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গ্রোথ দলের সপ্তদশ নিউজলেটারে আপনাকে স্বাগতম!

গ্রোথ দলের লক্ষ্য হল সফটওয়্যারজনিত পরিবর্তনের মাধ্যমে মধ্যম আকারের উইকিমিডিয়া প্রকল্পসমূহে নবাগতদের ধরে রাখতে সহায়তা করা।

কাঠামোবদ্ধ কাজ
একটি লিঙ্ক যুক্ত করুন: গ্রোথ দল আমাদের প্রথম "কাঠামোবদ্ধ কাজ" নিয়ে প্রকৌশলগত কাজ চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে, যার মাধ্যমে নিবন্ধে উইকিলিঙ্ক যুক্ত করার কাজটা ভেঙে সহজ কিছু কার্যপ্রণালীর আওতায় নিয়ে আসা হবে। এর মাধ্যমে নবাগতদের একটি অ্যালগোরিদম দিয়ে কিছু শব্দ ও বাক্যাংশের পরামর্শ দেয়া হবে, যা অন্য নিবন্ধের সাথে সংযুক্ত হতে পারে।

একটি ছবি যুক্ত করুন: even as we build our first structured task, we have been thinking about the next one. "Add an image" is a structured task in which newcomers would be recommended images from Wikimedia Commons to add to unillustrated articles. This is an ambitious idea with many details to consider. We have already learned a lot from community members, and we encourage everyone to look at the project page and join the discussion.

Moving forward: more wikis to get the features
Last November, the Growth team published the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers. Because of these results, we believe all Wikipedias should implement these features.

We have started to contact more wikis to deploy the features, including Wikipedias of all sizes. Bengali Wikipedia recently began using Growth features, and Danish, Thai, Indonesian, and Romanian Wikipedias will be coming soon. Please contact us if you have questions regarding deployment.

We are looking for translators who can help by translating the interface. Translating is done on Translatewiki.net (it requires a different account that your Wikimedia one). Communities that already have the Growth features being deployed are invited to check on the translations. '''[https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-growthexperiments&language=&filter=&action=translate Access translations here. ]'''

Variant testing
As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we ran a test of two variants of the newcomer homepage, meant to find a version that increases users completing suggested edits. We have completed the experiment, and learned that one of the variants leads to more edits on desktop while the other leads to more edits on mobile. Therefore, we will deploy the strongest variants for each platform to all newcomers.

News for mentors
 Mentor dashboard : we have interviewed mentors from several communities as we plan a mentor dashboard feature, which would help mentors track the progress of their mentees. We encourage all mentors to share their thoughts on tools that would help them.

 Magic word for mentors : it is now possible to use a magic word, , to display the name of a given newcomer's mentor. This can be used on welcome messages, userboxes, etc.

 Help panel questions going to mentors : in most wikis, newcomers using the help panel ask questions to the help desk. On Czech Wikipedia, we have experimented with sending these questions to mentors instead. This simplifies the newcomer experience, and only led to a increase in mentorship questions of about 30%. We're now trying this change in Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

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