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Dashboard Updates

We are currently facing an issue with our dashboard, which is not updating as we expected. Despite regular checks and attempts to troubleshoot, the data displayed remains outdated, and we are unable to identify the root cause of the problem. Please we need assistance. Here is our Dashboard link: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_Kilimanjaro/There_Is_an_Error,_Fix_and_Contribute Justine Msechu (talk) 12:15, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Is there still something that isn't working as expected, or did it fix itself? It seems to be updated normally, at least recently. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Problem in a new dashboard

I created a new dashboard last week and it looks it's not updating. I've set subcategory depth = 3 for all entries but they are shown as 0. See yourself: [1]. Cheers, Jjanhone (talk) 06:35, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Ah! This uncovered a bug with the PagePile feature. I'll work on fixing it so that your event can update. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:06, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

I think I've worked around the bug and it updated without error, but it hasn't picked up any edits for your event yet. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:10, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! It has picked one edit now: Milla Vaahtera, [2]. It didn't pick e.g. two updates for Finnish authors which are shown here. I had added the category author, but as the depth = 0 and there are two steps to Finnish authors from authors, they were not included. Is it possible to add the depth to 3 like we had last year? Jjanhone (talk) 10:19, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Same here, when I set subcategory depth to 3 it shows 0. Nat (WDU) (talk) 13:40, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Tableau de bord ne se met pas à jour

Bonjour. J'ai créé un tableau de bord pour le SCD d'Aix-Marseille pour la campagne #1lib1ref de janvier-février 2025. Malgré des interventions hier (modifications, ajouts de références...), le tableau de bord n'indique aucune statistique. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/SCD_Aix-Marseille/Campagne_Wikip%C3%A9dia_2025_1_(15_Janvier-_5_F%C3%A9vrier_2025) Merci d'avance pour votre aide. NatSGrTB (talk) 08:46, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@NatSGrTB sur la page d'accueil de ton dashboard, il n'y a que en.wikipedia.org d'indiqué, il ne cherche donc les modifs que là bas alors que vous les avez faites sur fr.wikipedia.org, il faut donc faire un changement de ce côté là (il y a ensuite un délai pour la mise à jour, que je trouve un peu long cette année c'est pour cela que j'ai atterri ici car je me demandais si c'était que nous car notre tableau de bord ne bouge pas comme j'aurais attendu mais j'imagine qu'il faut être patient. Symac (talk) 17:50, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Merci !!! :) Ce n'est pourtant pas la première campagne que je mets en place...^^ On avait remarqué déjà l'année dernière la lenteur des mises à jour. A suivre... Bonne campagne ! NatSGrTB (talk) 15:13, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Tableau de bord et problème de mise à jour

Bonjour ! Itou je vois que notre tableau de bord a cessé de se mettre à jour quasiment après le démarrage du programme : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/uB_et_UFC/1Lib1Ref_UBFC_2025_session01_JanvierF%C3%A9vrier

De votre côté ça perdure ou c'est réglé ? Merci d'avance pour toute info ! Tameli (talk) 16:07, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Je confirme le même problème de notre côté. @Sage (Wiki Ed) there seems to be some issues with the queue of updates, could you have a look at it? Thanks. Symac (talk) 04:48, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

«Editatón Manolo Summers 20250118» doesn't update statistics

Hi:

I'm not sure if it is because I set something wrong but I can't have statistics for this course :-m Could you check it, please? Thanks in advance. —Ismael Olea (talk) 10:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

We also have issues with updates on our campaign as can be seen above, i assume something is not running correctly on the server, we need to wait for it to be fixed. Symac (talk) 15:30, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks :) —Ismael Olea (talk) 15:40, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

1Bib1Ref - 1Lib1Ref Canada 2025 dashboard

Hi,

The Wikimedia Canada 1lib1ref dashboard hasn't updated in several days. I see that there are a few other people having the same issue so just leaving this comment for posterity and hoping that the issue will be fixed soon :) Thank you! Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk) 18:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

The system was stalled for several days while I was traveling, but I've reset it and it should be catching up soon. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:34, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much @Sage (Wiki Ed)! - Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard very slow

Hi, I am experiencing difficulties to work with the Dashboard space. The students linked to this space are unable to do their work. This issue has persisted for several days/weeks. The problem is it expected to be resolved soon? The semester is already underway, and I am concerned about the impact on my class progress. Thank you so much for considering this issus. Orlane Dinas (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

ASSISTANCE WITH DASHBOARD

Good day

On January 31, 2025, our translation and editing workshop will come to an end. We have been having trouble with the dashboard because it takes days for it to refresh and show us the most recent statistics. Please help, as once we are finished, we will need to submit a report.

