Topic on Talk:Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage

It would be amazing to bring the homepage over to WikiProject pages. Relatively few things would need to be changed, for example "your mentor" should be changed to "helpful editors", and have it be composed of knowledgeable editors in the WikiProject. Making it customizable would allow WikiProjects to provide specific links and advice for its volunteers. I'm imagining the Article Alert bot system gets replicated as a tile. The possibilities are endless

Hi @JackFromWisconsin -- thank you for checking out the Growth projects! I agree that there is a lot of potential for the newcomer homepage when it comes to WikiProjects. The way we're thinking about the homepage is that each person has their own personal page, as opposed to it being like a common page that many people visit. It sounds like you're talking about an idea in which it would be possible for each WikiProject to set up a structured front page that shows the most important people and tasks in their project, sort of like how highly-developed projects like WikiProject Medicine have done with templates. Is that how you're thinking about it?

In terms of the homepage in the way we designed, there are several ideas we've had that relate to WikiProjects:

• The task list could allow users to select tasks that are under the auspices of certain WikiProjects, like "Medicine" tasks or "Women in Red" tasks.
• After users select topics of interest, it could recommend WikiProjects that they could watch or join.
• We could assign mentors to newcomers based on which WikiProjects the mentors are active in matching the interests of the newcomer.

What are your thoughts? Are there particular projects in which you're active?