Growth/Newsletters/26

One million!
We passed the 1 Million suggested edits milestone late April
 * The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. [ 2]
 * Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. [ 3]
 * Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
 * Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. [ 4]

Growth team annual planning

 * We published the current state of our annual planning. Like other Wikimedia Foundation teams, this plan covers the fiscal year, from July 1st to June 30.

Positive reinforcement

 * We conducted a second round of community feedback. Based on the findings, we pursued the development work. We deployed Personal praise at our pilot wikis May 24.
 * Mentors there will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.
 * We pursued our work on Leveling up, following our leading indicators and plans, and this feature is now deployed at our pilot wikis. you can also test it at Beta and test.

Add an image

 * We completed our test on models used for Section-level “add an image” T321754. We partnered with the Structured Data team to work on a new section-level variation of the “add an image” task. We then started our developement work.
 * We made several improvement for Article-level “add an image”. T293711

Impact module

 * The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022.

Research

 * We completed a research project about The "Thank" button use on wikis: Thanks usage. Our quick analysis does not find a clear signal that the wider availability of the feature resulted in more edits being thanked.

Meetings with the community

 * Several Growth team engineers presented Growth related topics to the Hackathon
 * Ankan attended WikiConference India 2023. A summary of the event is available on Growth’s Community events report page.

Other changes

 * Filter AND for Suggested edits will be removed from pilot wikis. We observed that newcomers were leaving the wiki after using this feature. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305408#8719080
 * On May 1st, we scaled Growth features to 100% of new accounts at German Wikipedia.The community, supported by Wikimedia Deutschland was conducting their own analysis of Growth features and Mentorship.
 * We progressively rollout Add a link to more wikis. It is done by language code alphabetical order, and letter J is now deployed.
 * We worked on a project to encourage donors to edit using Growth features Growth/Newcomer experience projects.
 * The Growth team helped fulfill a long-standing request to add Notifications for user page edits (T3876). This was the fourth most voted for item in the 2023 Community Wishlist.