The Capacity Directory features a structure of skills organized in three ways.

The first tab shows skills organized as themed cards. Each main skill is represented by a card with subcategories inside. There are currently seven main skills, each with a distinct color and a set of more specific capabilities within them.

The second tab displays skills in a tree view. It follows the same hierarchy as the cards view, but highlights how skills are connected, making their relationships easier to understand at a glance.

The third tab shows categories commonly used in volunteer work across three thematic areas: Linguistic Equity, Knowledge Gaps, and Open Education. It allows you to quickly select categories relevant to your work as a Wikimedian in a more direct and focused way.

The image, name, languages and territories shown on the cards are pulled from the profile in question.

Cards display skills grouped into three categories: wanted, available, or known, based on what the user has selected on their profile.

Learner is a tag for profiles that have selected skills as Wanted. It indicates someone looking to connect with others who can share specific skills. These capacities appear in red on the right side of the card.

Sharer is a tag for profiles that have selected skills as Available. It represents someone willing to teach or share those skills. These capacities appear in green on the right side of the card.

Proficient is a tag for profiles that have selected skills as Known. It reflects the skills the user already has. These capacities appear in orange on the right side of the card.

The Wanted, Available and Known capacities shown on the cards are those indicated on the profile in question.

These will be used to add the tags Sharer, Learner and/or Proficient to the profile card and filter profiles according to your needs.

Click the circular profile icon or the profile image to open that user’s profile page.

Click the save icon to add a profile to your list: the icon will fill to confirm it’s saved. Click it again to remove the profile from your list, and the icon will return to its empty state.

To view your saved profiles, open the hamburger menu and click Saved profiles, or navigate directly to the page: capx.toolforge.org/feed/saved. This page is private and can only be accessed by the user it belongs to.

You can filter the profiles to look for those who match your needs.

The first possible way is to filter by username.

To do that, click on the search bar at the top of the Explore page.

Enter the username you’re looking for, and the tool will show matching results. If you’re not sure of the exact name, start typing a few letters to filter and display profiles that match your search.

Next to the search bar, there is a filter icon. Click on it to open a pop-up window with some selection options.

In the first option, you can filter by Capacities. Start typing the first few letters of a skill in the search box to quickly find matching capacities.

As you type, matching results will appear in a list below the box. Click on a skill to add it to your search.

You can select one capacity at a time, but you can add multiple capacities within the same search. Just click each capacity to include it in your filters.

In Exchange with, you can choose to display profiles with Learner, Sharers, and/or Proficients tags. To select one of the options, click on the check box. To clear it, click once more. The selected option will be highlighted.

Enter the desired username, and the tool will display matching results. If you’re unsure of the exact name, type a few letters to filter and show profiles that match your search.

You can also filter profiles by Territories, Affiliation and Languages. To select your options, click on Add territory, Add affiliation or Add language to open a drop-down menu. Search for the desired option by scrolling down the list. If you are browsing on the desktop, you can also type to help with the search.

Once you click on a name, it will be added to your filter and be highlighted. To delete a territory, affiliation or language from your list, click on the delete icon () on the right side of it.

It is worth noting that, if you choose to filter profiles by region, the tool will show you all the profiles that have this specific region and those that have countries contained by the region, according to 2022 Wikimedia Foundation divisions. If you select to filter by a specific country, the tool will show you only the profiles that indicated it on their territories.

For example, if you choose to filter profiles in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, the tool will show you all the profiles that have LAC on their territories, and also all those that have any country contained by the region. So, if a profile has Brazil or Argentina on its territories, it will be displayed in this case – because both countries are in LAC region. But if you choose to filter profiles in Brazil, only those that have this specific country on their territories will be shown.

To display the profiles filtered according to your selection, click on Show results. If you want to clear your choices, click on Clear all. To close the pop-up window, click on the arrow located at the upper left side of it or on Show results.

On the Messages page, there are two tabs: Write and Sent.

