Growth/Newsletters/10

Welcome to the tenth newsletter from the Growth team!

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

Due to Wikimania, this newsletter is delivered in September.

Task recommandations
Based on the first data we have about the Homepage usage, the Growth team has decided to focus on task recommandations as a new prototype.

We think that newcomers should have every opportunity to succeed when they first arrive at the wiki. But frequently, newcomers attempt a task that is too difficult for them, can't find a task they want to do, or can't find ideas for how to remain involved after their first edit. This leads to many of them leaving and not coming back. There have been successful attempts in the past at recommending tasks to editors, and so we believe that the newcomer homepage is a potential place to recommend relevant tasks for newcomers.

You have experienced something like task recommandations on your wiki? Please share it with us!

General news

 * The Growth team was co-hosting a "Community Growth" space at Wikimania. This was the opportunity to share about and discover new tools, community initiatives and processes that help communities to grow.
 * Your community can ask to have the Growth team experiments deployed on your wiki. We encourage to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. If so, you to open the discussion on your wiki and start the process to get the features, using the checklist.


 * The "ask on help desk" module on the Homepage was not used. We have removed it. Newcomers can still contact their mentor from the Homepage. (T232548)

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