Growth/Communities/Get the Growth experiments on your wiki
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Getting the features[edit]
You wish to have the features deployed on your wiki?
If your wiki is a version of Wikipedia, you don't need to do anything. The features are already available at your wiki, and you can configure them locally.
If your wiki is not a Wikipedia, please:
- check the conditions
- contact us to inform the Growth team
- fill a Phabricator task.
The deployment of the Growth team features will happen soon on your wiki? Or your wiki agreed on getting the tools?
Here are some resources to help you with this deployment.
You can ask for help on the talk page.
You can also try the tools.
How the deployment process works[edit]
- The Growth team deploys the features in "dark mode". The features are available to anyone who enables the features in their preferences.
- The Growth contacts the wiki, because this wikis is eligible for the deployment.
- The community is in charge of testing the features and improving the default settings provided:
- The interface needs to be translated, or the translations have to be checked. This is done both on translatewiki and at the local configuration page (
Special:EditGrowthConfig). This guidance page can help you understanding this translation work. - Help links are checked on the local configuration page
- Maintenance templates are checked on the local configuration page
- The interface needs to be translated, or the translations have to be checked. This is done both on translatewiki and at the local configuration page (
- The test period runs on two weeks.
- If no major blocker is identified by the Growth team, then the features are deployed to all new accounts.
If the wiki contacts the Growth team, then the Growth team checks of the deployment is possible following the defined conditions. If so, the Growth team processes the same way for the deployment.
We also provide some useful information both for mentors and newcomers, and these pages have to be translated as well.
Translations[edit]
Mandatory translations[edit]
- Translate the interface (done on translatewiki.net, which needs a specific account)
- Translate these aliases for the interface:
- "Special:WelcomeSurvey"
- "Special:Homepage"
- "Special:Impact"
- "Special:ClaimMentee"
- Growth/Focus on help desk/Help panel - standard help link to use the Help panel
- Growth/Communities/How to interact with newcomers - standard help link for mentors)
- Help:Growth/Tools and subpages - help pages for mentors and newcomers
- Translations used on the Help panel:
- How to write a good article
- How to edit a page
- How to insert images
- How to insert references
- How to create an article
Other translations[edit]
- Translate the documentation
- Growth/Personalized first day - optional
- Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage - optional
- Growth/Understanding first day - optional
- Growth/Focus on help desk - optional
Configuration[edit]
The configuration for the Growth features will be available at Special:EditGrowthConfig on your wiki.
Here are the Wikidata pages where we find the templates and help pages to fill Special:EditGrowthConfig on your wiki.
You can edit this special page locally and change the links and templates, as far as they fit the description of each task.
Help panel
Help pages
| Task | Label | Link |
| Manual of style | How to write a good article | Q4994848 |
| Help:Editing | How to edit a page | Q151637 or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide |
| Inserting images (using the visual editor) | How to insert images | Q27919584 or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide#Images |
| Inserting references (using the visual editor) | How to insert references | Q24238629 or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide#Editing_references |
| Article Wizard | How to create an article[1] | Q10968373 or Q4966605 |
- Read more : Q914807
Mentorship module (optional)
- Signature list: Q14339834
- Manual list of mentors (rarely used for new communities, but worth having it in the script anyway): Q100973200
Suggested edits
| Task | Task description | Level of difficulty | Maintenance templates | Learn more link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copyedit article | Fix spelling, grammar and tone | Easy | Q6292692, Q6706206, Q6931087, Q7656698, Q6931386 | Q10953805 |
| Add Links | Add links between articles | Easy | Q13107723, Q5849007, Q5621858 | Q27919580 or Q75275496, or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide#Editing_links |
| Update article | Bring existing articles up-to-date | Medium | Q5617874, Q14337093 | Q4664141 |
| Add References | Find sources for existing articles | Medium | Q5962027, Q6192879 | Q79951 or Q642335 |
| Expand article | Expand stubs to become sourced articles | Hard | Q5529697, Q5623589, Q5866533 | Q10973854 or Q4663261 |
| Create an article | Add a new page to Wikipedia | Hard | N/A[1] | |
Mentoring (optional)[edit]
How this works[edit]
Mentors are important: they help newcomers to make safe first steps on the wiki.
Each newcomer has a random mentor assigned to them automatically. There is no obligation for the newcomer to contact their mentor.
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. We advise to have a minimum of 3 mentors. Have more mentors than needed will decrease the effort.
Configuration[edit]
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
Conditions to get the features[edit]
The Growth team has deployed the features to all Wikipedias. But 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:
- Our pilot Wikipedias – we address all the feedback they give us.
- Wikipedias – they get the features as they are, but we may consider suggestions of improvements from those wikis.
- 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 features are listed above.
Other MediaWiki wikis, not hosted by Wikimedia, can check on Extension:GrowthExperiments to get the features.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Create an article" is not a task. In Suggested edits, there is a placeholder for this task, but the button is grey, inactive. Create an article is a very complicated task. It is actually the sum of all other maintenance tasks suggested. So encourage people to work on other tasks, before trying to create an article. However, we don't want to block newcomers from creating an article. This is why we provide a link to an help page to create a new article.
Before June 2021, this process was different. Please see the archived version for comparison. The creation of the new process is documented on Phabricator.