User:KStoller-WMF/sandbox

Update 2022-05-20: positive reinforcement updates and other Growth team work

 * Annual planning
 * We are planning for our coming year, and we’ll post our thoughts in the next couple weeks so that community members can react to our plans and help make sure we’re on the right track.


 * Positive reinforcement
 * This is the next big project that the Growth team will focus on. We want newcomers to understand there is progression and value to sustained contributions on Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.
 * We have started a Positive Reinforcement discussion with contributors in English, and we will also discuss the project in more detail with our pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias) who receive Growth team features first. You can some of our ideas in the accompanying image.  Please join the discussion to share your thoughts!
 * The three main ideas part of the Positive Reinforcement project are:
 * Impact: An overhaul of the Impact module based on incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information.
 * Leveling up: It is important to communities that newcomers progress to more valuable tasks. For those who do many easy tasks, we want to nudge them toward trying more difficult tasks.
 * Personalized praise: Research shows that praise and encouragement from other users increases newcomer retention. We want to think about how to encourage experienced users to thank and award newcomers for good contributions.


 * Add an image
 * There have been no changes lately to this feature, but we are gathering data and community thoughts to plan iteration 2.  So far, over 5,000 images have been added to articles.
 * Add an image was used in four successful GLAM events, in which 67 people made 198 image edits.  We also learned many of these contributors returned and continued to make edits following the GLAM event.
 * Add a link
 * We have completed "iteration 2", which involved several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis:
 * Algorithm improvements:
 * Avoid recommending links in sections that usually don't have links.
 * Avoid suggesting first names.
 * Limit each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article.)
 * User experience improvements:
 * Add a confirmation dialog when exiting out of suggestion mode prior to making changes.
 * Improved post-edit dialog experience.
 * Allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog.
 * Community configuration:
 * Allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig
 * With those improvements, we are confident about releasing "add a link" to more wikis, and so this past week the feature was released to these wikis:
 * Catalan Wikipedia
 * Hebrew Wikipedia
 * Hindi Wikipedia
 * Korean Wikipedia
 * Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia
 * Portuguese Wikipedia
 * Simple English Wikipedia
 * Swedish Wikipedia
 * Ukrainian Wikipedia
 * Marketing:
 * We are currently partnering with the Marketing team to test the efficacy of social media ads (bringing users into our projects) and welcoming emails (retaining new users). This newcomer experience marketing pilot includes an inspiring video full of community members.  We’ll post results in a few weeks.
 * Fundraising:
 * We are working with Fundraising on ideas for how to give donors the opportunity to learn to edit.  Next week we will start an experiment (in fundraising campaigns in Latin America, South Africa, and India) that shows donors a thank you message that also encourages them to create an account to start editing and improving Wikipedia.
 * Donors included in this fundraising campaign who create accounts will then be brought to the newcomer homepage to get started.