Growth/Newsletters/19



Welcome to the nineteenth 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.

Structured tasks
Add a link at +10 wikis

Add an image prototypes

News for mentors
Mentor dashboard to be tested on pilot wikis soon.

Community configuration
A new filter is available for mentors. They can monitor their mentees' activity in watchlist and RecentChanges. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239241

Scaling
Several Wikipedias have started a trial of the features: English Wikipedia gave the features to 5% of newcomers and considers to move to 25%, German Wikipedia started the trial on 30% of newcomers and Dutch started a trial by giving the features to 50% of newcomers.

The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289786

We are continuing the deployment of the Growth features to all Wikipedias. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275069

News for communities
A Deployment table has been created to track the different deployments at the wikis.

The Growth team has published a translatable a FAQ. You can find there the most common questions we hear from community members and our replies.

Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.

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