Growth/Newsletters/22

Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone
As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.


 * About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
 * Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

Add a Link Experiment Analysis
Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:


 * Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
 * They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
 * The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Add an image used for GLAM events
Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia.

For mentors
The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will have to signup and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will allow us to provide new features to mentors. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Learn more about this new structured page. With this deployment, administrators will be able to edit the mentors' list. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310292

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the next weeks:


 * While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to definitely quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312122
 * Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to find out their mentees' pending edits. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297811
 * Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290644

Recent changes

 * We are moving to a new Image Suggestions API (T306032).
 * We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types and by wiki.

Problems

 * Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311916