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Welcome to the fourteenth newsletter from the Growth>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth|Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in midsize>mw:Special:MyLanguage/New Editor Experiences/Midsize Wikipedias|mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Success with guidance


We deployed the G>mw:Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer tasks#Version 1.2: guidance|"Guidance" feature on June 15.

This feature uses the help panel to explain what to do after selecting a suggested edit. For instance, if a newcomer selects a copyedit task, they are guided on what sorts of errors to look for. They can see examples of how to rewrite the text. You can try this feature on test.wikipedia.org. First enable the homepage and the help panel in your preferences there.

Since we launched "Guidance", the data we collected show good results (see image). Now, we see more users completing suggested edits than before Guidance was deployed.

Structured tasks


ST>Growth/Personalized first day/Structured tasks|Structured tasks is a project that aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps. We hope newcomers can accomplish these tasks easily.

In the previous newsletter, 13>mw:Growth/Newsletters/13#STdiscussion|we asked for feedback from community members on the idea. We had a good discussion in six languages with 35 community members (S>mw:Growth/Personalized first day/Structured tasks#Community discussion|summary here). We have now posted WF>mw:Growth/Personalized first day/Structured tasks#Initial wireframes|new design mockups. We hope community members can check the mockups out and feedback>mw:Talk:Growth/Personalized first day/Structured tasks|react to them (in any language). They are posted along with some of the main questions we are thinking about as we continue to refine our plans.

Other technical updates



 * We are currently CD>mw:Growth/Growth team updates#Update 2020-07-17: working on Variants C and D|working on Variants C and D (adjacent image) of the homepage. The goal is to increase the number of newcomers who start the newcomer tasks workflow. This is the team's main project at the moment.
 * We've made it easier to hide the help panel when not needed.
 * The WS>mw:Growth/Personalized first day/Welcome survey|welcome survey has a new question for people who created their account: language skills. The goal is to find out how many newcomers know multiple languages, so that we can learn whether it is a good idea to integrate CX>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Content translation|Content Translation as a newcomer task. To make room for this question, we removed one that is not being used.

Community outreach

 * We continue to engage with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth features to Persian, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias. Learn more about Get>mw:Growth/Communities/Get the Growth experiments on your wiki|getting the features.
 * If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team, contact>mw:Talk:Growth|please contact us! We have already participated to two community events online:
 * The wmpl>wmpl:Konferencja_Wikimedia_Polska_2020</>|Polish Wikiconference ([<tvar|GD>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SRn_qkj4TSvOppHrVAR6PNXdDwKWlBCp/view</> recording on Google Drive])
 * The CK>m:Celtic Knot Conference 2020</>|Celtic Knot 2020 ([<tvar|YT>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJ_0aqgPg</> video available on Youtube]).

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