Growth/Newsletters/23

Planned publication date: OCT 31.

Highlight of the month
Growth mentorship system has been changed for mentors. Its configuration has been changed to make it easier to setup, manage and use.

Recent changes

 * The Growth team considers to stop control groups on all features. At few wikis, 20% of new accounts don't get the Growth features when they create their account. There 20% were used as control groups in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. As our observations haven't showed a negative impact, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove our control groups. We keep control groups on specific tools.
 * The quality score for Add a link has been changed. We will suggest less links for an article, but they will be more accurate.

News for mentors

 * All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
 * We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
 * Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process.
 * Wikipedias where the list of mentors already exist have been converted to the new system.
 * A new, transcludable special page — — now displays the list of mentors. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor, quit, or manage mentors.

Deployments

 * Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis.