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Growth team newsletter 14

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

The star on this image is the week we deployed "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

Design concept for the "add a link" structured task

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

Mockup of Variant D of the homepage on desktop.

• 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. [1]
• 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. [2]

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:
  • The Polish Wikiconference (recording on Google Drive)
  • The Celtic Knot 2020 (video available on Youtube).

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09:33, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email surveys@wikimedia.org.

You can see my explanation here.

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

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• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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Advice on bureaucrats rights at swwiki

Hi MarcoAurelio I try to contact you somewhat randomly. I guess you may be in a position for advice I need. I look for someone to kindly advise me on some technicalities. At swwiki we have agreed on criteria to remove inactive admins and also have voted a number of new admins in. I am bureaucrat and admin at swwiki. When I open the Special:UserRights which is sw:Maalum:HakizaMtumiaji, I can add the new admins but I cannot remove anyone.

According to the explanations at meta:Bureaucrat I should be able to do that. Is that correct? To whom do we talk about such settings? And we have to remove a bureaucrat who bade us farewell - where would I find the stewards to remove him? Kipala (talk) 07:29, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello Kipala. Sorry for not replying earlier but I am busy. Bureaucrats in Wikimedia wikis by default do not have the power to remove sysop or bureaucrat status, they can only grant it. Removing those permissions can only be done by stewards by request at Steward requests/Permissions. It is true, however, that in some few wikis listed at Bureaucrat, local bureaucrats are able to remove sysop permissions; but those are exceptions to the configuration that are usually not granted due to governance and security concerns. I hope that this answers your question. Best regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)