On the first tab, there is a contact form with the same options offered by the MediaWiki Special:EmailUser service - a special page on which a user can email another user and that is used to send CapX's messages.

The first field on the form is From, which will be automatically filled with the username you used to loggin to CapX. This field cannot be altered.

The second field is To. If you have accessed the Messages page via the Let's Talk button, this item will show the username in question. If you have accessed the page directly, you should fill in this field with the username of who you want to message. In this case, be careful not to make any typing mistakes.

The tool automatically checks whether a profile is available. If the user exists in CapX, an Available label appears in green next to their name. If not, a red User not found label is shown - in this case, check for typos. It also indicates when the only contact option is the talk page (for users without an email address) with a orange email unavailable label.

Next, there is the Contact Method field where you can choose between Email and Talkpage from the drop-down menu that opens when you click the arrow icon (). If both users, the sender (From) and the recipient (To), have email addresses linked to their Wikimedia unified account, then the tool will show you both options to choose from. But if one of the parties does not have an email linked to their account, then you will only have the option to send it via the recipient's Talkpage.

After selecting the contact method, you can write a Subject and the Message. In the first field, write a title for your message. Then, provide a brief and objective text to start the conversation with your peer. You can start with a greeting and a brief introduction before getting to the topic.

Click on the Send message button to send it or on Clear message to delete it.

Before the message is sent, a pop-up window will appear to confirm your decision of sending the message. This action cannot be undone. On the pop-up window, you will see information about how the message will be send. After reading it, click on the Cancel button to go back to the edition page, or on Confirm/Send to confirm your choice and send the message to the intended user.

After sending the message, you will see another pop-up window congratulating you and explaining that you can see it on the Sent tab. Click on Close tab or Continue to close the window and go back to the Messages feature.

In the case of a message sent by email, you will receive a copy of it on your email by default. If you published the message on the user talkpage, it will be publicly available for you to see it whenever you want.

In both cases, the user who receives the message can decide where to reply to it. If (and only if) the user replies to it by email, then their address will be disclosed to the sender, as is the case in the Meta-Wiki. If the user decides to keep the conversation on Wiki, their privacy will be maintained. The user can also choose to ignore the message and have the possibility of blocking another user, as it happens on Wikimedia – for more information, access MediaWiki Special:EmailUser.

All message logs are displayed in the Sent tab, within the Messages feature. It means that the tool doesn't store any information shared between the users, either in the message's subject or content.

Messages saved are only available to the user in question, and are displayed in boxes showing to whom they were sent and their status (sent or error). When clicking on the View button, the user can see the contact method that was used and the date the message was sent. This information can be hidden when clicking on the Hide button.

You can click on the Send a new message button at the bottom of the page to go back to the Write tab.

It is only possible to email a CapX user if both users, the sender (From) and the recipient (To), have email addresses linked to their Wikimedia account.

The tool automatically checks whether a profile is available and whether it has an email linked to it. If the user exists and has a connected email, an Available label appears in green next to their name. If no email is available, an Email unavailable label appears in orange.

This means that if the user you want to email does not have an email address registered to their Wikimedia account, you will not be able to contact them in this way.

This also means that you must have an email address registered to your Wikimedia account as well. See MediaWiki Help:Preferences for more information on how to do this.

As previously stated, we do not store the content of the Messages: neither the title nor the text.

We also do not have access to the emails of users involved in the exchange. Emails are accessed through the Wikimedia messaging service and are, therefore, not stored in the CapX database.

The image, name, languages and territories shown on the cards are pulled from the profile in question.

Cards display skills grouped into two categories: wanted or available, based on what the organization has selected on their profile.

Learner is a tag for profiles that have selected skills as Wanted. It indicates a organization that is looking to connect with others who can share specific skills. These capacities appear in red on the right side of the card.

Sharer is a tag for profiles that have selected skills as Available. It represents a organization that is willing to teach or share those skills. These capacities appear in green on the right side of the card.

The Wanted and Available capacities shown on the cards are those indicated on the organization profile in question.

These will be used to add the tags Sharer and/or Learner to the organization profile card and filter those according to your needs.

Click the circular profile icon or the profile image to open that organization profile page.

You can filter the organization profiles to look for those who match your needs.

The first possible way is to filter by the organization name.

To do that, click on the search bar at the top of the Organization list page.

Enter the organization name you’re looking for, and the tool will show matching results. If you’re not sure of the exact name, start typing a few letters to filter and display profiles that match your search.

Next to the search bar, there is a filter icon. Click on it to open a pop-up window with some selection options.

In the first option, you can filter by Capacities. Start typing the first few letters of a skill in the search box to quickly find matching capacities.

As you type, matching results will appear in a list below the box. Click on a skill to add it to your search.

You can select one capacity at a time, but you can add multiple capacities within the same search. Just click each capacity to include it in your filters.

In Exchange with, you can choose to display profiles with Learner and/or Sharers tags. To select one of the options, click on the check box. To clear it, click once more. The selected option will be highlighted.

You can also filter profiles by Territories. To select your options click on Add territory to open a drop-down menu. Search for the desired option by scrolling down the list. If you are browsing on the desktop, you can also type to help with the search.

Once you click on a territory name, it will be added to your filter and be highlighted. To delete it from your list, click on the delete icon () on the right side of it.

To display the profiles filtered according to your selection, click on Show results. If you want to clear your choices, click on Clear all. To close the pop-up window, click on the arrow located at the upper left side of it or on Show results.

It’s important to note that the data reflects CapX’s database. For the map to accurately represent Wikimedians across all territories, community participation is essential. Encouraging users to complete their profiles helps improve coverage and accuracy. And, with more complete data, the map becomes a valuable tool for strategic planning and for understanding capacity-building needs across the movement.

The map Wikimedians through the globe is based on an updated SVG from Wikimedia Commons, designed to better reflect territorial proportions according to community consensus. It also includes an option to flip the map orientation (north or south up), reflecting decolonial perspectives and inspired by Joaquín Torres García’s 1943 work América Invertida.

The default tab is Wikimedians, which shows Wikimedian Density by Territory. Clicking on the map opens a card with details for the selected region, and you can also access these cards by clicking the region name below the map.

The card shows the number of countries in the territory and how many CapX Wikimedians have declared they are located there. It also includes the five Most Spoken Languages, with the number in parentheses indicating how many users speak each language in that region, followed by the five Top Capacities', including data on known and wanted skills. The density legend shows the region with the highest number of declared users.

Click the Languages tab above the map to open the Languages by Territory view. Use Select a language to open the dropdown menu and choose a language. The map will then show the distribution of speakers across regions. Click a region to open its card with detailed language information. The density legend shows the region with the highest number of declared speakers.

Click the Capacities tab above the map to open the Capacities by Territory view. Use Select a capacity to open the dropdown menu and choose a skill. When you select a skill, the map will display color density based on the location of users who have that skill in each region. On the right side of the selection, you can choose the view Type (All capacities, Known, Available or Wanted) to see specific information. Click a region to open its card with detailed skill information.

Note that when you switch between the map tabs, the page data is also filtered to show only the information related to languages or capacities. To view all data again, return to the first tab on the map, Wikimedians.

Go to the Capacity Exchange page on TranslateWiki and click on the Translate this project button on the upper left side of the page.

Remember to log in with your Wikimedia account to register your contributions.

By clicking on the button, you will have access to the tool for translating the original content (in English) into the default language of your Wikimedia account.

If your default language is English, you will see the following message: The source language of this group is English. Please select another language to translate into. Then, click on the arrow icon () in the upper right corner of the screen, next to the text Translate to. Change the language from English to the language you want to translate by choosing from the drop-down list. You can type the name to make it easier to search. When you find the language you want, click on it.

