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increasing in relation to all English biographies, or to other languages. I'd hope some how we could merge them. It's a very guilty point in my to-do list that I haven't put together a full longitudinal view for WiR so changes can be seen over month-over-month, or year-over-year, only week after week. WHGI actually stores all the necessary data at the moment, just doesn't display it. Which is a grand shame since it would only require just a few hours extra work to put together. I really would hope to do this soon. (Sigh, PhD life!). I guess it would sufficient even now report all the yearly changes in text, without necessarily visualizing it (although that's not even too hard). Long term though I would like to find a collaborator from the community that could maintain the WHGI with me, so that I was not the single point of failure.

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assume above that, and choosing half the invitations by ORES means you will cover a significant range of ORES values in the first population. The only problems are if the "retention" and "posting to TH" are such small fractions of the initial populations in both cases that even a 9k sample does not give a statistically sound estimator of the retention/posting rates, but if so that is going to be a problem no matter the metric you choose. I do understand that choosing the definition of "ORES score", "sticks around" and "posts to TH" should be done beforehand, but afterwards, there are few variables and large sample sizes so any correlation found between them is fair game, no?

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will be able to track about 15+ users per day that "would have been invited, but aren't" which is perfect control group to test an assumption like "P(posts to TH|has been invited) is correlated with ORES score." And as to your last point, yes let's run the experiments and see what the data say, I'm curious myself to know if high-ores score relates to more retention, which if True kind of makes for a circular logic that I agree this AI might be susceptible to.

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Knowledge, Akan Knowledge, Alemannisch Knowledge, Amharic Knowledge, Aragonese Knowledge, Old English Knowledge, Syriac Knowledge, Egyptian Arabic Knowledge, Asturian Knowledge, Atikamekw Knowledge, Avaric Knowledge, Aymara Knowledge, Azerbaijani Knowledge, South Azerbaijani Knowledge. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can

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is better. We deployed these variants on October 19; half of newcomers get each variant. After about 5 weeks, we will analyze the data from the tests. The goal is to determine which variant is helping more newcomers to make more suggested edits. We will identify the better variant and then use it with all newcomers.

4251:-- in which its customary to define the metric beforehand. It seems more like p-hacking to me to later try and see which of your variable correlate, since your explorations are not necessarily driven by theory. BTW I have since done the Power Analysis to determine how many trials we need to see a significant (p: --> 8421:. This special page aims to help mentors be more proactive and be more successful at their role. The first iteration will include a table that shows an overview of the mentors current mentees, a module with their own settings, and a module that will allow them to store their best replies to their mentees questions. 10244: 11773:

on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the

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We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the

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There will be pizza, cake, and refreshments; both newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome! We will have a beginner track with tutorials, and an advanced track with presentations, lightning talks, and tips and tricks. Admission is free, and you do NOT have to be a Stanford University student

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0.05) increase in posting to TeaHouse. Currently the baseline 4% of invitees do. To have an 80% chance in witnessing a 1%-point increase to 5%, we need to have 14,000 samples in each group which means 12 weeks of running the experiment. To see a 2%-point increase to 6% of editors leaving a message we

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Coming from a different background, I am not sure I get why you define m1 and m2 at the design stage. If you can gather lots of data quickly and have few cofounding factors, you can just make your measurements and search exhaustively for correlations in the data ("physics paradigm"). If you have lots

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is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents. In that sense, I have submitted

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At wikis where the mentor dashboard is deployed, a new filter is available for mentors. Mentors can monitor their mentees' activity in Watchlist and RecentChanges, so they can help support their mentees' work. For privacy reasons, this filter can't be accessed by someone else than the mentor itself.

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During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without having other newcomers being randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list

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We think that the 20% open rate and 50% click rate are strong numbers, showing that a lot of people are looking for help, and many want to help themselves by looking at help pages. The somewhat lower numbers of asking questions (especially in Korean Knowledge) has caused us to consider new features

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Regarding m2, I get your point, and it's accurate. A fortunate twist is that because I want the AI to invite 150 users per day and I want the AI to run in real time I decided to tune the invite-threshhold to a level that would on average invite about 165-users per day (10% buffer). That means that I

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Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer

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Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more

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is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links

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are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We hope they will increase the number of users using suggested edits. They both make suggested edits the clear place where newcomers should get started on the page. They have some differences in their workflows, because we want to test which design

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Figured as much; I was hurtling over here to slap down an LTA block on you (somehow we've never crossed paths, so your username was unfamilar to me) when I saw your contribs and thought, "hang on a minute...". Yeah, if you nowiki the template or disable it in some other way (tlx and so forth) it'll

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Is it possible that the lighttpd config file does not get read since the php lives in a subdirectory? If so, do you know if we need "fastcgi.server +=" or "fastcgi.server =" in the file (I commented it out since I did not know and it had no effect anyway). If we made a symbolic link from the home

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We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have a brief presentation for your education and

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feature has been deployed to more wikis: Catalan Knowledge, Hebrew Knowledge, Hindi Knowledge, Korean Knowledge, Norwegian Bokmål Knowledge, Portuguese Knowledge, Simple English Knowledge, Swedish Knowledge, Ukrainian Knowledge, Abkhazian Knowledge, Achinese Knowledge, Adyghe Knowledge, Afrikaans

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is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the

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The Growth team has existed for about one year. During that time, we have developed several features that we think can help increase retention. Though we are still gathering data to detect scientifically whether the features increase retention, we think that some of the features are ready to be

