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I'm a bit lost
Hi Ed,
Sorry to just pick you for this, but I'm not sure whether the Wikimedia Forum was the right place to put this and I don't want it to get lost in the shuffle. Any ideas on what the appropriate venue might be? I tried mediawiki, even en.wikipedia, but I don't really seem to get any response.
Sincerely Jcwf (talk) 03:13, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- @Jcwf: Hi! I believe that you'll want to head over to MediaWiki's Support desk. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 03:55, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Your comment on WikiProject United States
Greetings Ed, I noticed your comment at WikiProject United States on ENWP about some of the projects being featured on a blog post. I just wanted to let you know that I was the primary maintainer of that and most of the other US related WikiProjects but since I got banned from ENWP no one is really actively maintaining that project. So you probably won't get much of a reply. Reguyla (talk) 17:16, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
page translated
done
--Mohammed Bachounda (talk) 10:20, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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No Email received
Unfortunately I haven't received your email. Wonder where the issue is. You can also try dimiwikimedia.be --Dimi z (talk) 09:08, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Dimi z: Check your inbox! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
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Publishing of blog.
Dear Ed, Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Women's History month lead by Odia Wikimedians this was April month activity by Odia Wikimedians and is not yet published in the Wikimedia blog. I just saw that the blog page has been updated. Can you please publish it? -- Sailesh Patnaik (Talk2Me|Contribs) 03:51, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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Request for urgent response in connection with WMF blogposts
Hi Ed,
Since our meeting during the recent Wikimania in Italy and exchange of my work for three blogposts, I have been trying to reach you over the email.
As discussed, I am particularly keen on the publication of the works that are already finished - Interview in connection with WMF-NIH Collaboration, Interview of a leading Turkish Wikipedian and also summing up three interviews in connection with WEP at Michigan University, USA, Michigan, where you said some of your relative reside.
Once this is done, I can proceed with more blogposts highlighting the achievements of Asian and other worldwide Wikimedians with your cooperation. --Muzammil (talk) 04:28, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
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Help needed with regard to WMF blogposts
@Ed Erhart (WMF) and The ed17:
Hi Ed,
Thank you for the acknowledgement of my email message(s) of June 7.
Subsequent to this, I have sent two more messages. I haven't received any response so far. I suspect there is some problem with blog team email - blogteam Wikimedia.org as one of the reasons for the delayed or possibly non-receipt of my mail messages.
I request your early reply to help me continue with my efforts aimed at more blogposts highlighting the achievements of Asian and other worldwide Wikimedians with your cooperation.--Muzammil (talk) 19:16, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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Your Blog in the Signpost
I working on republishing your blog post about the two editors who work on Egyptian topics for the July edition of the Signpost. It is long (for the Signpost) and I am working on editing it for brevity. As I do so, feel free to jump right in to replace what I removed or to clarify what I have made more muddy. Thanks for what you do! You can see the draft here, Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) (talk) 12:54, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
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Note for self
[1] Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 17:19, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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You've got mail
Hello Ed, please check your email regarding an OTRS ticket. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 18:19, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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Welcome to the thirteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Join the conversation: structured tasks
We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.
In our previous newsletter, we talked about the productive edits coming from the newcomer tasks 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.
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 "structured tasks". This would aim to break down edits into steps that are easy for newcomers and easy on mobile devices.
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.
Please visit the project page and respond to the discussion questions listed on the talk page. 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.
Expanding to more wikis
We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.
In the last two months, we deployed Growth features to six new wikis: Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian, Armenian, and Basque Wikipedias, and French Wiktionary. Newcomers from these wikis have already contributed over 600 edits through Growth features.
We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Wikipedia 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.
Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see this translatable summary of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please contact us to begin the process!
Other updates
Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.
- In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new ORES models.
- In April, we completed an A/B test 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 full results here.
- We are currently working on guidance for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.
- Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.
As usual, we are still welcoming your feedback and questions about our features. Please contact us on the project talk page!
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Welcome to the fourteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Success with guidance
We deployed the "Guidance" feature on June 15.
This feature uses the help panel to explain what to do after selecting a suggested edit. For instance, if a newcomer selects a copyedit task, they are guided on what sorts of errors to look for. They can see examples of how to rewrite the text. You can try this feature on test.wikipedia.org. First enable the homepage and the help panel in your preferences there.
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.
Structured tasks
Structured tasks is a project that aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps. We hope newcomers can accomplish these tasks easily.
In the previous newsletter, we asked for feedback from community members on the idea. We had a good discussion in six languages with 35 community members (summary here). We have now posted new design mockups. We hope community members can check the mockups out and react to them (in any language). They are posted along with some of the main questions we are thinking about as we continue to refine our plans.
Other technical updates
- We are currently working on Variants C and D (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.
- We've made it easier to hide the help panel when not needed. [2]
- The welcome survey 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 Content Translation as a newcomer task. To make room for this question, we removed one that is not being used. [3]
Community outreach
- We continue to engage with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth features to Persian, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias. Learn more about getting the features.
- If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team, please contact us! We have already participated to two community events online:
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Welcome to the fifteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Variants C and D deployed
Variants C and D 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 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.
Structured tasks: add a link
As we discussed in previous newsletters, the team is working on our first "structured task": the "add a link" task. After community discussion on design ideas, we ran user tests on the mobile designs. We decided on the design concept we want to use moving forward: Concept A. We're now engineering the backend for this feature. Next, we will be running user tests for desktop designs.
Learn more about the findings.
Community news
- We recently deployed the Growth features to Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish Wikipedias. 18 wikis now have Growth features. Learn more about getting the features.
- Have you recently checked if all interface messages are translated for your language?
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Growth team updates #16
Welcome to the sixteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Growth features show impact
Newcomer task experiments results
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, lead to increased editing from newcomers.
In November 2019, the Growth team added the "newcomer tasks" feature to the newcomer homepage. 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.
This analysis finds that the Growth features lead to increases in:
- the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)
- the probability that they are retained as editors
- the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+22%)
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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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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The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.
Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features. Learn more about how to get them.
You can find more details about this experiment on the report page. Please post any feedback or questions on the talk page
General metrics
As of November 2020, across all wikis where the features have been deployed:
- more than 5,000 newcomers have made more than 40,000 edits using Newcomer tasks.
- more than 14,000 questions have been sent to volunteer mentors by more than 11,000 users.
- more than 2,000 questions have been asked on help desks by more than 1,500 users.
Learn more about Growth results here, and please post any feedback or questions on the talk page.
Variants C and D
Variants C and D 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.
News for mentors
Mentors are volunteers ready to help newcomers in their first steps. Newcomers can contact them using the mentorship module on their homepage.
A separate list for workshops hosts
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 can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. Learn more about this feature.
Claiming multiple mentees at once
Mentors can use Special:ClaimMentee
to claim a newcomer as their mentee. The feature now allows mentors to claim multiple newcomers at once.
Community news
The help panel allows people to post a message to the local help desk while editing. Previously, the tool always posted messages to the bottom of help desks. Wikis are now able to configure it to display new messages at the top of the help desk page. T261714
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