You will be redirected to the page for the translation to the language in question. At the top of the screen, there are four tabs: All, Untranslated, Outdated and Translated. Click on Untranslated to start your contributions.

The translation tool is quite intuitive, so just follow the instructions on the screen. The messages to be translated are always separated by sentences or small paragraphs. At the end of each translation, don't forget to click on Publish translation to publish your contribution. It is worth noting that translations take a few days to be available in the tool.

You may want to access the translation help page on MediaWiki or TranslateWiki Localisation Guidelines for more information.

The names and descriptions of the Capacity Directory are pulled from Metabase and Wikidata. Therefore, in order to pull the translated content, it must exist translated in the respective databases.

If you click on the information icon () of a capacity, a new tab will appear below the box with the capacity's clickable Metabase QID link, the Wikidata QID link, its description (that can be pulled from Metabase or Wikidata), and an two Add buttons.

If the capacity information is not available in your selected language, you will also see a "call to action" box saying Translation needed. Then, a message: "Don't see this capacity in your selected language? Help us translate it on Metabase!" followed by a clickable link Contribute. Click to open a window where you can add information in your profile’s display language.

You can also connect your Metabase account at the top of the window to associate edits with your username by clicking the Connect Metabase button.

The Add translation window shows the skill name in English at the top, followed by the target language code. Enter the translated title and description in the fields provided. The original English text is displayed below for reference.

To save your changes, click Save translation. To discard them, click Cancel.

You can also access each item and translate them manually on Metabase and Wikidata by clicking on their respective QID links. Or you can translate all capacities at a time at the CapX Translate! page.

You can translate all skills into a specific language at once using the CapX Translate! page.

You can access the resource page either from the hamburger menu in the top-right corner of the page or via the direct link https://capx.toolforge.org/translation.

On this page, changes are automatically applied to Metabase using a dedicated bot. To associate translations with your Metabase username, click Connect Metabase button to link your account. A pop-up will open where you can sign in to Metabase and grant permission for the tool to make changes on your behalf. Click Allow to proceed, and than Close window, or Cancel to stop.

If your account is connected, the box will turn green and show: Connected to Metabase as USERNAME. Edits will be attributed to you. To disconnect, click Disconnect in the right corner of the box.

In the top bar, select the target language from the dropdown menu. You can also search for a specific skill by typing keywords, sort results alphabetically (A–Z or Z–A), and choose to show first translated or untranslated items. Click Refresh to apply your selected filters.

The skills are displayed as cards. On the left side, each card shows the corresponding Metabase QID, the reference language (English), and the label and description in that reference language. On the right side of each card, you can enter the translation for the label and description in the target language. When finished, click Save to store your changes.

Cards with unsaved changes will show a purple Edited tag in the top-left corner as a reminder. The counter in the top-right corner tracks your progress, showing how many skills have been translated and how many changes are still unsaved.

Users on Meta-wiki that have inserted the userbox module {{CapacityExchange}} in their pages will see a special userbox on it.

At the top of this userbox, one can read, "Help translate this section". Click on each link to contribute to the CapX translation through Meta-wiki.

By clicking on the link, you will have access to the tool for translating the original content (in English) into the default language of your Wikimedia account through the translation tool of the Meta-wiki project. Remember to log in with your Wikimedia account to register your contributions.

If your default language is English, you will see the following message: The source language of this group is English. Please select another language to translate into. Then, click on the arrow icon () in the upper right corner of the screen, next to the text "Translate to". Change the language from English to the language you want to translate by choosing from the drop-down list. You can type the name to make it easier to search. When you find the language you want, click on it.

You will be redirected to the page for the translation to the language in question. At the top of the screen, there are four tabs: All, Untranslated, Outdated and Translated. Click on Untranslated to start your contributions.

The translation tool is quite intuitive, so just follow the instructions on the screen. The messages to be translated are always separated by sentences or small paragraphs. At the end of each translation, don't forget to click on the Publish translation button to publish your contribution.