Growth/Communities/Get the Growth experiments on your wiki

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Projects: Understanding first day (EditorJourney) • Personalized first day (Welcome survey , Newcomer homepage , Newcomer tasks , Structured tasks ) • Focus on help desk • Community resources (Get the tools , Resources for communities )

Help contents: Use the tools: (Help panel , Enable the Homepage , How to claim a mentee , Suggested edits )

Latest news: Growth team updates • Newsletters • Contact

Communities that have the features deployed[edit]

You wish to have the features deployed on your wiki?

Please:

  1. check the conditions
  2. contact us to inform the Growth team
  3. fill a Phabricator task.

Create a pre-filled Phabricator task

The deployment of the Growth team features will happen soon on your wiki. Here are some resources to help you with this deployment.

You can ask for help on the talk page.


How this works?[edit]

This page lists some Wikidata items that match templates or help pages. The links there are possible suggestions of templates or help pages.

We need your community to provide links to wikipages. It is not mandatory to have these wikipages linked to Wikidata: you can provide any link that would work.

Please contact us if you have questions!

Translations[edit]

The interface needs to be translated, or the translations have to be checked.

Most important translations

Other translations

Help panel[edit]

Help panel translations

The help panel is deployed on namespaces 0 "Main", 2 "User" and 4 "Help". Namespaces other than 0 "Main" can be changed by locally editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json

Where questions are posted ("help desk")[edit]

The Help panel help newcomers to post questions to the local help desk. The Help desk will post these messages:

  1. first on Newcomers friendly place listed on Q11059110
  2. if there is no newcomer friendly place, on an Ask a question place listed on Q5621643
  3. if there is no such place on the Village pump listed on Q16503

This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

The page where questions are posted can be locally changed by editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json

Archiving the help desk This may change[edit]

  • Is your help desk a traditional page or a Flow page?
  • How is your help desk archived? By bot? Manually? Weekly? Yearly? Does it has a special configuration, like subpages Wikipedia:Help desk/2020-05 or a template like Wikipedia:Helpdesk/{{Y-M|0}}?

Pages listed in the help panel[edit]

5 most important help pages newcomers should have access to when editing are listed in the help panel.

By default, these pages are:

  • Manual of style, taken from Q4994848
  • Help:Editing, taken from Q151637
  • Insert images using the visual editor, taken from Q27919584
  • Insert a citation using the visual editor, taken from Q24238629
  • Article Wizard, taken from Q10968373

If a page is not listed on Wikidata you can:

  • before the deployment, list it on the matching Wikidata item before the deployment (you may have to create it first),
  • after the deployment, no link will not be displayed.

Choosing different pages

These pages can be changed by locally editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json.

Here is some advice about help pages:

  • If you wish to change a page, we advise you to review the new page and enrich it first. For instance, check if the page is well illustrated, if it presents the different steps needed to achieve something
  • We recommend using the visual editor.
  • We recommend to prefer step-by-step tutorials.
  • We recommend to keep a link about how to add images to articles. It is a popular request.

Search function[edit]

The Help panel has a search function. By default, it will search on namespace 4 "Wikipedia" and 12 "Help". You can add more namespaces by locally editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json.

If people need more information, they have access to the main page of the help namespace. The page is listed on Q914807. This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

Homepage[edit]

Homepage translations

Everything setup for the Help panel applies here, plus some extra.

The page displays a tutorial for first steps based on the link found on Q915263. This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

Mentors list[edit]

Mentors are important: they help newcomers to make safe first steps on the wiki.

The Homepage will pick names on the link found on Q14339834. This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

How to format this page is a critical point! Please follow these indications:

  • The format of the page is a list of mentors, using a special format: [[User:Name]]|Description (add no links nor wikitext in it)
  • Protect that page, so that only experienced users can sign-up
  • We recommend having one mentor for every 500 new accounts per month, i.e. if your wiki has 5,000 new accounts per month, you should have 10 mentors signed up in order to handle the volume of incoming questions. Have more mentors than the recommended threshold will decrease the effort needed.

Suggested edits[edit]

Covered by Homepage translations

Suggested edits cover 5 maintenance tasks: Update article, Add references, Add links, Expand article, Copyedit article

Maintenance templates[edit]

Each task is based on maintenance templates:

Task Primary link Fallback link
Update article Q5617874 -
Add References Q5962027 Q6192879
Add Links Q13107723 Q5624688
Expand article Q5529697 Q5623589
Copyedit article Q6292692 -

This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

Some templates have redirects. They can be added by locally editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json

Learn more[edit]

Each task has "learn more" link:

Task Primary link Fallback link
Update article Q4664141 -
Add References Q79951 Q642335
Add Links Q27919580 Q75275496
Expand article Q10973854 Q4663261
Copyedit article Q10953805 -

This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

You can change each link by locally editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json

Additional links[edit]

Suggested Edits needs two more links to work.

Task Primary link Fallback link
Create an article Q4966605 Q10968373
Add an image Q27919584 Q4618557

This is our default configuration. You can also provide a link that is not listed on Wikidata.

You can change each link by locally editing the page MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json

Conditions to get the features[edit]

Any wiki can request to have these features, with the following conditions.

As detailed on our focus, we will work with the following wikis by order of priority:

  1. Wikipedias we in the set of our "target" wikis (Czech, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic) – we address all the feedback they give us.
  2. Mid-sized Wikipedias – they get the features as they are, but we may consider suggestions of improvements from those wikis.
  3. All other Wikimedia projects – they get the features as they are, and the team will not have time to prioritize improvements specific to those wikis.

Bug reports will be prioritized by the Growth team.

Features will all be deployed (no substitutions, except if incompatible with an existing process), as "experiments". Experiments means that a portion of newcomers will receive the features (the treatment group), and a portion will not (the control group). By comparing these two groups, we will be able to measure the impact of the feature on newcomer retention. Some wikis may not have these groups, at the Growth team discretion.

The prerequisites to get the experiments are listed above.

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