by: User:Cindyjwilson
WikiYouths
last updated: 23 July 2018
This project should be targeted at getting Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) in Nigeria and elsewhere with verifiable track records of great performances get a Wikipedia page as this helps them to easily get funding and support to achieve more....
created by: User:Kolapoimam
Vanity detector
last updated: 23 July 2018
Provide to Wikimedia Community a resource for improving wikimedians inter-relation....
created by: User:Aainitio
Current health of Wikipedia editing community
last updated: 23 July 2018
Fact finding article. The goal is to locate the health then try to find remedy...
created by: User:BBabaru
A "New articles" Vote System...
last updated: 23 July 2018
Why not have an editors vote for/against changes in article?...
created by: User:Dimahagever
Auto linkage of article to other languages
last updated: 23 July 2018
If a new article is created in Language A, then if the creator linked it to Language B, it then should automatically update linkage to all the other languages automatically, no need to do the manual work for each language....
created by: User:CerberuS
Collective Sharing
last updated: 23 July 2018
Lets edit one at the time. If we need to change things, we neeed to support it by links, books, news or things so the information is legitimate....
created by: User:Azurich
Legacy Data
last updated: 22 July 2018
Help it to reach level of Wikimedia community, it's look wellness....
created by: User:Web SourceContent
FINDING collaborators is an uphill battle...
last updated: 21 July 2018
Why not implment a "Collaboration" heading on main pages and each portal page for users willing to join forces on a subject? Or was that what the 'Village Pump' was supposed to be? It would save much time and effort....
created by: User:Shir-El too
Grad der Kooperation durch Fragen zählen
last updated: 14 July 2018
Fragezeichen zählen zeigt Kooperationswillen...
created by: User:Edward Steintain
The current Inspire Campaign is closed. You are welcome to continue providing feedback, revising ideas, and moving any ideas that need funding into grant applications. Be sure to review guidance to develop your idea further.
Outcomes
The Inspire Campaign on Measuring Community Health had several successful outcomes, including:
- Strong participation in a more technical and research-oriented campaign (over 100 submitted ideas, and more than 240 participants who endorsed, commented on, or proposed ideas)
- Contributors from over 35 different countries – including some emerging communities – had ideas to measure community health represented in this campaign.
- Direct support of participants through proposal-specific guidance and support on idea talk pages by Community Resources and Trust & Safety teams.
- Broader support offered to all Inspire Campaign and IdeaLab participants through the development and sharing of guidance on how to develop ideas into concrete plan for implementation.
Some progress so far on ideas from this campaign includes:
- Measure replacement rate among the admins: This idea to collect new statistics on admin replacement resulted in some mock-ups of an interface based on the idea. It was submitted for a Project Grant proposal in the current round.
- Reminders to know when you need to stop and take a rest There is interest in collaborative work on this idea and develop a pilot project to encourage contributors to rest after long or intensive periods of editing.
- Health rating radio button template on talk pages: This proposal on identifying contentious discussion pages prompted a community discussion on English Wikipedia.
- Identify knowledge or skill bottlenecks: The idea creator on this proposal to evaluate and summarize skill gaps within Wikimedia projects is interested in applying for a Rapid Grant at a later time.
- Email inactive (formerly active) users with a survey on inactivity reasons: There was also some community support and interest in further developing this idea to survey inactive contributors to assess reasons why they went inactive.
For information on previous campaigns, please see the campaign archive.