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home#

Regards Ntjalekesi (talk) 08:30, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard still documenting without reason

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/WMCH/Perforormance_Art_Edit-a-thon_Ticino_2024/home Helga Broll (talk) 15:33, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard Update

Good day

Today is the last day of our project; could you please help with updating of the dashboard?⁣

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home

We will greatly appreciate your help. ⁣ KeMang?? (talk) 07:15, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Is the dashboard down?

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T385477

I can't access the dashboard: page never finishes loading in different browsers, in computer and phone. Help appreciated! Nat (WDU) (talk) 12:59, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, phab:T385477 opened on this outage. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:53, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Subscribed to the ticket, thanks a lot! Nat (WDU) (talk) 13:55, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard s*cks!! KeMang?? (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard down

Good day

We have concluded our project; could you please help with update the dashboard?⁣

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Elandskop_Outdoor_Museum_Rhino_Heritage_Park/BaSesotho_200_Years_Project_Workshop_(2024)/home

We will greatly appreciate your help. ⁣ KeMang?? (talk) 14:44, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

• The dashboard site is now loading again. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:19, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

  No, nothing is still happening eight days later!⁣ KeMang?? (talk) 16:15, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard update

Hi, I think this dashboard was not updated. Is it possible to support me to see the metrics? Thank you very much.

Tania Solá (WMMX) (talk) 21:11, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

End of the event and dashboard update

@Sage (Wiki Ed) It seems that updates are not functionning, could you please have a look at it? The event 1Lib1Ref is finishing today, we are about to conclude our project by the end of the afternoon... Thand you in advance ! Tameli (talk) 10:37, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

1Lib1Ref standings in Indonesia January 2025

The standings have not been updated for two days. Please update so that participants know who is in the top three. Rizki Hidayatulloh (talk) 20:06, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Test page tour doesn´t work

When I click on https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikipedia-editieren/editieren-basiswissen/versuche-es at the button "Starte die Tour...", the tour cannot be completed because the following blue button has no function (no reaction after click):

Tested with Firefox on Windows 11 arm. Durin12 (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2025 (UTC) Update: Bug also occurs on https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikipedia-editieren/diskutieren-basiswissen/diskutieren-tour-01

Dashboard not capturing articles

Hello!

I started the I edit setswana Wikipedia Campaign last week Wednesday but there is nothing captured in the dashboard. What might be the cause of this? Kolobetsoo (talk) 10:35, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Is still not capturing what you expected? I see that the event successfully updated 5 days ago (and should update again this week), but if there's something specific that's missing, let me know and I will investigate. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:49, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not capturing edits

We have been making edits to the Campaign called "theground" and like others, we're not seeing any of this work reflected in the dashboard. Any ideas about why? Machadorobert (talk) 18:12, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Tracking problem editors back to an event

Is there any way to find out what events are running on a specific date? At Wikidata right now we're seeing a lot of new editors creating items related to Nigeria, but the editors don't appear to have received any training in notability or other policies and guidelines, so we're probably going to have to delete pretty much all of it. I'd like to be able to get in touch with the organizers. Bovlb (talk) 17:52, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bovlb I'm assuming you know a username. Try putting it in this link to see what events they are in: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/users/Bovlb (replace your name with theirs) — xaosflux ^Talk 18:24, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. That's super helpful. Many of the users are not registered, and many are anon, but I found two from this event. The facilitators seem to be @Jerry minor and @Iwuala Lucy. Bovlb (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Back to your original question, you can browse all the events on the dashboard but many are "open" for long periods of time and overlap with each other - so that might not help much with what you wanted to ultimately accomplish. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

The event continues to have activity. Both facilitators and 16 problem contributors have been contacted, but none have responded. Two of the contributors have now been blocked, and it looks like we'll be starting on mass deletions shortly.

