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Capacity Exchange Projesi (2023-2025 +1)
Haziran 2023 itibariyle, projenin yeni aşaması başladı. Ağustos ayında, dikkatli bir planlama yapıldıktan sonra teknik gelişmeler başladı. Dışarıya ulaşma etkinlikleri Eylül 2023'te başladı. Aralık 2023'ten Mart 2024'e kadar bir Outreachy stajından faydalandık. Nisan 2024'te frontend çalışan bir uygulama başklattık. Ağustos 2024'te ikinci aşamanın prototipini sunduk prototype.
Haziran & Temmuz
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Planning and Onboarding phase
Ağustos
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Start of Technical Development
Eylül
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Start of Community Outreach
Aralık
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Start of Outreachy Internship
Mart
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End of Outreachy Internship
Nisan
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Start of Frontend Implementation
Ağustos
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Prototype Launch at Wikimania
Eylül & Ekim
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Management transition
Ekim
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Technical Development Team Growth
Ekim & Kasım
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Refactoring of Technical Plan
Kasım
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Community Outreach Facilitators Onboarding
Kasım & Aralık
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Community Outreach and Testing Sessions
Ocak
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Development of software's new version and Team Growth
Şubat
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Budget update; Team Growth; Launch of new versions of User and Organization profile
Mart
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Launch of Software's New Version and Outreaching it
Nisan
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WMF agreement to integrate Let's Connect's profiles; Grant's Amendment - extra year
Nisan & Mayıs
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Refactoring of Outreach and Technical Plans - extra year
Mayıs
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Completion of all planned deliveries
Haziran
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Developing LC integration; End of cycle test and cleanup
Temmuz
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In-person Technical meeting and next steps planning
Temmuz & Ağustos
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Development and deployment of LC integration
Eylül
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Release of the Capacity Directory's translatable version; updated documentation
Ekim
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Let's Connect's clinics; development of new features; launch of Data Analytics page
Kasım
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Launch of Carousel of Suggestions feature & translation improvements
Aralık
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Development of Mentorship feature & Translation improvements
Geliştirme
Our technical plan guides our activities. The current version follows up its last versions, and aims to guide the third year of the second cycle of development, from June 2025 to June 2026. Before that, we followed the Technical Plan version 3.0, that was completed in June 2025.
At Wikimania 2024, we launched the CapX first version (capx.toolforge.org) for user testing. The Capacity Exchange team worked hard to incorporate all community feedback we received, and implemented a high-fidelity version in March 2025. Now, we are improving the available features and working to integrate it with more community activities.
Below are some project milestones for your acquaintance.
- Aralık 2023'te, CapX'in önceki pilot uygulamasını değerlendirmek, eksiklerini ve güçlü yönlerini belirlemek için odak grupları düzenledik. Bu değerlendirmeler, şu anda 2024'teki gelişim rotamıza yön veriyor.
- Aralık 2023'te CapX, Asist Capacity Exchange Geliştirmesi girişimi kapsamında Outreachy 27. Tur'dan bir stajyeri işe aldı. Staj sırasında, Wikimedia Hareketi'nin sosyoteknik altyapısını Küresel Güney perspektifinden (yeniden) hayal etmeye yönelik ortak çabamız için Lusophone Teknolojik İstek Listesi projesiyle işbirliği yaptık. Staj Mart 2024'te sona erdi.
- Mart 2024'te, front end için sorumlu olan yeni bir yazılım geliştiricisiyle çalışmaya başladık, ve uygulama aşaması Nisan 2024'te başladı.
- Temmuz 2024'te CapX Çalışma Ekibi bir planlama toplantısı için São Paulo'da (Brezilya) toplandı. Ve Ağustos 2024'te, Polonya'daki Wikimania 2024'te capx.toolforge.org'u sunduk.
- In September 2024, we began the process of slowly transitioning Capacity Exchange's management. For two months, Andi Inácio and Amanda Jurno co-managed the project, before Andi stepped-out to pursue a PhD scholarship abroad.
- In October 2024, we concluded the process of selecting two new members of the CapX Technical Development team. We then started to onobard CapX's new front-end developer and designer UX/UI.
- Through the months of October and November 2024, the team refactored the Technical Plan, which follows up its second and first versions, and aims to guide the second cycle of the software development.
- In November and December 2024, we conducted focus groups to assess the CapX current version and identify its gaps and strengths. Currently, the team is engaged in incorporating all community feedback into a fresh version of the software. In December, the CapX Working Team convened in São Paulo (Brazil) for a planning meeting.
- During January 2025, the development team worked non-stop to develop a full new version of the software. Another developer was brought in to help us make a great tool for the community.
- In February 2025, we asked for a budget update that allowed us to bring along another developer and another outreach facilitator. Before that, we deployed part of the software's new version in which users can see and edit their own profiles, and the profile of the organizations they administrate.
- In March 2025, the development team launched the software's new version. By sending emails to nearly 300 key-Wikimedians, the Outreach Facilitators collectively spread the word about it throughout the Movement. We also published a Diff and produced a unique promotional video.
- An agreement to proceed with the integration of Let's Connect profiles and Capacity Exchange was signed in April 2025 by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Brasil. To be able to consolidate this integration with Let's Connect, and have clarity about the project's future coordination, WMF used a grant amendment to extend the project iteration by one year. Consequently, the Capacity Exchange project will continue to be coordinated by Wikimedia Brasil until June 2026.
