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Growth Newsletter #20

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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17:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Rejuvenate WikiProject Skepticism

Hello - my name is Susan Gerbic (Sgerbic) and I'm writing to you because at some point you joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism. This might have been months ago - or even years ago. With the best of intentions the project was created years ago, and sadly like many WikiProjects has started to go dormant. A group of us are attempting to revitalize the Skepticism project, already we have begun to clean up the main page and I've just redone the participant page. No one is in charge of this project, it is member directed, which might have been the reason it almost went dormant. We are attempting to bring back conversations on the talk page and have two subprojects as well, in the hopes that it might spark involvement and a way of getting to know each other better. One was created several years ago but is very well organized and a lot of progress was made, Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Skeptical organisations in Europe. The other I created a couple weeks ago, it is very simple and has a silly name Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Skepticism Stub Sub-Project Project (SSSPP). This sub-project runs from March 1 to June 1, 2022. We are attempting to rewrite skepticism stubs and add them to this list. As you can see we have already made progress.

The reason I'm writing to you now is because we would love to have you come back to the project and become involved, either by working on one of the sub-projects, proposing your own (and managing it), or just hanging out on the talk page getting to know the other editors and maybe donate some of your wisdom to some of the conversations. As I said, no one is in charge, so if you have something in mind you would like to see done, please suggest it on the talk page and hopefully others will agree. Please add the project to your watchlist, update your personal user page showing you are a proud member of WikiProject Skepticism. And DIVE in, this is what the work list looks like [1] frightening at first glance, but we have already started chipping away at it.

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Participants page has gone though a giant change - you may want to update your information. And of course if this project no longer interests you, please remove your name from the participant list, we would hate to see you go, but completely understand.

Thank you for your time, I hope to edit with you in the future.Sgerbic (talk) 07:04, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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week1/Yahahaya

Hello, It's my first time to use wikipedia editing things, I am looking forward to learn new knowledges from my professor and classmates, happy spring break, take care you all!

Yahahaya (talk · contribs) Please remember to sign each of your posts using four tilde characters ~~~~ at the end. Do this as a reply and then ping me here, and then I will take a look at it and reply. --- FULBERT (talk) 20:07, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello, It's my first time to use wikipedia editing things, I am looking forward to learn new knowledges from my professor and classmates, happy spring break, take care you all!Yahahaya (talk) 04:01, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

sorry professor, its this right? Yahahaya (talk) 04:05, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Yahahaya, This is right overall, though please remember to indent your replies with one colon " : " for each level of indent you want. As you wanted two levels of indents, you should have used two colons. Ok for now. Done for Week 1. FULBERT (talk) 13:51, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

week1

I'm Yixin Hu, nice to meet you in this page. It's great to have this opportunity here to learn about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Nanjingnan123 (talk) 04:09, 13 March 2022 (UTC) Yixin hu

Nanjingnan123, Welcome to Wikipedia! Done with Week 1. --- FULBERT (talk) 13:55, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Mar 27: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn

March 27, 11am-2pm: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn

You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering between the local Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation at Sahadi's tent in Brooklyn's Industry City.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

Sunday March 27 Wiki-Tent Brunch (RSVP on-wiki / RSVP off-wiki).

11:00am - 2:00 pm

(Industry City, Brooklyn)

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2022)

Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.

Hello, FULBERT. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sikkimese cuisine

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • First Sudanese Civil War

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Wikidata weekly summary #512

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
  - AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes

Events
- Upcoming
  - Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
- Ongoing:
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
  - Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
    - a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
    - speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
    - all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
  - Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
- Videos
  - Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
  - Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
  - Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube

Tool of the week
- Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
- Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
- Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
- Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
- The proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.

Did you know?

Development
- Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
- Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
- REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiWednesday tonight + Sunday Wiki-Tent Brunch

Online and in-person events

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WikiWednesday tonight 7-8:30pm (Mar 23) online via Zoom
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2	Macedonian Criticism of French Thought (talk)	Orphan
22	Credential evaluation (talk)	Orphan
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13	Cissonius (talk)	Stub
30	Progressive revelation (Christianity) (talk)	Stub
129	Gray magic (talk)	Stub
31	Nemetona (talk)	Stub
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wee1-

This is student shuyu Hu from your MASY-1260-200 class. I excited for join the Wikipedia studying--Shuyu1234567 (talk) 15:56, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Shuyu1234567 Please edit your post title to include spaces between the week / your user name and the " / " and then reply to me here and I will review. FULBERT (talk) 11:53, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Week 1 / DDDANII

Hello, everyone! It is nice to getting started with Wikipedia. I am Dani from the MASY1-GC1260 Research Process & Methodology class. I am looking forward to learn and explore more functions and knowledges through Wikipedia. Hopefully I can contribute to some of the edits in the future. DDDANII (talk) 11:23, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

DDDANII, Nice work, and welcome to Wikipedia. Done with Week 1. FULBERT (talk) 11:54, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Week 1 / Vermi1ion

Hi, this is user Vermi1ion. I am very much looking forward to learning how to become a Wikipedia contributor through these lessons. Vermi1ion (talk) 17:17, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Vermi1ion, Nice work, and welcome to WIkipedia! Done with Week 1. FULBERT (talk) 11:57, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Week 1 / Bunnyw0123

Hi, I am Bunny from MASY 1260 class and looking forward to learning about Wikipedia! --Bunnyw0123 (talk) 09:02, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Bunnyw0123, Welcome to Wikipedia! Done with Week 1. FULBERT (talk) 22:46, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Week 1 / Ida1234567

Hello, everyone! I am Ida from MASY 1260 class and looking forward to learning more about Wikipedia--Ida1234567 (talk) 12:54, 24 March 2022 (UTC).

Ida1234567 Welcome to Wikipedia! Done with Week 1. FULBERT (talk) 22:47, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Week 1 | Bac8980

Hi Everyone! My name is Bailey and I am in the Research Process & Methodology (MASY1-GC 1260- 200) course. Looking forward to contributing knowledge. Bac8980 (talk) 13:45, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Bac8980, Welcome to Wikipedia! Current with Week 1. FULBERT (talk) 22:49, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Week 1 / Yh3907

Hello! This is Erica from Research and Methodology course in spring 2022. I am happy to join this course on Wikipedia for learning more about writing and editing.

Yh3907 Please remember to sign each of your posts using four tilde characters ~~~~ at the end. Do this as a reply and then ping me here, and then I will take a look at it and reply. --- FULBERT (talk) 22:50, 24 March 2022 (UTC)