Growth/Newsletters/14

 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 guidance>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, and 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).

Since we launched "guidance", the data we collected show good results (see image). We are now seeing 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 that newcomers can accomplish easily.

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

Other technical updates



 * We are currently working on Variants C and D (adjacent image) of the homepage, with the goal of increasing 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 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 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>Growth/Communities/Get the Growth experiments on your wiki|getting the features.
 * We have participated to two community events online: the wmpl>wmpl:Konferencja_Wikimedia_Polska_2020|Polish Wikiconference ([https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SRn_qkj4TSvOppHrVAR6PNXdDwKWlBCp/view recording on Google Drive]) and posted the CK>m:Celtic Knot Conference 2020|Celtic Knot 2020 ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJ_0aqgPg</> video available on Youtube]). 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!

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