Growth/Analytics updates/Help Panel editor activation rate

Summary
The overarching goal of the Help Panel is to provide users with easier ways to get help without them having to leave the editing context. For newly registered users this could mean they are more likely to make their first edit, or make that first edit sooner, which in our case means a potential increase in "editor activation" (the proportion of new users who make at least one edit within 24 hours after registration).

Analyzing the Help Panel's impact on editor activation is part of our experiment plan. In that plan we describe how we run an A/B test over the course of six months, and during that test half of new registrations on our target wikis (Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese) get the Help Panel turned on by default, and half do not (whether they do or not is chosen at random when they register). Note that auto-created accounts (users who register but already have an account on another wiki) are not part of this experiment.

The conclusion of our analysis is that there does not appear to be a statistically significant difference in activation rate between the Help Panel and control groups in either of our target Wikipedias.

Next, the Growth Team is working on using statistical methods that allow us to analyze data from all three wikis together in order to increase our statistical power, as well as also looking at whether the Help Panel affects user activity. Lastly, we're working on determining future changes to the Help Panel to improve its functionality.