Growth/Annual Plan 2023-2024

The Growth team's work is guided by the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan, and specifically Product & Technology department's Objectives and Key Results.

This year's (draft) Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) do not include a key result specifically addressing new editors or newcomer retention. However, there are several ways for the Growth team to support other annual plan objectives and key results in the Wiki Experiences plan area.

We expect that about half of our time will be devoted to annual planning priorities in the coming year, while the other half will be spent on technical maintenance and committed work (work that needs to be done due to some external commitment).

Committed work

 * IP Masking: The Growth team is responsible for several aspects of the IP Masking project.
 * Actively Maintained Projects: We will continue to scale out work completed in the previously fiscal year, like Add a link, Add an image, and Positive reinforcement. We will also provide maintenance support for core Growth functionality like GrowthExperiments, Link recommendations, and Mentorship.
 * Passively Maintained Projects: The Growth team is currently the maintainer of many other extensions and features. Bugs and issues coming up on these projects will only receive attention if the issue is urgent, affects a large number of users and needs to be unbroken immediately.

First annual planning priority
The Growth team's first annual planning will relate to Contributor experience, key result 1.2 and will involve moving the Community configuration feature from the GrowthExperiments extension to MediaWiki core.

Potential annual planning priorities
After the Growth team has completed our committed work and our first annual planning priority related to Community configuration, the Growth team will focus on a second project that relates to Wiki Experiences. However there are several different potential Growth team projects that are still in discussion.

Research & experimentation
We hope to fit in a small amount of time to research and experiment with the following ideas:

Community discussion
Any project the Growth team pursues will include community consultations with Growth pilot wikis, and other impacted user groups.

Focus group discussion about Contributor experience 1.2
Moderators conversation: The call is intended to provide more clarity for the product and technology departments, ensuring we hear directly from moderators about what they think needs to be done to improve moderation workflows. The focus group call is scheduled for 4th May 2023, from 17:00 to 18:00 UTC. During the call, we would like to discuss the following questions in particular, but we are open to discussing needs in general and can talk a little about some projects we're considering:


 * 1) How do you determine where your attention is needed when navigating your project?
 * 2) How do you prioritize what needs your attention?
 * 3) What are your "Power tools" and why?
 * 4) What one change to software would improve your workflow / make your life easier?

Community consultation about Growth's annual plan hypotheses
As part of (T336608), we will engage with community moderators (editors with advanced rights, such as patrollers, administrators, and functionaries) to discuss ideas around Contributor experience, key result 1.2. We will collect feedback from English Wikipedia moderators, as well as feedback from our Growth Pilot Wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia.