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 Welcome to the fourteenth newsletter from the Growth>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth|Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in midsize>mw:Special:MyLanguage/New Editor Experiences/Midsize Wikipedias|mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Guidance
We released our Guidance project on June 15.

This feature explains to users what to do when they select a suggested edit. For instance, if they select a copyedit task, they are guided on what to find and they get some best practices on how to rewrite the text. You can try this feature on test.wikipedia.org (enable first the homepage and the help panel in your preferences on this wiki).

Since we launched Guidance, the data we collected show good results (see image). We have more edits made than before Guidance exists. Since the release we have worked on small improvements to this feature.

Structured tasks
Structured tasks project aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps that newcomers can accomplish easily.

On the previous newsletter, we asked for feedback from community members. We have new design ideas posted for structured tasks, and we want community members to check them out and react to them. They're posted along with some of the main questions we're thinking about. (include image from the designs).

Other technical changes

 * We are working on Variant C and D of the homepage, with the goal of increasing the number of newcomers who start the newcomer tasks workflow. This is the team's main project at the moment.
 * The way users can hide and display the help panel has been changed.
 * The Welcome survey has a new choice for people who created their account: language skills. The goal is to find out how many newcomers have language skills, so that we can decide whether it is a good idea to integrate Content Translation as a newcomer task.
 * We removed the "do you want to have a mentor?" question on the Welcome Survey since we don't need it anymore. by default, every newcomer gets a mentor and is free to contact them.
 * At the moment, questions asked through the Help panel are posted on the local Help desk. Czech Wikipedia is trying a new configuration, where the questions will be posted at the mentee's mentor talk page.

Community outreach

 * We are still engaging with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth tools to Persian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. Know more about getting the features.
 * We have participated to the Polish Wikiconference (recording) and posted a video (available on Youtube) for the Celtic Knot 2020. Both events were online. If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team, please contact us!

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