Growth/Newsletters/28

Community configuration 2.0

 * All known high-level engineering tasks are documented under Community Configuration 2.0 Epic.
 * The Growth team reviewed the Editing team’s Edit Check configuration code. The current Edit Check approach should be compatible with Community configuration 2.0. (T330112).
 * We are working to prepare proof of concept code for the Community Configuration schema provider. The initial code shows how validation would work, but it doesn't include the actual validation logic (T342575 & T332847).
 * Initial design prototypes are drafted for two different design styles that we will soon demo to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you want to provide feedback on designs.

IP Masking

 * The Growth team is updating Recent Changes to be compatible with IP Masking (T343322).
 * We have completed the work needed to update Echo notifications to work with IP Masking, and documented the default notification preferences for temporary accounts (T333531).
 * We have made sure the Mentorship features are compatible with IP Masking (T341390). Temporary accounts will not be assigned to Mentors or surfaced to Mentors as part of Growth's Positive Reinforcement features. Only users with an account will get a mentor.


 * Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking (T346108).

Mentorship

 * We assembled some ressources for mentors at Help:Growth/Mentorship. This ressource page is translatable. It will be linked from the mentor dashboard.
 * When mentors mark themselves as away, they don't get any newcomer assigned to them when they return back. We are working on this issue. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347024

Other news

 * We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data (T344428).
 * We disabled the “Add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
 * At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. Concerned wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [3]
 * You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikipedia Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
 * We continue scaling Add a link to all Wikipedias. We plan to finish this task by the end of 2023.
 * After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for our experiments.