On a related note, this RFC might be of interest as it proposes a way to fix this type of problem. Bovlb (talk) 21:19, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bovlb sorry to hear that, are the facilitators active on-wiki? Did you try them by email? — xaosflux ^Talk 23:29, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

It looks like only one of them (@Iwuala_Lucy) has been active on any project. Is it normal for facilitators to be inactive during events?

I have not emailed. We generally discourage email on-project and expect people to respond to pings and user talk messages. I've noticed that people on meta, including WMF staff, are very bad at responding, in some cases talking months to reply or simply disappearing from the project. Do you think I should be sending emails to tell people they have messages awaiting their attention? That should not be normal practice. Do you think that blocking the facilitators on the project would be enough to get their attention? Bovlb (talk) 00:07, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

If they are on-wiki contributions, a talk message on the project where the contributions are happening should be enough. Blocking likely won't get their attention if they are not on-wiki. I suspected they weren't onwiki, that's why I suggested dropping them an email - even if it is just something like "We think there is a problem related to your event, see your talk page here: xxxx". 00:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC) — xaosflux ^Talk 00:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. I don't really think it's acceptable behaviour to organize an event that causes problems and then fail to respond to pings and messages, but I have emailed them as you suggested.

On another note, do you know if there is any procedure for requesting that users lose facilitator privileges on the events dashboard? Bovlb (talk) 01:24, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Bovlb hopping in here to clarify. Contrary to the thought of not responding to notifications, you will notice that not much has happened from my and I had to squeeze out time to respond to this as I receive the email. Yes, there is a project ongoing of which I am to co-facilitate - I have not commenced on my role. I have reached out to @Jerry minor who will be in a more better position to respond to this enquiries. Iwuala Lucy (talk) 04:38, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Bovlb the articles were created from an off wiki interaction with some students from my academic class. I am surprised to see that most of them are doing the wrong thing. I have asked them to stop creating items while I meet up for a follow-up session. Thanks.Jerry minor (talk) 06:30, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Most of the items have now been deleted. Bovlb (talk) 04:05, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating

Hello. Some of the tabs of the dashboard aren't updating. Here is the link to my event dashboard: Work Experience for High School Students If it wasn't for the Activity tab clearly showing activity, then I'd be worried that my participants weren't doing anything at all! It seems to be the Home, Editors, and Upload tabs that are affected (my participants weren't editing, so Articles may also be affected). Clicking on the profile link for an editor also fails to show any onward links to contributions, even though I can see that contributions have been made. Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. Drkirstyross (talk) 11:47, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Having the same issue in mine [[3]]. The grey text appears to imply that our event refreshes every 40 minutes, but it looks like it took one whole day to update with someone above. Any idea why that is?

Deletions and reversions

I see that the tool reports counts of article creations and edits. Do these include articles that were deleted and edits that were reverted? I think it would be useful to call them out separately, given that some events seem to result in complete deletion/reversion and so the dashboard gives a very misleading view, suggesting success where there is actually failure. Bovlb (talk) 17:39, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Just to follow up on this with a specific suggestion, it would be very useful if the dashboard's articles report indicated whether the article was deleted. I found an event yesterday where almost every item was deleted, but there was no indication of this on the report. I feel like this would be useful for both facilitators and project administrators. Bovlb (talk) 16:59, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Removing users from the dashboard

I asked this in a thread above, but I don't want it to get lost in the noise, and it seems important enough to have its own thread. What is the process for having someone removed as a facilitator or organizer, either for abuse or lack of competence? Bovlb (talk) 17:42, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I suppose if there is misuse of that tool occurring, one of the tool admins could remove a facilitator. Personally, I'd be unlikely to act on something that wasn't an actual misuse of the tool itself or some sort of emergency situation - but other admins might (my admin use on here is primarily technical in nature, not operational). There are foundation staff involved in this program that may have better answers. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:28, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

OK, just so I'm clear: If we have a situation where a outreach event is costing much more than any benefit it brings (in terms of disruption to projects, volunteer time, the effect on participants who are blocked or whose contributions are deleted, and the general damage to WMF's reputation), then that does not merit any intervention, and the organizers/facilitators should be free to repeat this with future events? If so, then this is not well-aligned with the perspective of volunteers on the projects being affected. Bovlb (talk) 20:40, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

