Growth/Newsletters/27

Annual plan for Growth
We shared our annual plan, for the period July 2023 - June 2024. Our first project of the year will be Community configuration 2.0, which helps editors with extended rights transparently and easily configure important on-wiki functionality.

After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:


 * Article creation: This project aims to provide new editors with better guidance and guardrails in the article creation process, with the intention of lightening the load of new page reviewers.
 * Non-editing participation: This project aims to create low-risk ways for readers to participate in Wikipedia with the intention of funneling more readers into contributing to the Wikimedia movement.

Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.

Suggested edits
A new Section-level “add an image” structured task has been released to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was created as part of the Structured Data Across Wikipedia project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.

Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new Language-Agnostic Topic Classification. This update will ensure newcomers receive a greater diversity of task recommendations if they have topics selected in non-English Wikipedias. The change is gradual as incoming edits propagate the new topics, and the Research team will evaluate the impact in a few months (T328276).

Mentorship
The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a mentorship program for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors locally. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.

As more communities have implemented mentorship, a WMF data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship on Spanish and English Wikipedia (T341387). The Growth team will also host a Mentoring new editors on Wikipedia session at Wikimania Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.

Positive reinforcement
We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon (the new Impact module, Leveling up, and Personalized praise are still being A/B tested on the Growth team's pilot wikis). In the meantime, initial leading indicators for the Personalized praise project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy and show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.

Growth contributes to IP Editing migration
The Growth team is currently focusing on a project that touches many different WMF teams: IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation. The Growth team will focus on the logged out user to temporary account holder user experience, as well as ensuring that Growth owned extensions and features work as expected with this new temporary account type (T326877).

Community Configuration 2.0
We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project. We are gathering internal WMF team requirements and community feedback (T336608). We have also started to investigate design improvements (T334312), while reviewing similar tools that are part of other products (T338386).