The Tea Leaf Issue Four Hi Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf the official newsletter for the Teahouse Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27 2012 We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated and continue to participate What you ve all been waiting for Teahouse Pilot Report is released We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project and if a pilot report wasn t enough the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week Two weeks after participating 33 of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia as opposed to 11 of a similar control group New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles make 7x more global edits and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group Women participate in the Teahouse 28 of Teahouse participants were women up from 9 of editors on Wikipedia in general good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too but still lots to be done here New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve scale and sustain the project Opportunities for future work include Automating or semi automating systems such as invites metrics and archiving Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse Building out the social and peer to peer aspects further including exploring ways to make answering questions easier creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other s efforts Growing volunteer capacity continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone Want to know how you can lend a hand at the Teahouse Become a host Learn more about what makes the Teahouse different than other help spaces on Wikipedia and see how you can help new editors by visiting here 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 really encouraging to new Wikipedians 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