Growth/Newsletters/20

 Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks

 * We crossed 300,000 suggested edits completed, since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.


 * "Add an image" is the new team's structured task, currently in development. It is an editing task that suggests Commons images for unillustrated Wikipedia articles. We have conducted many community discussions and tests. Then, we've decided to build a first prototype. We'll first deploy it only to our pilot Wikipedias, to learn whether newcomers can be successful with the task. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. These prototypes have already been tested by newcomers, in English and Spanish.


 * Add a link and Add an image now have quality gates. It means that newcomers have a daily limit on the number of tasks they can work on.

News for mentors
The Mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.

The mentor dashboard has a new module. It is now possible for mentors to define their statut (active or away). They can define the volume of questions they receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign of their mentees to other mentors.

We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287915

Previously, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that mentees with at least 1 edit are visible by defaults. Mentors can change this value in their filters. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301268

We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264343

Has your wiki created a userbox for mentors? Please link it to Q109498957!

Scaling
Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for test purposes, in order to have a comparison group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias (except a few, kept as test wikis) get the Growth features. We invite communities to upgrade their onboarding ressources.

News for communities
Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.

Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by [ https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-growthexperiments&language=&filter=&action=translate translating or copyediting] interface translations for the Growth features.

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