That's a good question for the WMF resources here. Note, removing an event's coordinator, even deleting an event on the dashboard is not going to stop contributors from contributing to projects. Usually the dashboard is just part of a larger set of organization that is occurring off-wiki. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:41, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. It looks like we're going to be introducing a new policy soon that Wikidata-related events must have at least one credentialed Wikidata trainer. Do you have any thoughts on how that requirement could be enforced through the dashboard? Bovlb (talk) 04:11, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure, can you point to an example of one? — xaosflux ^Talk 04:54, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

An example of what? Bovlb (talk) 04:57, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

An example of a PED program/campaign that has wikidata as it's primary project. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Let me ask the same question another way. If I want to present the case for removing an organizer/facilitator/instructor, what is the correct venue in which to do that? Bovlb (talk) 22:01, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Right now, it's probably this talk page. But, this program is heavily supported by staff - so let's see what they have to say. Besides staff, the dashboard volunteer admins are listed here: Programs_&_Events_Dashboard/Admins. dashboard admins can stop a program, but we can't really stop a person from starting a new one. And PED admins have no special access to projects. If someone is disrupting a project, project management processes are usually going to be the quickest way to deal with it (e.g. communicating with contributors, blocking disruptive contributors). — xaosflux ^Talk 23:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm understanding things correctly. Are you saying that admins can stop existing programs, but anyone can just create new ones, and there's no filter or credentialing of dashboard users at all? So someone who was blocked on a project could create an event targetting that project? What if they were blocked on meta or globally locked? Bovlb (talk) 19:47, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

If they are globally locked they won't be able to sign on, so that will certainly stop them. AFAIK PED doesn't care about blocks (I did a test with one of my alts, and was able to create a program on PED while that account was blocked here). Outreach staff will need to answer this more. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:50, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. That seems like an odd omission. Requesting a global lock because someone may not be a competent instructor on one project seems disproportionate as a minimum possible intervention. Bovlb (talk) 19:56, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps. Users disrupting a single project should be able to be directly blocked on said project of course. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Right. And we could certainly block them locally (although in many cases they might not even notice). The oddity here is that the disruption is both indirect and magnified. We don't normally block editors for being inexperienced and ignorant, but we do not want them to act as trainers either. Experience shows that editors who have no regard for notability or responding to feedback don't tend to instill either in their students.

If the Wikidata project changes its policy as a result of the RFC, then this might require some enhancements to the PED in order to comply. Bovlb (talk) 20:25, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

I have a feeling most PED programs aren't focused on wikidata - they are almost always focused on encyclopedia projects. And lots of projects do all sorts of other events, editathons, etc that aren't part of this program. Did you find an example of a program that was actually set to wikidata as it's primary project? — xaosflux ^Talk 22:00, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

I have seen many events that include Wikidata among its projects. Here is an example of an event that only lists Wikidata. Bovlb (talk) 23:37, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. For a lot of this non-technical aspects, I suggest you send a contact request in to wikiedu about this discussion. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:29, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

The more I think about it, the weirder it is that wikiedu's contact page doesn't point at an on-wiki means to contact them. I don't think that's acceptable. Who runs wikiedu and why are they not using normal wiki conventions for communication? Bovlb (talk) 17:02, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

That's likely because the Wiki Education Foundation that runs that program is an external organization, not part of the Wikimedia Foundation proper. They have their own board, funding, etc. You can learn more about their organization here. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:38, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Program edits not updating- Edit-A-Thon

We are running an editithon edit-a-thon - and I am not seeing any updates. they seem to have stopped 3 days ago. Any sense of or advice on why? Thank You Cosmicarchive (talk) 15:51, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not showing updates on edits

Hi! I have created a program for an edit-a-thon[4] but I can't see any updates. Will appreciate any help and feedback. Thank you. Daragang Nagueña (talk) 16:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Data not coming from new categories added to the dashboard

On Monday I added about 35 new categories to our dashboard but the edits we've made on those are not updating to the dashboard itself. What to do? Cheers, Jjanhone (talk) 09:21, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Adding a language to the dashboard

Hi! i am posting here as there is a recently release from incubator language - isiNdebele seSewula which does not appear in tracked wiki's list nr.wikipedia.org How does one add this language for tracking on programmes and campaigns?Herschal Jackson (WMZA)) 11:21, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Dashboards not publicly available?

