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User talk:Insertcleverphrasehere/Archive 18
December with Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020). 
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Growth team updates #16Welcome 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 impactNewcomer 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:
We also find that the quality of their edits, as measured by revert rate, is comparable to that of a control group.
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:
Learn more about Growth results here, and please post any feedback or questions on the talk page. Variants C and DVariants 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 mentorsA 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 newsThe 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
14:22, 7 December 2020 (UTC) New Page Patrol December Newsletter Hello Insertcleverphrasehere,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition. Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here 18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC) Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC) Happy holidaysThis year, many people had COVID to fear,
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Merry Christmas
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A New Year With Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Happy New Year! Empire AS Talk! — is wishing you a Happy New Year! It's the last day of 2020 and tomorrow will be 2025. Hope the coming year brings pleasures for you. Have a prosperous, enjoyable and a productive 2025. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:New Year 2}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Empire AS Talk! 18:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – January 2021News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
February 2021 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021). Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC) March 2021 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Growth team newsletter #17 Welcome to the seventeenth 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. Structured tasksAdd a link: the team is continuing to engineer on our first "structured task", which will break down the workflow of adding wikilinks to articles, and assist newcomers with an algorithm to identify words and phrases that could be made into links. Add an image: even as we build our first structured task, we have been thinking about the next one. "Add an image" is a structured task in which newcomers would be recommended images from Wikimedia Commons to add to unillustrated articles. This is an ambitious idea with many details to consider. We have already learned a lot from community members, and we encourage everyone to look at the project page and join the discussion. Moving forward: more wikis to get the featuresLast November, our team published the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers. