Growth/Release Timeline

This page attempts to track notable changes on production and releases by the Growth team. Previous general project updates from 2018-2021 can be found here. Feel free to jump in and add anything missing!

🎂 is used to mark releases the team feels are worth celebrating and usually mark the end of a long line of work.

Dates should reflect a date the change went into production and generally correspond with that week's deployment train.

March
8th


 * Deployed 'Add an image' to pt, fa, fr, and tr Wikis (phab: T302828).

7th


 * 🎂 Based on the successful RfC on English Wikipedia, we expanded the Growth features to 100% of new accounts with 10% also getting mentorship (phab: T302846).

February
24th


 * Fixed a bug when the additional confirmation dialog was shown when rejecting suggestion instead of allowing for a rejection to be submitted and showing the post-edit dialog (phab: T302463).

17th


 * 🎂 Enabled Growth features for 100% of new accounts on most Wikipedias (phab: T301820).

16th


 * 🎂 Deployed 'Add an image' to Spanish Wikipedia (phab: T301276).

9th


 * 🎂 At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, mentors can now mark themselves as being away or quit, change their introduction or control the number of mentees they want to take care of (phab: T280307).

January
27th


 * 🎂 Add an image desktop project: enabled controlled experiment for the Add an image (desktop) deployment (phab: T298122).

25th


 * 🎂 Add an image desktop project: updated onboarding images for the desktop experience (phab: T298109).

18th


 * Deployed Growth features to pwn.wikipedia.org (phab: T298115).

10th


 * Created ability to deploy Mentor Dashboard module only on the pilot wikis (phab: T298792).

5th


 * Created a landing page for people who attended a special event organized by the Jordan Open Source Association and who were interested to create a new Wikipedia account to get help with editing (phab: T284740).
 * Fixed a bug where mentees assigned to particular mentors were visible in other mentors' recent changes list (phab: T298031).