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We have published initial reports on each of the team's first two projects. These reports give the basic numbers from each project, and there are many more questions we will continue to answer in future reports. We're excited about these initial findings. They have already helped us define and

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IMO your study falls more in the "physics paradigm". You have two populations (invited / not invited) and for each of them you want to measure ORES score (real number?), retention (binary) and posting to Teahouse (binary). The "invited" population being 300*30 = 9k editors, the "non-invited" is I

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Former EFF intern Marta Belcher will discuss crowdsourcing her Stanford Law School graduation speech using a wiki. The "WikiSpeech" was the subject of prominent national media attention in 2015, and more than half of her classmates contributed to writing and editing the commencement address via a

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workflow (V1.0) will be deployed in the next weeks on our 4 priority wikis. This version will suggest articles to edit based on maintenance templates. In this first version, we expect many newcomers to initiate the workflow, but not many to select articles to edit or complete edits. We expect

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We have started to deploy features to our team's fourth target wiki: Arabic Knowledge. That wiki is the biggest one we target, it has a high percentage of mobile users, and also is our first right-to-left language. This will help us make sure that our features are valuable for as many types of

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We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. We will have some announcements and lightning

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has created a tool quite similar to record metrics for Women in Red. I feel like our tools compliment each other. Earwig's excels in being designed for Women in Red, and does extra category munging. On the other hand it's English only, and so can't give perspective on how Women's biographies are

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back in September 2018, and the team how has bandwidth to pursue it. The idea is that newcomers who leave the wiki don't get encouraged to return to the wiki and edit. We can engage them through emails that send them the specific information they need to be successful – such as contact from a

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The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically

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Like the other Growth team features, this will be deployed in a controlled experiment, in which half of newcomers will have access to their homepage and half will not. Users with the feature will be able to access it by clicking their username at the top of their browser, and it will only be

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Hi Max, pardon me for butting in here! Skimmed through the discussion on the Teahouse talk page and here, and had a question I wanted to ask. You mention above that you want the AI version of HostBot to run in real time. Does that mean that it'll post invitations much faster than what HostBot

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The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have

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Editing a Knowledge page requires too much context and patience. It means many trial and error for newcomers to contribute, meaning a steeper learning curve and potential discouraging reverts. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller,

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We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis

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What is a WikiSalon? A monthly safe and inclusive meatspace event conducted in organized chaos and we all clean up the mess afterwards. Livestream links for the presentation are available during presentation months, and will be forthcoming for those of you that cannot attend. December is a

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The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand

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The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of the

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The original objective of this project was to give newcomers the materials they need to achieve their goals, and so now we are currently planning how we will use the information collected in the welcome survey to personalize the newcomer's experience. We hope community members will read

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In the past, certain kinds of editing tasks have been structured. For instance, adding categories through HotCat. Now, we are thinking about how to structure the editing of articles. The goal is to allow newcomers can make large content additions, especially from their mobile devices.

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current author of HostBot, encouraged me to do this, because while it will have the disentanglement problem, they thought it would be better to move to another solution if it proves positive. To be complete there is also nothing stopping the current HostBot running more quickly than its

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is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed them in October. After six weeks of these variants being deployed, we can see that they have led to increased interactions with newcomer tasks. Next, we will determine which variant is best and use that for all newcomers.

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on wikipedia on friday 29th of january 2021 at the BNF (French National Library) and I was wondering if I could access your prototype merging WHGI and Denelezeh, as I was planning to use Denelezeh but it is not operational any more. We really need that tool badly again ! Kinf regards

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Regarding your point about m2: I do believe that P(posts to TH|has not been invited) is not or weakly correlated to ORES score, but P(posts to TH|has been invited) certainly is correlated to ORES. But that is a mere belief and the point of running experiments is to get actual data.

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for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.

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The most important piece developed for the homepage over the last month is the "start module", which gives newcomers clear actions to take when they are new: add/confirm their email, go through a tutorial, start their user page. We learned about the need for this module from

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thank you very much for the bug report. I'll check into it now. The crux of it usually is that I rely on Markus Krötzsch's Wikidata Toolkit, which is still in active development, and Wikidata itself still has breaking changes once and a while. Also I wanted to say I saw how

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currently does, or will it run on a schedule (i.e. a cron job)? I'm concerned that "time to invite" could be a confounding factor in the experiment, although I'm also in favor of getting the invites out faster. You might be able to control for that by comparing users who

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P.S. Any help spreading the word through social media or other avenues is most welcome! We plan to announce this on various sites and invite various groups; if you would like to join in, check our meta planning page, and please note any announcements you are sending out:

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Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that

9250:― We have created an "AND" filter to the list of topics at Special:Homepage. This way, newcomers can decide to select very specific topics ("Transportation" AND "Asia") or to have a broader selection ("Transportation" OR "Asia"). At the moment this feature is tested at 6373:: the team is preparing to deploy Growth features to Ukrainian and Hungarian Wikipedias. Wikis that already have the features are Czech, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Basque Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to 11737:” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits: 1085:

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Knowledge through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.

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Because we see positive usage of the homepage, we will deploy several small features in the next two weeks that help more newcomers discover their homepage (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers discover their homepage from their empty Contributions

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We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Knowledge already agreed and will be the next one to join the experiment. We will contact several other wikis in the coming weeks to offer them to participate.