I created a dashboard to share information about my team's editing, but the dashboard isn't available publicly. Is this a known issue? The main reason I use the program and events dashboard is to share information about my team's editing with stakeholders. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

oops, turns out the default was set to private. If anyone else encounters this issue, you can change it under "edit details." Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 18:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Edits not counting

My edits recently is not counting Bamjos (talk) 16:26, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard not updating

Hi,

@SabrinaMacGrg (and many others) hosted an edit-a-thon yesterday and it seems that many contributions haven't been taken into account.

Here's the link to the dashboard.

Thanks! Facetiae (talk) 13:35, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Edit: it seems everything updated a couple of minutes ago.

Creating an account for participants

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T390751

Hello there. I am enjoying this dashboard and have created a course https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/jeXed/The_viability_of_using_LLMs_in_Higher_Education When I attempt to encourage participants to sign up, to the page and try and create an account, I get the following response

Failure: Could not create account for jeXed / [REDACTED]. response: {"warnings"=>{"main"=>{"*"=>"Unrecognized parameter: mailpassword."}}, "createaccount"=>{"status"=>"FAIL", "message"=>"The supplied credentials could not be used for account creation.", "messagecode"=>"authmanager-create-no-primary"}}

Have tried this twice and the error persists. Could you advise? Thanks Derek J Moore (talk) 09:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Is your participant getting that, or are you getting it when processing account requests? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:31, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

I was able to replicate this problem and have opened bug phab:T390751. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:36, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Outdated Metrics

We are encountering some issues with Outreach Dashboard regarding the activities we are supervising in the Projeto Mais Teoria da História na Wiki. We've noticed that, over time, the metrics for these activities are either decreasing or showing zero, even though the activities have indeed been completed.

Would it be possible to get some support to understand what might be happening?

The outdated activity pages are as follows:

• Diversidade da Pesquisa Historiográfica
• Tópicos especiais I PPGM - UNIRIO 2024.1
• História Medieval UERN
• Wikiconcurso Mais Mulheres em Teoria da História na Wiki
• Wikiconcurso Mais Diversidade em Teoria da História na Wiki 2024
• Combate à Desinformação e ao Discurso de Ódio contra pessoas LGBTI
• Projeto Toninhas do Brasil

Thank you! Vsdetoni (Projeto Mais+) (talk) 13:29, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Downloaded stats not corresponding with dashboard

Hi, Open Foundation West Africa hosted the Shine Her Light Writing Contest last month. We have noted that the downloaded stats are woefully below what shows on the dashboard. While the homepage of the dashboard shows over 4k articles both created and edited, the downloaded stats add up to less than 200. This is making it difficult for us to select winners. Prompt assistance would be appreciated. Jael28 (talk) 11:13, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Some of the stat downloads, including the ones I think you were trying to use, had to be removed as a feature during a major update earlier this year, and we forgot to remove the link at the time that we stopped generating the required data. I apologize for the confusion (and that we couldn't provide the data you were looking for). Better support for contests is something I hope to implement eventually. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:27, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Username change

Hello! I recently requested a username change, and I've noticed that on Outreach Dashboard I still have the old name and I don't know how to change it to the current one, or if it's even an option. It would be a shame to lose all the progress I've been making in different events if I had to create another account. This is my profile, as you can see, when you clic on the name it says that account doesn't exist, which is true, since I have a new username. Thank you!! Anónime (Talk; they/them) 17:39, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

If you log out of the dashboard and log back in, it will automatically update to your username. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:54, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard stopped updating

Hi, I and my colleagues hosted an edit-a-thon few weeks ago and the dashboard initially worked fine but now it seems that the contributions haven't been updated since the past four days.

Here's the link to the dashboard [5].

