Growth/Growth team updates

Summary
This page documents the Growth team's first project to increase new editor retention in Czech and Korean Wikipedias. The research for this project began in June 2018, and the project will continue at least through September 2018. During July and August 2018, the team is simultaneously working on a project to improve the Articles for Creation process and New Pages Feed in English Wikipedia.

The first thing we need to do in this project is decide what to work on amongst the many potential ideas for features that could increase retention. See the update from July 6 below for the details on that effort.

Goal
The following are the goals of this project:


 * By September 2018, roll out an initial proof-of-concept software change to Czech and Korean wikis to increase new editor retention.
 * Measure the impact on new editor retention using a controlled experiment.
 * Based on the experiment's results, determine whether to evolve this feature, or to begin a new feature.

How to get involved
It is important that our work is grounded in the reality of the communities we hope to help. If you have thoughts or ideas around this project or our team's work, please comment on this project's talk page.

Update 2018-07-06: data, planning, and research
While the majority of the team's effort is currently going toward the Articles for Creation and New Pages Feed project for English Wikipedia, the team is laying the ground work for this initial Growth project by doing three main things:


 * Analyzing data about contributor behavior in Czech and Korean Wikipedias. We are setting up the queries and reports that will allow us to track the contributor retention rates in our target wikis, and to understand exactly where in the editing process new contributors are most likely to drop off.  We will post this data on wiki as soon as we're able.
 * Partnering with our ambassadors in the Czech and Korean communities to document the current resources that help new contributors in those wikis. We want to make sure that anything we build compliments the existing pages and tutorials that already exist, and that we are not duplicating efforts with any community members.  This is the related Phabricator task.
 * Summarizing existing ideas for features that could increase retention. Many WMF staff and community members have attempted and proposed ideas for new editor retention in the past.  We're making sure to collect those ideas and use them as a starting point.  We will post that information on wiki as soon as we're able.

We have also spent time this week establishing the processes for our new team, such as when we have meetings, how our Phabricator board works, and how we'll balance new work with maintenance on previous features built by engineers on the team. Those previous features include Notifications and the new filters on the Recent Changes and Watchlist pages.