Growth/Newsletters/24

Highlights

 * This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.

Experiments

 * Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer experience marketing pilot/Welcome emails experiment, September 2022
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321370

Suggesting links task updates

 * Community members have suggested that we direct newcomers' energies toward those articles that need links the most. We changed how articles are selected, so that underlinked articles are more suggested than they were before.
 * The deployment of Suggested links to all Wikipedias changed. Suggested links use a prediction model. This model has to be trained. We used to train a few models, deploy them, and then move to the next group of models. Now all models are trained, and we wait for all models to be trained to deploy the feature to the wikis. If your community wishes to get Suggested links in advance, let us know.

News for mentors

 * When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed when they don't meet the defined criterias.
 * Workshop hosts asked us if they can get newcomers they meet assigned to them. A new parameter allows workshop hosts to create a custom URL when newcomers create an account so that workshop attendees are assigned to them.

Volunteer to be a mentor!

 * Your wiki might looks for mentors. Please visit special:ManageMentors to sign up.
 * If your wiki has no mentorship yet, consider to have one!
 * If you have questions about interactions with newcomers, look for our advice.

Other

 * In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section.

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