Task recommendations for Wikipedia Editors

This document describes ways we can automatically suggest tasks to Wikipedia editors.

Context
This is a Growth team project for 2014. This is a followup project to the work on onboarding new Wikipedians, which uses guided tours to teach people to make their first edit. Once we have completed work to bring in additional active editors, the natural next step is to focus on fixing problems that prevent retention of these new Wikipedians. and the beginnings of an interest graph for registered users.

Current user experience
Currently, there are few systems for proactively suggesting ways to improve the encyclopedia. Simple suggestion systems (like SuggestBot on English Wikipedia) have proven to be effective tools for engagement, but there is no single destination for users to find new things to do.

Advanced editors may

Option one: augment existing destinations
See also: user contributions designs for mobile

Related work

 * Special:GettingStarted
 * The English Wikipedia Community portal redesign, which included an open task list
 * What should I edit, which explored how to present data on new articles gathered by bots
 * Micro contributions on mobile