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Welcome to the sixteenth newsletter from the 1>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth|Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in 1>mw:Special:MyLanguage/New Editor Experiences/Midsize Wikipedias|mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Variant C and D
1>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Growth team updates#Update 2020-07-17: working on Variants C and D|Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed it at the beginning of November. After two weeks of these variants being deployed, we can spot a difference, and the number of interactions increased.

News for mentors
A separate list for workshops hosts

During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without getting people they don't know randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. list>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to_introduce_yourself_as_a_mentor#separate-list|Know more about this feature.

Claiming multiple mentees at once

Mentors can use special:ClaimMentees to have a newcomer being assigned to them. Now, Mentors can claim multiple Newcomers at once.

Community news

 * The Help desk module allows people to post a message to the local Help desk while editing. The tool posted messages at te bottom of help desks by default, like any new messages. WIkis using top-posting are now supported. T261714

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