Growth/Newsletters/17



Welcome to the seventeenth 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.

Moving forward: more wikis to get the tools
Last November, the Growth team published the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers. Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features.

We are looking for translators who would like to help our effort, by translating the interface. Translate Growth experiments is done on translatewiki>Special:MyLanguage/Translatewiki.net|Translatewiki.net (it requires a different account that your Wikimedia one). Access to translations

News for mentors
Our effort to deploy the tools to more wikis will lead to more tools for mentors being available.

At the moment, newcomers using the Help panel can ask a question on the Help desk. We made an experiment on Czech Wikipedia, where newcomers where asking their question to their mentors instead. This lead to a increase of 30% of questions about editing for mentors. This experiment is extended to Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedia.

Community news
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