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Welcome to the sixteenth newsletter from the 1>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth|Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in 1>mw:Special:MyLanguage/New Editor Experiences/Midsize Wikipedias|mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Newcomers task experiments results
In November 2019, the Growth team added the "newcomer tasks" feature to the newcomer homepage. After six months of experiment, we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias. We analyzed the global impact of the Growth features, including newcomer tasks.

This analysis finds that the Growth feature "newcomer tasks" leads to increases in: We also find that the quality of their edits is comparable to that of a control group.
 * the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)
 * the probability that they are retained as editors
 * the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+85,6%)

You can find more details about this experiment on the report page.

Variant C and D
1>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Growth team updates#Update 2020-07-17: working on Variants C and D|Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed it at the beginning of November. After two weeks of these variants being deployed, we can spot a difference, and the number of interactions increased.

News for mentors
A separate list for workshops hosts

During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without getting people they don't know randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. list>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to_introduce_yourself_as_a_mentor#separate-list|Know more about this feature.

Claiming multiple mentees at once

Mentors can use special:ClaimMentees to have a newcomer being assigned to them. Now, Mentors can claim multiple Newcomers at once.

Community news

 * The Help desk module allows people to post a message to the local Help desk while editing. The tool posted messages at te bottom of help desks by default, like any new messages. Wikis using top-posting are now supported. T261714

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