- During April and May 2025, the team refactored both the Outreach Plan and the Technical Plan for the extra year to guide the activities during the next extra 12 months. The first document contains sensitive information and, therefore, is private.
- Throughout May 2025, the Technical Plan v.3.0 final deliverables were the focus of the development team's efforts. With pride, we can say that we completed everything that was planned, leaving the code clean and open for anyone to use.
- On the development side, the month of June 2025 was dedicated to testing and cleaning up the code. The team also worked on the integration of Let's Connect profiles, with the feature that automates the filling out of information by former members of the initiative. Additionally, we worked on organizing the project's documentation so we could publish a Diff post to communicate to the community about our efforts and achievements, and the report at the end of the Grant's second year.
- The month of July 2025 was dedicated to organizing the development team, resolving pending issues so that the new cycle could begin smoothly and without any loose ends. At the end of the month, we held an in-person technical session where the team outlined next steps in development, and defined priorities and a work schedule for the upcoming months.
- During July & August 2025, we continued the development and carried on the deployment of the Let's Connect profile integration, fixing several minor bugs reported by the community since the last release.
- September 2025 was an important month for the CapX's development. Besides actively responding to feedback from LC participants and correcting some minor errors on the feature, we launched the long-awaited directly translatable version of the Capabilities Directory. With this improvment, users can easily translate the capacities and their description on MetaBase or through the Meta-Wiki translation tool. This has made it even easier to contribute to the linguistic expansion of the tool, making it even more inclusive.
- Throughout October 2025, we began planning new features with some partners and launched the new Data Analysis page, where it is possible to browse the data from the CapX user database. We also conducted two clinic sessions with the Let's Connect team to present our partnership and the special feature we created for them within the tool.
- In November 2025, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Volunteer Supporters Network Hub and the EduWiki Hub to formalize our partnership. We also launched a new feature called the Carousel of Suggestions, which displays possible matches on the user’s CapX homepage. We improved the ways of translating the tool and its Capacity Directory to prepare ourselves for the Translat-a-thon in partnership with the Language Diversity Hub.
- In December 2025, the team worked on the development of the Mentorship feature and on improving the tool’s and Capacity Directory's translation. We also took the opportunity to conduct usability and page load speed tests, in addition to implementing other minor improvements across the platform.
Küresel erişim
Dışarı ulaşma faaliyetleri (toplulukla iletişim, stratejik toplantılar ve odak grupları gibi), Wikimedia Hareketi'nde farklı önemli paydaşlara danışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Amacımız, Wikimedia'nın çağdaş öğrenmeye dayalı topluluk kapasitesi geliştirme için önerilen sosyo-teknik çözümle ilgili ihtiyaçlarını ve bakış açısını değerlendirmek. Devam eden görüşmelerimizin amacı, pilot platformlarımızla ilgili geri bildirim toplamak ve böylece mevcut özellikleri geliştirmek ve yeni özellikler eklemektir.
Dışa erişim kolaylaştırıcı organizatörleri aşağıdaki etkinliklerde Capacity Exchange'i tanıttılar:
- WECUDI (La Plata, Argentina)
- CEE Toplantısı (Tbilisi, Georgia)
- WikiConvention francophone (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
- Wiki Kadınlar Kampı (New Delhi, India)
- Glam Wiki (Montevideo, Uruguay)
- Wikimedia Zirve 2024 (Berlin, Almanya)
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 (Tallinn, Estonia)
- Wikimedia Europe General Assembly 2024 (Prague, Czech Republic)
- Wikimania 2024 (Katowice, Polonya)
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 (Istanbul, Turkey)
- WikiConvention Francophone 2024 (Québec, Canada)
- WikiIndaba 2024 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- WikiSource Conference 2025 (Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia)
- Wikimedia Europe General Assembly 2025 (Hybrid | Prague, Czech Republic)
- ESEAP Community Call, April 2025 (Online)
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2025, (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Festa da Wikimedia em Português, (Online)
- Youth Conference 2025 (Prague, Czech Republic)
- EduWiki Conference 2025 (Bogota, Colombia)
- WikiCon Brasil 2025 (Salvador, Brazil)
- Wikimania 2025 (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic – September & October 2025 (Online)
- CapX Translat-a-thon: Many Tongues, One Movement - Voices Across Languages (Online)
Capacity Exchange Projesi (2021-2022)
Capacity Exchange'in ilk aşaması Vikimedist bir gönüllü grubun çalışmalarıyla Wikimedia Avrupa Affiliate toplantısında konuşulmasından sonra başladı. Bu grup, girişimin konseptini, taksonomisini ve pilot platformunu formüle etti.
Çalışma grubu, Capacity Exchange'in ilk aşamasında, OER Dünya Haritası'na dayanan bir pilot yazılım geliştirdi. Bu pilot, ilgili ve gelecekte katılacak kullanıcılardan oluşan küçük bir grup tarafından test edildi ve sonrasında gruptan ilk geri bildirimler alındı.
Etkinlikler çokmerkezlileşirken, projenin platformuyla ilgilenme görevi 2022 Kasımı itibariyle Brezilya Vikimedya Hareketi'ne geçmeye başladı.Yeni aşama için proje teklifi daha sonra MSIG'ye sunuldu.
Trans-localizing its activities, the platform care started to be transitioned to Wiki Movimento Brasil, as of November 2022. The project proposal for the new phase was then presented to the MSIG.