Growth/Growth team updates/2023

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Update 2023-02-03: Positive reinforcement, Mentorship for workshop attendees, & "Try editing" prompt for donors

 * Positive Reinforcement
 * Impact Module
 * The new Impact module is released as an A/B test to Growth pilot wikis and we’ve released several minor improvements and bug fixes (T327849, T324675, T327824). Next up we will complete experiment analysis to determine how this change has affected newcomers (T327581).
 * Leveling Up
 * We are wrapping up some analysis to better understand where we should set baseline Leveling Up prompts (T322433)
 * Engineering work has started on improving the post-edit dialog when a newcomer has topics or tasks selected that result in no suggestions (T324177).
 * The main purpose of Leveling up work is to encourage newcomers to try new and more difficult types of tasks, and our initial work on that effort has started (T322386).
 * Personalized Praise
 * The backend work needed to support the new “personalized praise” module on the Mentor dashboard has been completed (T322444).
 * Mentorship
 * Workshop hosts now have an option to claim workshop attendees as mentees (T323038). Example:
 * A newcomer goes to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount?forceMentor=Trizek|Martin_Urbanec
 * When the newcomer completes their account from this URL, then they will have either Trizek or Martin_Urbanec as their mentor.
 * Newcomer experience projects
 * Special account creation pages for donors are now available on SV, IT, JA, FR, and NL Wikipedias (T321370). This work expands the Thank you page experiment in which we encouraged donors in certain languages / on certain wikis to try editing Wikipedia.
 * Welcome Survey
 * Vietnamese Wikipedia now has a newcomer welcome survey (T325376).

Update 2023-01-27: Positive reinforcement, SpecialPages, PageTriage, & Mentorship

 * Positive Reinforcement
 * We added more details to the Positive Reinforcement project page about some initial experiment data (T323788).  And we’ve now gathered enough data that we can start the full experiment analysis (T327581).
 * We’ve been busy finishing Impact module work (T222310). The Growth team is now shifting to focus on Leveling Up work (T317813) and Personalized Praise work (T317817).
 * Growth SpecialPages
 * Now you can find all Growth SpecialPages together under “Growth tools” on Special:SpecialPages.
 * Check Special:NewcomerTasksInfo for an overview of which topics newcomers are editing on your wiki.
 * PageTriage
 * The Moderator Tools team is gradually taking over ownership of PageTriage and has a project planned to work on improvements to PageTriage.
 * In the meantime the Growth team added some better baseline instrumentation: PageTriage Debugging Grafana dashboard (T324747).
 * Mentorship
 * When someone wants to sign up as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria (T321500).

Update 2023-01-19: Newcomer experience projects & Positive reinforcement update

 * Newcomer experience projects
 * The Growth team has been partnering with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments aimed at increasing new editor activation and retention. An overview of the four main projects completed are available here: Newcomer experience projects
 * Positive reinforcement
 * There are three parts to the Positive reinforcement project, and we are nearly complete with the first. The work needed to complete the new Impact module is almost complete (T222310). The Growth team is now shifting to focus on Leveling Up (T317813) and Personalized Praise (T317817).
 * Welcome survey
 * On January 30th, we will deploy the welcome survey to Vietnamese Wikipedia (T325376). After this update, all language editions of Wikipedia with Growth tools enabled will receive the Welcome survey.
 * Newcomer experience + New article creation
 * A few Growth team members are meeting with New Pages Patrol representatives and other English wikipedia community members to discuss improvements for newcomers who come to the wikis primarily interested in article creation (meeting details). The Growth team hopes to learn more about current NPP challenges and consider how a project around Article Creation for Newcomers fits into the plans of the Growth team. If this project is prioritized we will spend more time gathering feedback from other wikis and especially focus on feedback from new editors.

Update 2023-01-13: Positive reinforcement updates and Mentorship improvement

 * Positive Reinforcement
 * We released several Impact module improvements including a change to the logic of how we are displaying “Total edits” (T325216).
 * The new Impact module is still being A/B tested on Pilot wikis. We will conduct a thorough analysis once the experiment has run long enough to gather retention metrics, but in the meantime the impact module leading indicators appear healthy.
 * Thanks has been added to Watchlists, Contributions, and Recent Changes (T51541, T90404). We will soon work on design ideas for improvements to the confirmation step (T315859).
 * Mentorship
 * We have worked on a few changes recently to help ensure that when a Mentor is blocked locally or globally they don’t continue to receive questions from mentees (T325087, T318819).
 * Add a Link
 * Newcomers at Growth pilot wikis will now receive “add a link” suggestions for articles that are more clearly "underlinked" (T301096). After discussing this change with Pilot communities and looking at “add a link” metrics we will decide if this change should be released to more wikis.