Programs & Events Dashboard/Using the Dashboard/Basics

Basics

Logging in

Welcome & Purpose of the Dashboard (1 of 5)

The platform uses OAuth to login into the platform with your global Wikimedia account.

If you click on the “Sign up” icon without an activated Wikipedia account, you will be taken to a page Wikipedia to sign up for a Wikipedia account. In this case, once you create the account and approve the use of OATH, you will be taken back to the Dashboard.

If you have a Wikipedia account and click on the “Log in” button, you are taken to Wikipedia to log in, then OAuth will ask for permission for the Dashboard to interact with pages using your account. Once you’ve logged in you are taken back to the Dashboard.

‘’Note’’: the OAUTH permissions ask for to “Interact with pages -Edit existing pages; Create, edit, and move pages” -- This feature is rarely used, and is not very substantive in the current iteration of the tool.

Navigating the dashboard

Note the Explore and My Dashboard tabs in the top left of the interface

Most of the activities that you will need can be found under the “My Dashboard” tab. The tab name is displayed in the top left of the page. This tab provides a portal for all pages that you have joined, as well giving you the opportunity to create new programs.

The first tab at the top, “Explore”, gives the opportunity for exploring existing programs, and finding and clicking through to those event’s campaign pages. You can browse all active programs from this tab, and use various filters to sort and search through the events.

The second tab at the top, “My Dashboard”, allows for the exploration of programs that you are involved in in some way. The tab also allows you to create programs, and find programs to participate in.

Changing interface language

The default interface language for the dashboard is in English or the language in which your browser communicates as a preference.

In the top right of the interface, next to the Log-out and User-name buttons, you can find the language switcher

To change the language interface, go to the upper right hand corner of the page, and click on the drop down button. The tool uses the same sort of universal language selector that Wikipedia uses.

So far, almost every language script that has been tested on the platform has worked correctly. To translate the interface into more languages, see The Project on Translatewiki If your script is not displaying correctly, please report it by emailing dashboardwikimediaorg or submitting a bug on Phabricator.