CEE Hub/Working Groups/Technical Advancement Group
CEE Hub Tech Advancement working group (short TAG, formerly known as: CEE Hub working group Tools) is a working group within CEE Hub focusing to work on one segment in the Programmatic support of the Annual plan of the CEE Hub (Year 3). This segment include mapping and facilitation of the adoption of technical tools/innovations and features (volunteer tools and those developed by WMF).
Tools survey
[edit]The survey was conducted during August 2024 and we received 44 responses from more than 20 community members.
Results and more details about this important survey can be found here.
Annual plan goals
[edit]Based on the results of the survey done in August 2024, during the Y3 we plan to focus on:
- Tool discovery improvements (e.g. featured tools)
- We will contact the participants of the survey to understand their needs and what they would like to see improved
- Help maintain technical Village pumps in the CEE languages
Contact
[edit]- Steering Committee (SC) contact: Papuass
- Employee contact MHeidarzadeh-CEEhub
If you are interested of this working group or you may want to take a part in the upcoming meetings, please send an email to Papuass and/or MHeidarzadeh-CEEhub.
Members
[edit]Current members (as of October 2025) of the CEE Hub Tech Advancement working group:
- Strainu (SC member)
- Pinky sl (SC member)
- Papuass (SC member)
- Wojciech Pędzich (former SC member)
- Tgr (former SC member)
- Philip Kopetzky (former SC member)
- WASP-Outis (Youth member)
Meetings
[edit]First meeting of the working group was held in May 2024 and until today (October 2025), the group had 12 meetings in total.
Updates
[edit]June 2026
[edit]We launched CEE Technical Village Pump, a centralised technical support page for the whole region. Ask the technical questions that are stopping you from writing more articles, organising contests or running that bot.
October 2025
[edit]Currently, we are in contact with the developers of the Cat-a-lot and we will test firstly on three major wikis in the CEE Region (Romanian, Polish and Hungarian), as one of the aims to introduce this tool to all wikis in the region.
Resources
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