The Tea Leaf Issue Two Hi Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf the official newsletter of the Teahouse Teahouse celebrates one month of being open This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse Hosts community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier exploring mediation processes for troubling guests and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse First month metrics report an average of 30 new editors visiting the Teahouse each week Approximately 30 new editors participate in the Teahouse each week by way of asking questions and making guest profiles An average of six new questions and four new profiles are made each day We d love to hear your ideas about how we can spread the word about the Teahouse to more new editors Teahouse has many regulars Like any great teahouse our Teahouse has a 61 return rate of guests who come back to ask additional questions and to also help answer others questions Return guests cite the speedy response rate of hosts and the friendly easy to understand responses by the hosts and other participants as the main reasons for coming back for another cup o tea Early metrics on retention It s still too early to draw conclusions about the Teahouse s impact on new editor retention but early data shows that 38 of new editors who participate at the Teahouse are still actively editing Wikipedia 2 4 weeks later this is compared with 7 from a control group of uninvited new editors who showed similar first day editing activity Additional metrics can be found on the Teahouse metrics page Nine new hosts welcomed to the Teahouse Nine new hosts have been welcomed to the Teahouse during month one and Welcome to the Teahouse gang folks Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse Drop off some wikilove to these editors today as being welcomed by experienced editors is a really nice way to make new editors feel welcome You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters please remove your username here