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Growth team nieuwsbrief 20
 Welkom bij de twintigste nieuwsbrief van het Growth team!

Het doel van het team is om te werken aan softwarewijzigingen die helpen nieuwe bijdragers in Wikimedia-projecten te behouden.



Voorgestelde bewerkingen
Vanaf februari zijn 300.000 voorgestelde bewerkingen voltooid sinds de functie voor het eerst werd geïmplementeerd in december 2019.

Voeg een link toe is de eerste gestructureerde taak van het team, geïmplementeerd in mei 2021. Het heeft de resultaten voor nieuwkomers verbeterd. Het team werkt nu aan een tweede iteratie op basis van feedback van de gemeenschap en data-analyse. Verbeteringen zijn onder meer: verbeterde algoritmische suggesties, maatregelen om te voorkomen dat er te veel vergelijkbare links worden toegevoegd en duidelijkere aanmoedigingen voor gebruikers om door te gaan met het maken van bewerkingen. Na het toevoegen van deze verbeteringen zullen we deze taak op meer Wikipedia's implementeren.

Voeg een afbeelding toe is de tweede gestructureerde taak die door ons team is gebouwd. Het werd in november 2021 ingezet op vier pilot-Wikipedia's. Dit is een meer uitdagende taak voor nieuwkomers. Het voegt echter meer waarde toe aan artikelen (tot nu toe zijn er meer dan 1.000 afbeeldingen toegevoegd). We leren nu van gemeenschappen en van de gegevens over wat goed werkt en wat verbeterd moet worden. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.

"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.

Positive reinforcement
Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:

This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit the talk page to help guide the project!
 * Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
 * Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
 * Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.

News for mentors
Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it to Wikidata!
 * The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.
 * The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors.
 * We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.
 * Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.
 * We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up.

Schaling
Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features (except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you, we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki.



Hoe u kunt helpen
Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.

Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.

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