Growth/Feature summary/pl



Research has shown that newcomers struggle to edit and continue editing Wikipedia because of three main challenges: technical, conceptual, and cultural. They currently do not have access to the resources they need to surmount those challenges. To give these things to newcomers, the WMF Growth team has built three interconnected features, described in more detail below. The objective is to increase the retention of new editors.


 * Zadania dla nowicjuszy: zbiór proponowanych zadań, które pomogą nowicjuszom w nauce edytowania. Dzięki temu nowicjusze będą wykonywać produktywne zmiany!
 * Strona nowicjusza: specjalna strona zawierająca "zadania nowicjuszy" i będąca dla nich przydatnym miejscem na start.
 * Panel pomocy: system zapewniający wsparcie nowicjuszom w trakcie edytowania.

Wszystkie te funkcje są dostępne w wersji stacjonarnej jak i mobilnej. Istnieje też możliwość włączenia i korzystania z nich przez zaawansowanych edytorów.

Więcej informacji o zespole Growth znajduje się na tej stronie mediawiki.org.

Zadania dla nowicjuszy
We are most excited about this feature, because it seems to be prompting newcomers to make productive edits. This is a workflow that suggests articles to edit, shown to users via the "suggested edits module" on the newcomer homepage. Newcomers are able to choose from different types of edits (based on maintenance templates) and filter to topics of interest (based on ORES models). They then can choose from a feed of articles to work on. Once on an article, the help panel will provide guidance on how to complete the edit.

Results so far


 * Do marca 2020 r. 550 nowicjuszy wykonało 3083 edycji dzięki temu mechanizmowi (Wikipedia arabska, czeska, koreańska i wietnamska).
 * They are making copyedits, adding links, and sometimes adding new content with references.
 * Około 75% z tych edycji nie zostało wycofanych, co jest wynikiem zbliżonym do odsetka anulowanych edycji nowicjuszy nie korzystających z tego narzędzia.
 * 13% of these users make 5 or more suggested edits.
 * 9% of these users make suggested edits on 3 or more days.

For more information about newcomer tasks, see this page on mediawiki.org.

Newcomer homepage
This special page hosts the newcomer tasks workflow, and contains other modules that give newcomers access to the most important things they need to see on their first day. After creating their account, newcomers see a popup (and some other notifications) encouraging them to visit their homepage, which is accessible through the link to their username along the top of their browser window. Though the team is still experimenting with different modules, here are modules that may appear on the homepage:


 * Start module: encourages users to do a tutorial, add or confirm their email address, and create a userpage.
 * Help module: lists links to commonly visited help pages.
 * Mentorship module: assigns each newcomer an experienced user, and gives an easy way to post questions to the mentor's talk page. Mentors volunteer to take part by signing up.
 * Impact module: shows newcomers the number of pageviews on each of the articles they have edited.
 * Suggested edits module: see "Newcomer tasks" above.

Results so far


 * The majority of newcomers visit their homepage, and many of them return to visit their homepage on subsequent days.
 * 3,262 mentor questions have been asked as of March 2020.
 * The homepage increases the number of newcomers who have confirmed email addresses.

For more information about the newcomer homepage, see this page on mediawiki.org.

Help panel
This is a box that newcomers can open while they are editing. It does four things:


 * Guides newcomers while they do suggested edits.
 * Lists links to commonly visited help pages.
 * Allows newcomers to search for other help and policy pages.
 * Allows newcomers to ask a question directly to the help desk.

The help panel appears in both the wikitext and visual editors. When we deploy this feature, we make sure that a wiki's existing help desk (or Teahouse) will work with the features, and that experienced users watching the help desk are willing to receive the incoming questions.

Results so far


 * About 20% of newcomers who see the help panel open it up, and about 50% of those who open it up interact with it.
 * The help panel on its own does not increase newcomer edits, but we have retained this feature because we use it to provide guidance as part of the promising newcomer tasks flow described above.

For more information about the help panel, see this page on mediawiki.org.