Thank you for your help. Majalam (talk) 01:48, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Same. Nemoralis (talk) 14:52, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

An article missing from the dashboard

There's an article my team member has created that is now shown on our dashboard. I've included two categories from the article in the dashboard and as it didn't help I've also created a page pile containing the article and added that on the dashboard. Can you please check what's going on? Jjanhone (talk) 07:33, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

I have a suspicion that this is a bug caused by the system's inefficiency with retroactively detecting edits to articles that were not previously in a tracked category or pagepile at the time the edits were made. I've just scheduled a full update for this page, which should regenerate the data from the start date, so I hope it will have updated stats including that missing article within about a day. I will check up on it then. Fixing the underlying bug is on our radar, but may be difficult. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:24, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Total number of page views

I have been teaching about 70 courses with about 3000 articles in some 20 different languages being edited. I get the stats for each program for the period I have set, which usually is 1 month. Now I would like to have the information about how many views these 3000 articles were receiving during 2024 for an open ed that I'm writing. How can I do this? Olle Terenius (UU) – Programs & Events Dashboard Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 15:15, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

The Dashboard doesn't scope views by time period like that, so the only thing I can think of would be to write a script to get the data you need from https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:09, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Problems with the 1Lib1Ref NG campaign

Hi. Editors on enwiki have noticed a number of problematic edits using the #1Lib1Ref NG tag. At first we didn't know what to make of them and we ended up blocking a number of editors for disruptive editing and sockpuppetry. We've since figured out the relationship to this project. Could somebody please join the conversation at en:WP:ANI#Bogus/invalid citation spree - mass rollback and block needed. to help us resolve this? RoySmith (talk) 11:55, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Help Needed – Participant Edits Not Showing on Dashboard

I created this program:

Revitalizing UK History – Outreach Dashboard

It’s set to track www.wikidata.org, and participants enrolled during the event — but no edits are being counted yet.

Is there a delay, or something I might be missing?

Thanks in advance! JosefAnthony (talk) 12:03, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi! I assume it started working eventually, as your Revitalzing UK history pages are showing lots of Wikidata edits now. I apologize the lack of timely support. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:12, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Not updating

Please check this CBSUA Wiki Education - LitFest. The statistics is not updating. -Filipinayzd (talk) 03:55, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

missing failed updates?

Hi, https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/Coordinate_Me_2025_AT_(2025)/home says on stat:

The last update ran successfully, so the statistics should be up to date.
Out of the last 10 updates, 0 failed and 0 encountered errors.
Gesamtzahl der bisherigen Updates: 80.
Ein neues Update war für den 27 days ago geplant. Dies kann bedeuten, dass das Update länger als erwartet dauert, oder auf ein Problem hinweisen, das Updates blockiert.
The stats will continue to be updated until July 1st 2025.

If an update was scheduled 27 days ago, and did not run, this is an epochal failure. The last update DIDN'T run successfully. IMHO two things are necessary: catch the non-halting update in time and report as an error, and secondly care for this kind of errors in general. best --Herzi Pinki (talk) 14:56, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. We've made some significant improvements for handling high-edit wikidata programs (and handling errors better). I assume that some later updates ran successfully? I just scheduled a new update, so it should be up-to-date with an update with the latest fixes within a day or two. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:06, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Participant Edits Not Showing on Dashboard

Greetings,

I created these programs:

• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedistas_de_Uruguay/DU_2025_Derechos_econ%C3%B3micos_(abril_y_mayo_2025)
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedistas_de_Uruguay/DU_2025_Derechos_ambientales_(junio_y_julio_2025)

And they're not showing results. Is something happening that I didn't notice? Thank you in advance. Regards, Paula (WDU) (talk) 16:47, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I assume this eventually showed the expected edits. If not, please let me know. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:01, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

PLAINTE

JE SUIS ONDO Marina Myriam et je ne suis pas camerounaise SVP veuillez ôter mon nom dans la liste des écrivaines camerounaise 154.112.8.159 21:35, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Je suis ONDO Marina Myriam et je ne suis pas camerounaise SVP veuillez ôter mon nom dans la liste des écrivaines camerounaises 154.112.8.159 21:36, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Metrics seem stuck..

Hey, we have set up a dashboard, this one: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ionian_Univeristy/Ionian_Wikithon_2025_(June_2025)/home Although we see log actions from users, eg check https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ionian_Univeristy/Ionian_Wikithon_2025_(June_2025)/uploads the metrics, eg corresponding `Commons Uploads` in dashboard front-page, are stuck and not increasing. Can you give us pointers how to fix? Thanks! Dimitrios DimitriosRingas (talk) 09:04, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

I assume this got unstuck eventually. If not, let me know. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:00, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

ibawiki cannot be tracked

Articles from iba.wikipedia.org cannot be tracked in the Outreach Dashboard at this moment. ibawiki was launched last year. We are doing ibawiki workshops. Tofeiku (talk) 04:34, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

iba.wikipedia is enabled now. I apologize for the delay. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:10, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

mos.wikipedia.org cannot be tracked

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T399343

We are unable to track mos.wikipedia.org in the outreach dashboard. We came live in September, 2024 and we are currently embarking on edit-a-thon to increase the number of articles. We anticipate your quick action to resolve this issue so that we can have a fruitful event.Hasslaebetch (talk) 17:34, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

mos.wikipedia is enabled now. I apologize for the delay. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:09, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

CSV download broken

Since at least several days I am not able to download the course statistics as CSV. GPSLeo (talk) 18:13, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Sorry there is nothing broken, this was a problem with the web browser on my side. GPSLeo (talk) 08:16, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard inaccurate

We set-up a Dashboard for a Wikimedian in Residence, who has been editing mainly on Wikipedia. However the Dashboard is showing stats that are not accurate - saying she has created 87 new articles and she knows she hasn't created that many. What might be causing this? We've waited for a week or two to see if it corrects after updating, but it is still wrong. Any suggestions on what might be causing this? Many thanks BindiS (talk) 06:05, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

The count of new articles include redirects that she created; that's likely the cause of the discrepency. You can see all the ones being counted as new articles here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/South_Australian_Museum/SA_Museum_Wikipedian_In_Residence_2025_(July-October_2025)/articles/edited?newness=new&wiki=en.wikipedia

You have to clikck 'See More' several times to load all the edited articles, and then it will show the ones it's counting as new (now up to 94).

Handling new redirects separately is on list as a future improvement. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:01, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

information erronée

Bonjour je suis ONDO Marina Myriam et je vous informe que je ne suis pas camerounaise veuillez s'il vous plait pour la énième fois retirer mon nom de votre site Lumière sur les femmes camerounaises - 2025 - Articles modifiés 154.112.0.6 13:49, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

It looks like the article about you was deleted from Wikipedia, but the dashboard hadn't been updated in the meantime so it still showed the article. I've just initiated a data update for that program, so once it completes, it should result in removing your name from that list of edited articles. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:55, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Created articles don't appear

Hello,

I'm facing a problem with my new created campaigns, as usual, I added the articles list, editors after finishing the contest, and waiting more than 48 hours, but the created articles didn't appear. I changed the scope, but the problem is still the same.

the following dashboards:

• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_for_Minorities/Marathon_WikiDruze_2025
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Kuwait_User_Group/Edit-a-thon_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Kuwait_User_Group/Edit-a-thon_from_Kuwait_to_Iran_Ar_Wikipedia
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Kuwait_User_Group/Edit-a-thon_Dishes_from_North_Africa
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_for_She/Editathon,_Wiki_For_She_2024
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Kuwait_User_Group/Edit-a-thon_on_Kuwait's_National_Day_2025
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_for_Minorities/Wiki_Marathon_for_Minorities_2025
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Kuwait_User_Group/Kuwaiti_Women_Editing_Competition_2025

Note: I only faced this issue with my new projects, I used the same method before, the articles and statistics were appearing within two days after I entered the data.

Thanks! Rotana🦋 (talk) 11:57, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

It looks like these all got processed eventually. I apologize for the slowness of the system at the time you created these; we've made some improvements to reduce waits times since then. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:53, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

o site não me deixa logar, posso saber o por que ? Victor Hugo Francisco da Silva (talk) 12:17, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

== Pourquoi je ne peux pas inscrire les participant.es. dans la dashboard.

Je viens de faire un edit a thon et je ne peux inscrire les participant.e.s. Pourquoi ? Merci. AfricanadeCuba (talk) 12:48, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Demande de chagement de compagne en progarmme.

