Growth/Communities/Get the Growth experiments on your wiki

The deployment of the Growth team features will happen soon on your wiki. Here are some resources to help you with this deployment.

You can ask for help on the talk page.

Translations
The interface needs to be translated, or the translations have to be checked.

Most important translations


 * Translate the interface (done on translatewiki.net, needs a specific account)
 * Growth/Focus on help desk/Help panel (standard help link to use the Help panel)
 * Growth/Communities/How to interact with newcomers (standard help link for mentors)

Other translations


 * Translate the privacy policy on Meta
 * Translate the New User Survey Privacy Statement on a userspace sub-page
 * Translate the documentation
 * Growth/Personalized first day (optional)
 * Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage (optional)
 * Growth/Understanding first day (optional)
 * Growth/Focus on help desk (optional)
 * Translate aliases for the interface:
 * "WelcomeSurvey"
 * "Homepage"
 * "Impact"
 * "View more"

Help panel


The help panel is deployed on namespaces 0 "Main", 2 "User" and 4 "Help". Namespaces other than 0 "Main" can be changed by locally editing the page

Where questions are posted ("help desk")
The Help panel help newcomers to post questions to the local help desk. The Help desk will post these messages:


 * 1) first on Newcomers friendly place listed on Q11059110
 * 2) if there is no newcomer friendly place, on an Ask a question place listed on Q5621643
 * 3) if there is no such place on the Village pump listed on Q16503

The page where questions are posted can be locally changed by editing the page

Archiving the help desk

 * Is your help desk a traditional page or a Flow page?
 * How is your help desk archived? By bot? Manually? Weekly? Yearly? Does it has a special configuration, like subpages  or a template like  ?

Pages listed in the help panel
5 most important help pages newcomers should have access to when editing are listed in the help panel.

By default, these pages are:


 * Manual of style, taken from Q4994848
 * Help:Editing, taken from Q151637
 * Insert images using the visual editor, taken from Q27919584
 * Insert a citation using the visual editor, taken from Q24238629
 * Article Wizard, taken from Q10968373

If a page is not listed on Wikidata you can:


 * before the deployment, list it on the matching Wikidata item before the deployment (you may have to create it first),
 * after the deployment, no link will not be displayed.

Choosing different pages

These pages can be changed by locally editing the page.

Here is some advice about help pages:


 * If you wish to change a page, we advise you to review the new page and enrich it first. For instance, check if the page is well illustrated, if it presents the different steps needed to achieve something
 * We recommend using the visual editor.
 * We recommend to prefer step-by-step tutorials.
 * We recommend to keep a link about how to add images to articles. It is a popular request.

Search function
The Help panel has a search function. By default, it will search on namespace 4 "help". You can add more namespaces by locally editing the page.

If people need more information, they have access to the main page of the help namespace. The page is listed on Q914807.

Homepage
 Everything setup for the Help panel applies here, plus some extra.

The page displays a tutorial for first steps based on the link found on Q915263.

Mentors list
Mentors are important: they help newcomers to make safe first steps on the wiki.

The Homepage will pick names on the link found on Q14339834.

How to format this page is a critical point! Please follow these indications:


 * The format of the page is a list of mentors, using a special format:  (add no links nor wikitext in it)
 * Protect that page, so that only experienced users can sign-up
 * We recommend having one mentor for every 500 new accounts per month, i.e. if your wiki has 5,000 new accounts per month, you should have 10 mentors signed up in order to handle the volume of incoming questions. Have more mentors than the recommended threshold will decrease the effort needed.

Suggested edits
 Suggested edits cover 5 maintenance tasks: Update article, Add references, Add links, Expand article, Copyedit article

Maintenance templates
Each task is based on maintenance templates: Some templates have redirects. They can be added by locally editing the page

Learn more
Each task has "learn more" link: You can change each link by locally editing the page

Additional links
Suggested Edits needs two more links to work. You can change each link by locally editing the page

Conditions to get the features
Any wiki can request to have these features, with the following conditions.

As detailed on our focus, we will work with the following wikis by order of priority:


 * 1) Wikipedias we in the set of our "target" wikis (Czech, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic) – we address all the feedback they give us.
 * 2) Mid-sized Wikipedias – they get the features as they are, but we may consider suggestions of improvements from those wikis.
 * 3) All other Wikimedia projects – they get the features as they are, and the team will not have time to prioritize improvements specific to those wikis.

Bug reports will be prioritized by the Growth team.

Features will all be deployed (no substitutions, except if incompatible with an existing process), as "experiments". Experiments means that a portion of newcomers will receive the features (the treatment group), and a portion will not (the control group). By comparing these two groups, we will be able to measure the impact of the feature on newcomer retention. Some wikis may not have these groups, at the Growth team discretion.

The prerequisites to get the experiments are listed above.