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so that we could gather information about what newcomers are trying to accomplish. The next step is to use that information to create experiences that help the newcomers accomplish their goal – actually personalizing their first day. We asked for community thoughts

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PS: Mark your calendars ahead now for the 3rd Wednesday in November, the 30th (the week after Thanksgiving), at 6 p.m. when our WikiSalon will host a super awesome top secret mystery guest mingling in our midst. We will announce specifics at the upcoming WikiSalon.

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is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their

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Before and after the brief presentation we allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks.

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If you cannot join us in person tonight, we are streaming (and later archiving) the presentation by former EFF intern Marta Belcher. We expect her to be live starting between 6:30 or 6:45 p.m. PDT and talking and taking questions for about 30 minutes thereafter.

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We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved.

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The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

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We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test at

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at SFMOMA in San Francisco on Thursday March 8, 5-9 pm. It'll be at 151 Third Street, 2nd floor, free to the public. Everyone is welcome to participate in an evening of communal updating of Knowledge entries on subjects related to gender, art, and feminism.

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Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

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We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Kid/family friendly. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months' focus is

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Hi Max. I look at your WHGI Gender by language page every Monday to review progress over the previous week but there once again seems to be a bug as it hasn't updated this time. I don't know if it's your routines or Wikidata. Perhaps you could check things

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to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be

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We are proud to announce that all Wikipedias now have the Growth features! Thank you to all the community members who helped the team build the features and bring them to their wikis. The only exception is Chinese Knowledge (zh), for technical reasons.

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for Women in Red. I have tentatively added your name as you have provided assistance by creating and maintaining the Gender by language statistics. Please let me know whether you agree to be listed. You are of course welcome to make any additions or

5306:: the team had a week of planning meetings, in which we talked about some longer-term ideas for Growth work. Some of the top ideas are: to extend the newcomer homepage to help user's build their identity through a user profile, and to revisit the " 5946:. We have looked closely at data and anecdotes from the usage of the help panel, and we plan to pursue specific improvements to increase its effectiveness (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers find responses to their questions). 3361:

We are considering new features to build, that could retain new editors in mid-size Wikipedias. We will be testing new ideas in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, and then we'll talk to more communities (yours!) about adopting the ideas that work well.

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The first Positive Reinforcement idea is a redesign of the impact module: incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information. This idea received the widest support, and we plan to start our work based on the design illustrated on the

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Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features

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At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

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In addition to giving the ability to ask a question, the help panel will also contain a set of links to existing help content. Our ambassadors on Czech and Korean Wikipedias are determining the right initial set of most helpful links in this

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and his Project X team in order to work towards more comprehensive coverage. In any case, I hope you will be able to find time to look into the existing problem as it would be great to have results for the rest of August. Good luck with your

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Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with

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help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us on

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We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.

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We have started to contact more wikis to deploy the features, including Wikipedias of all sizes. Bengali Knowledge recently began using Growth features, and Danish, Thai, Indonesian, and Romanian Wikipedias will be coming soon. Please

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Hey Maximilianklein, what's the deal here? Did not have you pegged as a a Schwimmer sock; I assume you're doing some sort of test with this page? If so, could you disable the unblock request template, please, so it stops showing up in

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Hi! I saw you have been Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC, so I want to ask you a little question about VIAF: in the past months I've often (~ 100 times) found duplicates on VIAF and added them on Wikidata as multiple identifiers (e.g.

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We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is

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We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.

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features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these

6073:, thanks for pointing this out to me! Yes, it's an error, somehow the test-mode the bot got turned on so instead of contacting the users, it does the test and creates the page in the sandbox. It's easily fixed. I will respond at 60: 6143:. These features were successful, and more than doubled the number of newcomers who find their homepage. In Czech Knowledge, 72% of newcomers visit their homepage and in Korean Knowledge, 49% of newcomers visit their homepage. 10566: 10216: 9436: 9276:― We added a confirmation dialog when a user exits out of suggestion mode prior to making changes. We also improved post-edit dialog experience and allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog. 8573:" is the team's first structured task. It uses machine-learning to suggest wikilinks as easy edits for newcomers. It was deployed in May 2021 on four Wikipedias and then in July on eight more Wikipedias after we evaluated the 7754: 6456:

This is a disappointing result, and our team has discussed potential reasons for the result and ideas for the future. Although we have many ideas for how to improve the help panel, we have decided to keep our attention on the

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about the performance of the newcomer homepage. In summary, we are happy with the homepage's performance so far. We see about half of visitors clicking on something, and the majority of them returning to the homepage multiple

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and many others) ... I'd want to ask you: is VIAF taking into account these multiple identifiers, in order to check and merge duplicates? Or is there a more efficient way to notify VIAF these duplicates? Thank you very much,

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Growth team features are now fully deployed in Arabic Knowledge and Basque Knowledge (along with Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias). If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to

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asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February.

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The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees.

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As listed in our goals above, we'll be starting to focus on adding task recommendations to the newcomer homepage. We'll be publishing early thoughts on this feature so that community members can give their thoughts and

2436:. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at 1833: 12009:(in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to 11062:

project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy. They show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.

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PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Knowledge's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP!

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The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being

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Now that Growth features are available at Knowledge, the Growth team considers to extend them to other projects. Some Wikisource users have expressed some interest in getting Growth features. There is currently a

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Though we have not yet developed a feature that clearly increases growth in our target wikis, we believe that the features we have been developing have high potential to increase growth if we continue to work on

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We will be deploying the "Understanding first day" and "Personalized first day" projects on Czech and Korean Wikipedias in the coming weeks. See the new project pages below for full details on the projects, and

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Hi Max. I really think it is a great pity that your Gender by Language analysis has not being updated since 7 August, apparently as a result of modifications to the Wiidata Toolkit which you say is maintained by

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directory to the html directory I assume we could then control the lighttpd.conf file using source control. Thoughts?? Or perhaps you could just make the lighttpd.conf file and restart the server for us.

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Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology

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You are welcome to show this project to others in your community. You can help by translating the materials to your language so that more voices can join in. We will be having this conversation until June 18.

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The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".

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for successful interactions, based on community experiences and some external documentation. The page has also been reviewed by some experienced community members who suggested some changes. That page is now

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And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.

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Research shows that users are more likely to work on articles that are related to their interests. We are currently prototyping methods to ask newcomers their interests and then find articles that match.

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This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit

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deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 280 of the smallest of those Wikipedias have the features.

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to allow people to help themselves. We're going to be adding a search bar to the help panel next, which will allow users to type a search that only looks for pages in the Help and Knowledge namespaces.

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and do this, because the composer.json file got out of sync with the git and now git update won't run via the web interface. My developer account got blocked because I forgot to set an email address.

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has a new question for people who created their account: language skills. The goal is to find out how many newcomers know multiple languages, so that we can learn whether it is a good idea to integrate

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By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.

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We're excited about this project because the majority of newcomers visit their newcomer homepage, and this will be the first element of the homepage that clearly asks the newcomer to start editing.

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Thank you, however, nothing concerning women scientists. It is most unfortunate the team did not keep the previuos toll functionning before setting up the new one :/. We were really using it....

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The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "

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of two homepage configurations. We learned that more newcomers will attempt suggested edits if the module is made more prominent. We are implementing those learnings in our next test. See the

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thanks for signing me up, I want to be signed up. I actually recently started a new job in which I work closely with Knowledge data so it might be easier for me to contribute more when needed.

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for the same is underway. Please cast your vote in the name you find most suitable. We would be glad to receive further suggestions from you. It is also acceptable to mention your votes in the

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was a feature developed in 2013, which directed newcomers to articles that needed editing. We recently removed this feature from all wikis, because it has been replaced by the Growth features.

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to raise the online visibility of Black women artists and challenge the gaps in art history that erase or minimize Black women’s contributions as artists, activists and social change-makers.

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More communities have implemented mentorship. A Wikimedia Foundation data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship. We will look at the impact on Spanish and English Knowledge.

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We want to hear about what is working and what is not working for new contributors in your wiki. We also want to hear any reactions, questions, or opinions on our work. Please post on the

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Since you know about such things, I hope, and Smith is busy with life (I have github but not tool server access.). I assume we use "lighttpd" and not "lighttpd-plain" as our webservice.

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Therefore, the team will continue to work on the features we have started, and we will develop related features that improve the overall newcomer experience. These features may include:

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before making any more edits with it, or it will likely end up being blocked. You should also make it clear on the account's userpage that it belongs to you (i.e. with a template such as

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to potential contributors, with can include (but is not limited to) scholars and health professionals. In any mention of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, there may be a reference to this

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Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.

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at SOMArts in San Francisco on Saturday July 22, 1-4 pm. It'll be at 934 Brannan Street (between 8th & 9th). Everyone is welcome to join this editing event, held in conjunction with

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In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

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was first deployed to newcomers in January 2019, and we have now finished analyzing data to determine its impact. A brief summary is below, and more in-depth information can be found

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We need more helpers and organizers, so if you see a need, please jump in, or talk to us about it! You can add your username to the meta page where appropriate, or create a new role!

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After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Knowledge, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Knowledge is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.

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We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available.

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feature. Those good results have continued: about 900 newcomers made over 5,000 suggested edits so far. We've learned that newcomers are interested in receiving suggested edits.

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Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Knowledge Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016

8588:. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. These prototypes have already been tested by newcomers, in English and Spanish. 3833: 1475: 371: 7605: 6600: 2329: 8373: 8178: 7684: 7423: 7188: 6998: 6742: 6358: 6107: 6024: 5851: 5725: 5525: 5334: 5176: 5122: 4924: 4797: 4199: 11421: 10477:

In this test, we use post-edit dialogs (pop-ups shown after publishing an edit) and notifications to encourage new editors to try new types of newcomer-friendly suggested edits.

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A test is undergoing at English Knowledge: 25% of newcomers receive the Growth features. The results from this test will be part of a discussion of how to proceed on that wiki.

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Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.

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The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors.

9494:. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the 7766: 7719:. After six months, we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias. We analyzed the overall impact of the Growth features, including newcomer tasks. 7311: 6881: 4356: 1937:

Bay Area WikiSalon usually meets the last Wednesday evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch and learn about new projects and ideas

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The team recently published our analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We are happy to announce that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks,

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Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (

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Since we launched "Guidance", the data we collected show good results (see image). Now, we see more users completing suggested edits than before Guidance was deployed.

7208: 6919: 6525: 6427: 6282: 5886: 9495: 7281:(adjacent image) of the homepage. The goal is to increase the number of newcomers who start the newcomer tasks workflow. This is the team's main project at the moment. 4483: 4465: 3898: 3814:: direct newcomers to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December. 3795:: learn about the actions new editors take right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December. 3751: 2704: 2190: 1828: 1761:

Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Knowledge Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy ]

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biased source icon has been removed. This category was very broad, and repetitive to the new advocacy and perennial sources categorizations that are more informative.

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drop from the category - or, if that's going to spoil your test, just put a big notice at the top of the page so that other admins don't make the same mistake I did!

4687: 3650: 2916: 9873: 8258:, we ran a test of two variants of the newcomer homepage, meant to find a version that increases users completing suggested edits. We have completed the experiment, 6260: 5790: 5247: 5225: 3656: 3082: 3076: 191:, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Knowledge article on 9174: 8945: 8485: 5211: 4713: 3331: 11040: 10756: 10558: 10552: 9499: 3615: 2891: 2806: 2611: 10953: 10703: 7501: 6948:: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons. 6939: 5984:

of the newcomer homepage was deployed to Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Now, newcomers can access their homepage from both desktop and mobile devices.

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We are looking for translators for this newsletter. If you are interested and have the needed English language proficiency to assist, then please add your name

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We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. Please see

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The Growth team will begin to work with the Arabic Knowledge community as a new target wiki. This is in addition to Korean, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

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project, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:

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We are taking July off! Please gather your thoughts for changes that you would like to see in the next 10 months and present them at our July 26 WikiSalon.

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In the Mentor module, we now provide more information about the public nature of the mentors/newcomer relationship and the fact that talk pages are public.

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in the Mission near 16th Street BART (temporary change of venue). The good news is this means that you can bring spontaneous guests if you forget to RSVP!

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If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to

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to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.

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We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (

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The Growth team has been working since September 2018, and we're now planning for the work we'll be doing for the next fiscal year, which begins in July.

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We hope that this project will help newcomers build their skills before attempting more difficult edits, such as creating new articles or adding images.

5307: 5275:: the initial version contains some of the simpler modules. Potential upcoming modules include task recommendations and a feed of activity on the wiki. 4660: 4650: 4640: 4629: 3003: 1082:. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Knowledge and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. 287: 10575:. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias (French Knowledge, Italian Knowledge, Japanese Knowledge, Dutch Knowledge, Swedish Knowledge). 9878:

For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.

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Mark your calendars now for Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m.! The venue will be the Noisebridge hackerspace/makerspace on Mission Street in San Francisco.

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feature will be deployed to more wikis: Greek Knowledge, Indonesian Knowledge, Polish Knowledge, Chinese Knowledge. These communities will be able to

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The most common reason for creating an account in Korean Knowledge is to read articles—not for editing—with 29% of Korean users giving that responses.

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Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.

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After about a month of usage, we see a few interesting trends. We think that the usage is going well so far, as we continue to work on the feature

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We continue to engage with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth features to Persian, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias. Learn more about

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Newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome to participate alongside SPIE conference attendees. Admission is free. Training will be provided.

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Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed.

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Now, we are thinking about how to supply them a feed of easy edits that will help more of them be successful quickly. We have a new idea called "

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Based on your blog, I figure you have an interest in journal citations on Knowledge. Here are some things that might interest you on that topic.

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You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

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You are receiving this message as a user of Cite Unseen. If you no longer wish to receive very occasional updates, you may remove yourself from

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Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.

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is available at our pilot wikis: Arabic, Czech, and Bengali Wikipedias. It will soon be available at a few more volunteering wikis, as a test.

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Because we are seeing good reactions to the homepage from the first users, we are prioritizing work that helps more users find their homepage:

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to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are taking it on the road to Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace!

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When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed.

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to provide guidance about how to complete the editing task. We expect this to increase how many newcomers actually complete productive edits.

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you can see it doesn't work properly. Creating drafts in own namespaces with questions for inactive users doesn't seem to be a proper usage.

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and several others have shown interest in extending the remit to other languages. It would therefore be useful is you could join forces with

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Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits.

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Hi, I don't know how often do you use your CS account, but this seems to be used. I have blocked your bot: CivilServantBot on pl.wikipedia.

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We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon. At the moment, the new

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deployed on more wikis that want to experiment with them. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to

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Apart from that, just wanted to say that I'm excited about this experiment, looking forward to learning more about what you find! Cheers,

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Now that data is coming in for the welcome survey, we are planning how to use that data to personalize the newcomer's first day. See our

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After consulting with many communities on the best ways to increase retention, we will focus during the next 3 months on these projects:

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implementation (I believe its stateless so relies on being run everyday), so we could have the disentanglement experiment later. Cheers,

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We normally allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.

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This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit

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While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved.

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We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Knowledge about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well.

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available on desktop -- not mobile. Experienced users who want to see their homepage will be able to turn it on in their preferences.

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accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

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is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated

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Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.

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Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with

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The number of suggested edits completed by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020, with a line for the total.

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We'll be using the help panel as part of the newcomer tasks project: using it to guide newcomers while they complete suggested edits.

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Once a newcomer has selected a recommended article, they will need guidance on how to complete the edit. We have decided to use the

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of your unblock request, once you have filed a BRFA, and have approval to test - please ping me, and I will unblock the bot account.

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If possible, please RSVP as it helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. For further details and to RSVP, please see:

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the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks,

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is a project that aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps. We hope newcomers can accomplish these tasks easily.

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In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new

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meets one evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch or learn about new projects and ideas

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Sorry I was on Summer holiday. I am working on a fix as I write. I estimate a solution soon, and I will ping you when it's solved.