Bonjour,

Nous sollicitons un changement concernant la configuration de notre activité. En effet, au lieu de créer un programme dans le tableau de bord, nous avons par erreur créé une campagne. Serait-il possible de convertir cette campagne en programme ? Cela nous permettrait de mieux prendre en charge et de suivre les contributions issues de l’ensemble des projets frères de Wikimédia, ce qui n’est pas possible dans le format actuel de campagne. Nous vous remercions d’avance pour votre aide. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/pool_strategic_/overview Shayi ngolu (talk) 13:40, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

It looks like you're now using the campaign for two programs, so I assume it's okay now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:50, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Broken links in Training Program

Hi there,

I have noticed a number of links on buttons in the training program are broken in the same way - incorrectly adding "}}" to the end. For example:

• The prompt to go to your sandbox on the About Sandboxes page
• Launching the "Be bold" tutorial on the Let's Try It page
• Launching the talk page tutorial on the Talk Page Tutorial page

On investigating the page sources, they appear to be formatted correctly, so I think the problem is to do with the translation / rendering to the outreach dashboard. I attempted a fix for the About Sandboxes page but it doesn't appear to be successful. Perhaps there is a deeper issue to fix?

Thanks

Pgildersleve (talk) 12:55, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I've filed a bug report; I think it's related to translate tags inside template parameters, and how the dashboard handles that. Should be straightforward to fix. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:49, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

seleccionar articulo disponible

no me aparece para seleccionar un archivo Pabloh2003 (talk) 14:01, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Still tracking wikidata, even after I removed it from the programme

The dashboard seems to still be tracking Wikidata (which I don't want), weeks after I removed it: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Nottingham/Nottingham_Feminist_Archives Lajmmoore (talk) 20:54, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this bug! I'll file an issue for it, and we'll get it fixed. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:42, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Dashboard went back to zero

I'm an editor at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Latinoam%C3%A9rica_en_Wikidata_2025, and suddenly, today, I find out the count of the editors went back to zero, as if the count had restarted. Alaniarq (talk) 15:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure why that happened. It looks like it's back to normal now. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:38, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence dashboard

Hello, I'm trying to set up a dashboard to track Wikipedian in Residence editing for the user name "User:MMO Tracking" The intention is for this to be a single-user tracking dashboard.

When I created the dashboard, I listed myself as "Facilitators: MMO Tracking" and I can see the test edits I made listed on the "Recent Activity" page. However nothing is showing up in the summaries for "articles edited" etc. so I'm not quite sure if I've done it properly.

I could alternatively be listed as "Facilitators: Mary Mark Ockerbloom" which is my main account name, as long as the dashboard doesn't include edits from that account, and only tracks the work of my Wikipedian in Residence account for "MMO Tracking".

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/MBH_Foundation/Wikipedian_in_Residence/home MMO Tracking (talk) 22:27, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Is it working as expected now? The Recent Activity page is real-time data, pulled directly from mediawiki when you view that page, but the rest of the data is based on slower processes that happen on the Dashboard server, so it can take several hours before you see the first results. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:05, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi Sage, Yes, I think it was just a time delay issue. Thanks, Mary MMO Tracking (talk) 19:00, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

ILAE Epilepsy Project, facilitators need updating

Dashboard link. Hi I am a facilitator here, and the current Wikipedian in Residence. At a meeting today the currently active facilitators (Nandam, me, Jonah) decided we wanted to keep all the former faciliator names (Amin, Marium) up, but to mark them as inactive & have them follow the active names at the end of the list. I can see how to remove names, but not how to edit the list this way.

Is there a way to do this? Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 16:43, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

No, there's no way to manually order the users. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:07, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 01:22, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Article views not working

Hi, I have set up a dashboard for a student project. All working as planned, except that the article view count is clearly wrong (and has been like this for a few days). Have I set up the dashboard wrong, or is there a glitch? https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Edinburgh/Wikipedia_and_the_Past_25-26_(Autumn_2025)/home Charleslincolnshire (talk) 11:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! It looks like there's some buggy behavior connected with a recent change to how we collect view data. Normally, the view estimates should update every two weeks or so, but the first time we collect data it's about 1 day after the first edit to a given article. I suspect that this buggy behavior is related to lag in the pageview tool; we may have calculated the initial daily page views before any data was available. I'm going to file an issue and look into it further. Meanwhile, I expect to see good data for your page about a week from now, when the system refreshes the view data for all those edited articles. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:50, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Editors Overview tidak terupdate

Saya sudah membuat artikel kurang lebih 3.000 bita, namun Characters Added (article | user | draft), recent edits, etc, tidak terupdate. Bakteriyakult (talk) 17:53, 14 November 2025 (UTC)