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== The Signpost: 30 January 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?- Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021- Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph- Obituary: Twofingered Typist- Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial- Essay: The prime directive- Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"- Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
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**The Signpost: 27 February 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine- Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons- Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea- Featured content: Featured Content returns- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate- By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?- Gallery: The vintage exhibit- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
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**Growth Newsletter #20**
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Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

**Suggested edits**
As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.
Add a link 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 to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits.  After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.
Add an image 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 data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.
"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.

**Positive reinforcement**
Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with.  We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:- Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.- Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.- Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.
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 the talk page to help guide the project!

**News for mentors**
 The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.- 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 reassign their mentees to other mentors.- We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.- Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.- We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up.
Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages.  If your wiki has one, please link it to Wikidata!

**Scaling**
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 (except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you, we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki. 

**How to help**
Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it. 
Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by  translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
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2022년 3월 17일 (목) 02:12 (KST)

**The Signpost: 27 March 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- From the team: We stand in solidarity with Ukraine- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff- Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine- Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."- From the archives: Burn, baby burn- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja- On the bright side: The bright side of news
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**The Signpost: 24 April 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- News and notes: Double trouble- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March- In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia- Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners- Interview: On a war and a map- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion- Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?- Essay: The problem with elegant variation- Humour: Really huge message boxes- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
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**The Signpost: 29 May 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- From the team: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the team- News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News and notes- Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Community view- Opinion: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion- In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In the media- Special report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Special report- In focus: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In focus- Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Discussion report- WikiProject report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/WikiProject report- Technology report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Technology report- Featured content: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Featured content- Interview: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Interview- Serendipity: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Serendipity- Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Recent research- Tips and tricks: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Tips and tricks- Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Traffic report- News from Diff: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from Diff- News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from the WMF- Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing- Gallery: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Gallery- From the archives: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the archives- Essay: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Essay- Humour: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Humour
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**The Signpost: 26 June 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?- Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled- Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose- Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals- Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter- Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel
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**Growth team newsletter #21**
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Welcome to the twenty-first newsletter from the Growth team!

**New project: Positive reinforcement**
alt=Design mockup of the Positive reinforcement module for mobile users. The new module is first a summary of the number of views and can be expanded to show stats, graphs, and other contribution information.- The Growth team started a new project: Positive reinforcement. We want newcomers to understand there is an interest in regularly editing Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.- We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Wikipedia about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well. - We summarized the initial feedback gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback. - 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 side.- Please let us know what you think of this project, in any language.

**For mentors**
We have worked on two new features, to inform them about the mentorship: 
** 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.
** We now allow newcomers to opt-in and opt-out of mentorship.

**Scaling**
 "Add a link" available at more wikis ― Add a link feature has been deployed to more wikis: . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure locally how this feature works. - "Add an image" available at more wikis ― Add an image feature will be deployed to more wikis: . These communities will be able to configure locally how this feature works. 

**Suggested edits**
 Selecting topics ―  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 pilot wikis. - Changes for Add a link ― We have built several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.
** Algorithm improvements  ― The algorithm now avoids recommending links in sections that usually don't have links and for first names. Also, it now limits each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article).
** User experience improvements  ―   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.
** Community configuration  ― We allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig. 
** Future change for Add a link feature  ― We will suggest underlinked articles in priority. - Patrolling suggested edits ― Some users at Arabic Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia told us that "Add a link" and "Add an image" edits can be challenging to patrol. We are now brainstorming improvements to help address this challenge. We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language. 

**Community configuration**
Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.- Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily. - Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. 
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2022년 7월 5일 (화) 22:03 (KST)

**The Signpost: 1 August 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something- News and notes: Information considered harmful- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)- Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections- Community view: Youth culture and notability- Opinion: Criminals among us- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us- Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot- In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories- Essay: How to research an image- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia- Gallery: A backstage pass- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened- Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?
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**The Signpost: 31 August 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me- In focus: Thinking inside the box- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations- Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now- Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth- Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come- Essay: Delete the junk!- Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
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**Growth team newsletter #22**
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Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

**Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available**
As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks.  In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module. - About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.- Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.
We have added some new data to Grafana. 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. 
If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

**Ongoing projects and explorations**
Positive Reinforcement project. The image displays the mockup for mobile we used for user testing.
We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. 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 Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.
We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.
Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

**Experiments analysis**
Add a Link Experiment Analysis  has been published. The most important points are:- Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).- They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).- The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).
Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.- Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.- 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 here.

**News for mentors**
A new system for the mentors list
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.
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.
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. 
Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.
Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org. 
A tip for mentors
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.
And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges?  Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: , .
Other improvements
Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:- 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. - Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. - Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. 

**Recent changes and fixed bugs**
 We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. - Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are , , , , . - 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. - In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. 

**Have a question? A suggestion?**
Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.
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2022년 9월 22일 (목) 02:19 (KST)

**The Signpost: 30 September 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"- In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News- Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship- Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?- Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos- Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs- Featured content: Farm-fresh content- Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
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**The Signpost: 31 October 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper- From the team: A new goose on the roost- News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment- In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove- Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?- Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal- From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
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**The Signpost: 28 November 2022**
right News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"- Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC- Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed- Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality- Book review: Writing the Revolution- Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality- Essay: The Six Million FP Man- Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff- Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"- Featured content: A great month for featured articles- Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler- Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia- Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
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**Growth team newsletter #23**
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Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!

**Highlights**
 Mentorship: We released the new structured mentor list to all wikis. This change makes mentorship easier to setup, manage and use.- Positive reinforcement: An improved impact module is available for testing.
Screenshot of the positive reinforcement module improvements.

**Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test**
The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are. 
Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited. 
This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module  at Beta Wikipedia. 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.

**Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback**
After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.
We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed: - Patroller fatigue:  
** 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. - Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
** Add a Link 
*** 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.
*** The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
*** 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 suggested.
** Add an Image
*** Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
*** Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
*** We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. 
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 "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.

**Recent changes**
 All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. 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 Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. - The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. 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. - Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it. 

**News for mentors**
 All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way. 
** We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
** Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting Special:MentorDashboard.
** Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
** A new special page — Special:ManageMentors — now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
*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. 

**Deployments**
 Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. 

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2022년 11월 30일 (수) 05:58 (KST)