Growth/Newsletters/24

Newcomer experience projects
The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:


 * Thank you pages & banners: Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
 * Marketing experiment: Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.


 * "Add an image" GLAM events: Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.


 * Welcome emails: Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.

Newcomer tasks

 * We fulfilled a community request to direct more "add a link" suggested edits toward articles that don't currently have many wikilinks (internal links). This change prioritize "underlinked" articles is released to Growth pilot wikis, and we will release to more wikis after a period of data and feedback gathering
 * The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress.

Mentorship

 * When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria.
 * Workshop hosts can soon use a custom URL parameter to ensure workshop attendees are assigned to a specific mentor. This will allow a workshop host to continue to mentor the event's attendees even after the workshop has ended.


 * Help new editors on your wiki by signing up to be a Mentor. Please visit Special:ManageMentors to sign up.
 * If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed.

Other news

 * In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section.
 * This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.


 * Newsletter translation: We are looking for translators for this newsletter. If you are interested and have the needed English language proficiency to assist, then please add your name to this list. You will receive an invite on your talk page to translate the newsletter when it is ready.
 * Interface translation: You can also help by translating the interface, or reviewing translations to make them more inclusive. Interface translations are hosted at translatewiki.net.