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In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the

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Large numbers of respondents said they are interested in being contacted to get help with editing: 36% in Czech and 53% in Korean.

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Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (

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The Growth features were recently used in a test amongst Latin American donors to give donors the opportunity to learn to edit.

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In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:

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Hello, Maximilianklein. Have you got approval to run Recitation-bot as a bot? If not, you need to stop using the account and get

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Come find out what "Talk Page Theatre" is all about! The last Wednesday evening of every other month, wiki enthusiasts gather at

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The future of this journal as a separate Wikimedia project is under discussion and the name can be changed suitably. Currently a

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We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at

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We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.

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A new quarter of the year has started, and the team has set our goals for the next three months. The most important goals are:

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A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Public Library, that was coordinated by Wiki editor

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There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.

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to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Knowledge, Polish Knowledge, Chinese Knowledge, Indonesian Knowledge, Romanian Knowledge.

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can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them.

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Sketch of an idea for a structured workflow for adding links to an article. The goal is to help newcomers edit at high volume.

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When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature

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How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members?

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We are excited to remind you of the ninth in the Bay Area WikiSalon series that is coming up this Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.

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Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything!

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The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing.

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If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further,

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shown an increase in activation (whether a user makes their first edit) or retention (whether a user returns to edit again).

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Account completion module: gives some very simple recommendations of how to get started (add an email, start your user page)

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Most users respond to the survey, giving it high response rates of 67% and 62% in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, respectively.

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Making it easy for newcomers to see editing activity around the topic areas in which they indicated that they're interested.

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of new users open an editor on their first day – but about a quarter of them do not go on to save an edit during that time.

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The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.

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to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback.

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so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.

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with any ideas, questions, or concerns. You can see in the accompanying mockup how we are thinking about the homepage.

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Thanks for keeping your ears and eyes open. The nowiki solution works for my purposes. Sorry to have gotten in your way.

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The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future

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email list. Please note that the voting closes on 16th August, 2016, unless protracted by consensus, due to any reason.

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Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.

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around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

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Screenshot from Vietnamese Knowledge showing the help panel open on the Community Portal, including the "search" bar.

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Half of newcomers at English Knowledge get a mentor assigned to them. To ensure every newcomer receives mentorship,

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feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (

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Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

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We also find that the quality of their edits, as measured by revert rate, is comparable to that of a control group.

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Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new

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Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new

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Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new

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Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

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As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.

7059: 6904: 5399:. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English. 1971: 1844: 468:. If you want to receive these emails too, state your interest at the talk page, or contact the Editor-in-chief at 199:. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! ( 11978: 11920: 11545: 11374: 10846: 10539: 8617: 8467: 8437: 8282: 8262:

that one of the variants leads to more edits on desktop while the other leads to more edits on mobile. Therefore,

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Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, an open access peer reviewed journal with no charges, invites you to participate.

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for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.

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We've conducted our quarterly audit on Growth's four pilot wikis to see the activity of mentors. It appears that

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Wikimedia projects. We will be starting with Wikipedias, but we hope these changes will benefit every community.

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throughout the year. Enjoy the end of year festivities and prepare to put more women on the world map in 2017. --

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Thanks for you efforts. The latest stats show good progress for many of the major languages, including English.--

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in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (

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Large numbers of users view their own User or User Talk page on their first day: 34% in Czech and 39% in Korean.

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Our apologies, but we are rescheduling to Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. due to a WMF host scheduling conflict.

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was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis.

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if you have questions about the deployment process, or if your community likes to get the features in advance.

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showing the help panel when a newcomer is in "read" mode on a page in the Help, Knowledge, or User namespaces.

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No apology is necessary, I simply don't want to see you end up in hot water over the username and bot edits. —

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We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.

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About half of users visit the homepage more than once, with about a fifth of users visiting on multiple days.

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After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:

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to help newcomers get started with editing right away. This is the module that we will be working on next.

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We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis.

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to claim a newcomer as their mentee. The feature now allows mentors to claim multiple newcomers at once.

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Late breaking invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, July 27 (Wednesday) - change of venue - tonight

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wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a

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people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out

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from community members on the idea. We had a good discussion in six languages with 35 community members (

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We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:

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Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily.

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who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to

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Several members of the Growth team attended Wikimedia Hackathon. To see what we worked on and learned,

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for the list for the list of recommended topics. If you do not plan to submit a proposal, you can also

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To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.

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This filter only filters mentees assigned to the mentor. This filter is not visible for people who are

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talks from the floor, and a breakout session. This is our one year anniversary, so there will be cake!

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We are meeting at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace (temporary venue change) near 16th ST BART in SF.

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in Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.

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In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.

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that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.

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If you have any feedback, requested features, or domains to add/remove, don't hesitate to bring it up

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Surfacing the help content most relevant to the reason for which the newcomers created their accounts.

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We are going to direct newcomers to help desks. But what's the best way to reply to a newcomer there?

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We are working to resolve a bug related to mentors properly returning after being marked as "Away". (

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as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.

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with the Czech community, so that experienced users can build skills that help them retain newcomers.

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Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider

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The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates

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change Growth-owned extensions and features, so that they work as expected with temporary accounts.

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Growth team Ambassadors helped with an initial evaluation of these section-level image suggestions.

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Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using

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gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback.

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If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team,

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Prototype of how the help panel will "peek" from the bottom of the page to offer guidance on mobile.

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Large numbers of users view help or policy pages on their first day: 42% in Czech and 28% in Korean.

