Growth/Newsletters/23

Planned publication date: NOV 20.

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.

Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test
Growth's goal is to encourage newcomers who have visited their homepage and tried our features to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.

Newcomers have access to an impact module. You can find yours at Special:Impact. This module will be revised, as it only shows the number of views on the last 5 articles edited.

The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited and the number of views for the articles they edited.

You can test this new module at Beta Wikipedia.

Recent changes

 * All Wikipedias have now the same onboarding experience. At few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they create their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. As our observations haven't showed a negative impact of the Growth features, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will keep control groups on specific tools, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request.
 * The quality score for Add a link has been changed. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate.
 * Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.

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. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting.
 * 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.
 * The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees.

Deployments

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

Improving this newsletter
We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.