Growth/Communities/Community events reports

This page lists community events Growth team members and supporters attended, and where Growth features were presented or mentioned. Notes listed below reflect the opinion of the attendees.

Wikiconvention Francophone, November 2022
Report by Trizek (WMF)

Growth hosted a presentation of Growth features evolution across the 5 last years. The room was too small for the number of people who attended.

I also attended sessions about newcomers experiences, newcomers feedback, help pages, improving best practices, etc.

Main takeaways from the entire conference:


 * Most people were not aware of what we achieved over the 5 last years.
 * Most people were stunned by what we achieved, and how good our data is.
 * Suggested copyedit raised a lot of eyebrows as there are several standards for French language. As the event was also about minor languages spoken across the francophonie, some users were concerned of being left aside because no dictionary exists for their language.
 * People asked for a per-country filter, to help their workshops.
 * Non-Wikipedia wikis asked when specific task for their needs would be available, or if an option would be provided to allow them to create their own tasks.
 * Several users were looking for a mentor. It was particularly true for people who created their account a while ago, but haven't yet edited "for real". As their account is too old, they can't find their mentor. Going through preferences wasn't easy for them.
 * While translations are popular, there is no way to ask a question to your mentor while you translate an article. And you mentor can't access your translation.

Mentorship was added to https://ary.wikipedia.org/.

Report by Dyolf77 (WMF)

WikiIndaba 2022, November 2022
Report by Dyolf77 (WMF)

A dedicated table for a live demonstration of the tools for experienced Wikimedians.

WikiArabia 2022, October 2022
Report by Dyolf77 (WMF) Growth team tools for newcomers was presented in a session. The session was delayed and was rescheduled in parallel with another session in the first day of the conference:
 * Majority of attendees was new editors who wanted to manage workshop with newcomers;
 * One mentor was able to join the session;
 * Questions and feedback from attendees:
 * "Great tool, I wish I had the same assistance at my early times on wikis!";
 * "We want mentors for specific mentees!";
 * "In a workshop, how to assign mentors for the learners without disturbing them with changing their initial mentors?"
 * From the mentor: "It will be very helpful to offer a VRTS like system to handle questions from newcomers."

Wikimedia Spain annual meeting
Report by Zapipedia (WMF) In November 2022, WMES celebrated the ninth edition of their annual conference. It was an in-person meeting.

Growth hosted a presentation of Growth features during the event:
 * It was the last session of the day and the room was crowded (around 30 attendants, probably more).
 * Attendants were mainly experienced users that have been editing Wikipedia for many years. Just a few newcomers attended.
 * Just before Growth session, a current mentor of our mentorship give a related short talk titled "From tutoring to mentoring: a new program to help newcomers". He was really enthusiastic with our project.
 * Another 2 mentors attended (3 in total). One of them joined just a few days before the meeting and was kind of frustrated because he did not received any question yet from his mentees. The other 2 mentors, that joined before the deployment of the mentorship in es.wp, were happy and commit with their mission, but they felt they received too much questions and have too many mentees assigned.
 * Some attendant show interest in becoming mentors, but at the same time they claim to have no much time for it.
 * Apart from mentorship, attendants were really surprised to learn more regarding our features.
 * Most people were not aware of what we have already done.
 * Some of them, specially women, tell that they would have like to have these features when they started editing.
 * Some newcomers told that they were planning to start using our features.