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with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?

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with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?

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on the wikis. There is no evidence that thanks increased after the feature was added on more pages.

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We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in

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reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled.

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contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.

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feature, which would help mentors track the progress of their mentees. We encourage all mentors to

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Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits.

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wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities.

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wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities.

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wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities.

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journal pages into other languages. Wikiversity currently exists in the following other languages

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We are looking for translators who can help by translating the interface. Translating is done on

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was deployed on Vietnamese Knowledge, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:

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PS: We need volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add your name to the

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Communities now have the ability to configure how Growth features behave on their own wikis. At

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on a small percentage of new accounts. At the moment, registered users can test the features by

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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We recently deployed the Growth features to Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish Wikipedias.

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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We will start discussions with communities to help us define these ideas before we work on them.

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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The Growth Team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in

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I believe I have fixed WHGI for the moment. Please ping me again if it goes down in the future.

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of potential upcoming articles. If you do not have expertise in these subjects, you can help in

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Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features.

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Indicator that encourages users to look at their Notifications for responses to their questions

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Users are interacting with all the different modules on the page -- there is no clear favorite.

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More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available

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It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor.

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in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read:

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volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at

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The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)

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of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please

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to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are meeting at

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We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion.

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After adding Thanks to Recent Changes, Watchlist and Special:Contributions, we investigated

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on-wiki and through email, so that they quickly find out if other users are contacting them.

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The help panel was previously available whenever a newcomer was in "edit" mode. We are now

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Please feel free to add to, refine, reorganize or edit the above linked page: it is a wiki!

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Please copy and share this on other talk pages. We would like to invite you to this month's

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Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.

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as a newcomer task. To make room for this question, we removed one that is not being used.

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We will start a community consultation in which we share initial ideas and designs soon.

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We added a search capability, in which users can search the Help and Knowledge namespaces.

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if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.

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As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000

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more than 14,000 questions have been sent to volunteer mentors by more than 11,000 users.

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has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.

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will help to create better help contents to newcomers, that would be used on Help panel.

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and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

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Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see

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eriodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the

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eriodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the

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to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.

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We are gathering internal Wikimedia Foundation teams' needs, so as community feedback.

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project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.

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to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was part of the

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When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the

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We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).

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We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).

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We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).

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to achieve a 100% coverage rate. We also encourage experienced users from other wikis

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Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

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Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by

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Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by

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so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through

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What is the way to built a good help page? What blocks you when writing an help page?

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was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on January 10. Over the past four weeks:

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Ordinarily, the last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki and open-source enthusiasts gather at

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We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.

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Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E/viewform

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Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or

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data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains

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ey, folks. Reminder: Wednesday evening at 6 is the Bay Area WikiSalon series.

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Glad to hear about your new job, Max. Keep us posted on any relevant developments.--

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A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

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We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023.

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the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+22%)

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We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.

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to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and

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to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and

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to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and

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to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and

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The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.

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As usual, we are still welcoming your feedback and questions about our features.

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About 5% of Czech users ask questions, and about 1% of Korean users ask questions.

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You are cordially invited to Stanford University to celebrate Knowledge's birthday

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so you must decide beforehand what correlations to use ("epidemiology paradigm").

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REMINDER/invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.

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more than 2,000 questions have been asked on help desks by more than 1,500 users.

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These are the next two versions of the feature, which are already being planned:

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Video of Growth team presentation about our work and learnings from the past year

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User tests showed that the most important thing to add to the homepage are clear

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Mentorship module: all newcomers assigned a mentor to whom they can ask questions

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German and English Knowledge will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.

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Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available

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more than 5,000 newcomers have made more than 40,000 edits using Newcomer tasks.

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Button to help newcomers find their homepage from their empty Contributions page

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While all constructive contributions to Knowledge are appreciated, pages may be

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as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks!

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a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out

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As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (

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the user experience of a logged-out user, that switches to a temporary account,

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We will have no meaty agenda this month, but we will allow a brief period for:

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was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published

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We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge.

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You are cordially invited to the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon on 02.02.2020

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Users have been asking questions to their mentors -- but not on the help desk.

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The main feature that the team has been working on over the last month is the

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mentor, the impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over

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As of November 2020, across all wikis where the features have been deployed:

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How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish?

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Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, a stool or counter and do your own thing.

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report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here

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In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now

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Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:

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Secondly, it appears that our own lighttpd.conf files was having no effect.

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is our current major project. We hope that community members can read over

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Any last minute questions or suggestions? Please ping or email Ben or me. |

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We have been attending several community events, that we documented in our

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Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather for the

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Bay Area WikiSalon series: Everybody is invited this Wednesday evening at 6

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Hi Max. Just thought I should let you know there was no update this week.--

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Spread the word to anyone who could be interested or could benefit from it.

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ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)

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Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing

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Impact module: shows the number of pageviews for pages the newcomer edited

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Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

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Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

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in the South of Market Street business district and everybody is invited!

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You are invited to a birthday bash to Celebrate Knowledge's 16th Birthday!

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The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)

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We have worked on two new features, to inform them about the mentorship:

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contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work.

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May was a busy month, and we apologize for a slightly late newsletter.

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Can you login to the citation bot command line ssh interface (possibly:

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Join us for the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon this Sunday, 02.02.2020!

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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We are currently engineering on this feature, and we recently published

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Join us in celebrating Knowledge's 18th birthday at Stanford University!

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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what do you and your community think of those ideas before September 9.

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Please join us in the Mission at Noisebridge (one time change of venue)!

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Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.

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are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.

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are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Knowledge:Teahouse#Experiment test using AI to invite users to Teahouse

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series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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Mockup of the Impact module, redesigned to add Positive reinforcement.

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A newcomer homepage on Czech Knowledge (displayed in English language)

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Wikimania 2019 is coming up in August. The conference will include a

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at

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Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for

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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at

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The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “

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We are also reviewing similar tools that are part of other products.

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If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to,

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cd public_html rm composer.json /usr/bin/git checkout composer.json

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the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)

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About half of users who visit the homepage click on a link or button.

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What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers?

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Call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019

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Assemble a report on what our team has learned so far about newcomers

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Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.

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This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's

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aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28

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and others of the Editorial Board, Wikiversity Journal of Medicine.

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This analysis finds that the Growth features lead to increases in:

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subscribe/unsubscribe to San Francisco event talk page notices here

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subscribe/unsubscribe to San Francisco event talk page notices here

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meta:Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco#Announcements and promotion

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A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)

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You can help with translations. The interface translation is done

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provides the perennial sources list in a clean, structured format.

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of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.

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to keep everything in one place. Thanks again for your sharp eye.

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If you have questions about Wikimania in general, please ask them

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Publish in-depth quantitative reporting on the data from this year

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Thanks for your explanations, Max. You are absolutely right about

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Suggested edits are available on all Knowledge language editions.

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We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!

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didn't have a link to the source code. Is it published anywhere?

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for details. All icons are enabled by default except for the new

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Not a problem at all, no apology needed. Good luck with the bot!

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About 400 newcomers in each wiki have seen the help panel button.

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series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, August 31

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At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the

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Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new

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Invitation to Local Wikimania Event in San Francisco this Friday

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You can now toggle which icons you do or don't want to see. See

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https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/blob/master/.lighttpd.conf

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last month. The next priorities for the newcomer homepage are:

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We are planning to test a second version of the survey, called "

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to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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Maybe a focus on some topical election article editing with Ben?

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If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review

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If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review

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that could welcome you sharing your knowledge and perspective.

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Wikis receiving the newcomer homepage can expect these things:

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If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review

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If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review

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is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All

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Screenshot of newcomer homepage in Test Knowledge, in English.

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Help module: help links and ability to ask help desk questions

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The survey does not cause newcomers to be less likely to edit.

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Two Growth team projects have been deployed (detailed updates

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You can participate in any one or more of the following ways:

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An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at

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the longer term effect on newcomer productivity and retention

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All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program

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Screenshot of the positive reinforcement module improvements.

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We've made it easier to hide the help panel when not needed.

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invited by AI-HostBot but later got invited by the other bot?

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is the best way to see the design and wording in the feature.

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Everybody is invited to the May 31 Bay Area WikiSalon series!

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Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at

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to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use

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manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own

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A screenshot of "add a link" feature in development in beta.

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Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.

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Please see below for the message from the organizers of the

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About 50% of those who open it up click on one of the links.

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The Black Woman is God Edit-a-Thon in San Francisco, July 22

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You can search for it on the Commons and YouTube later too.

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structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g.

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The Growth team will host its first community conversation

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The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a

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The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change.

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Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

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We now allow newcomers to opt-in and opt-out of mentorship.

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the strongest variants for each platform to all newcomers.

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future versions of the feature to increase those behaviors.

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The star on this image is the week we deployed "guidance".

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Additional questions will come to the help desk from the "

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to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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Everybody is invited to the November 30 Bay Area WikiSalon

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Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge

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we need additional volunteer mentors at English Knowledge

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Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by

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Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test

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for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.

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We have deployed features that help newcomers find their

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Lack of independent coverage by multiple reliable sources

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Two Growth team projects to be deployed in next two weeks

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for detailed updates on the first project we'll work on.

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Your invitation: Bay Area WikiSalon series at Noisebridge

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and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name.

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and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name.

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and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name.

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Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in

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Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.

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is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All

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Note: the previous invitation had a bum wikilink. Sorry!

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thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

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in San Diego last week and wants to share their takeaway

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thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

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Developers can find some initial proof of concept code

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Growth features are now the default experience on both

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Interface translations are hosted at translatewiki.net.

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to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.

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All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience.

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Communities can configure how the features work, using

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is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the

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is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the

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process can result in deletion without discussion, and

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call for submissions for the Community Growth space at

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More users may create and edit user pages through the "

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Discover how you can involve yourself or your community

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Connecting interested newcomers to experienced editors.

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is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the

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Discover how you can involve yourself or your community

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Discover how you can involve yourself or your community

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8 ideas we consider: tell us what you think about them!

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is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the

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Tonight: Live and archived links for Bay Area WikiSalon

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The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the

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have been shared and discussed with community members.

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Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved.

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Community configuration editing form under development

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by default to reduce clutter, but you can enable them

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begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the

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for who will get the feature, and add any thoughts to

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Reminder: Tonight is Bay Area WikiSalon at Noisebridge

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5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February

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Publishing source code is a recommended best practice

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Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are

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Noisebridge. You can stay late, on your own! YeeHaw!

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to ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.

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We continue the deployment of the structured task "

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We have started to investigate design improvements.

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IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation

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IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation

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were found precious. That's what you are, always. --

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in Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedias

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The survey is now being shown to half of new users (

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for detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.

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for detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.

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events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.

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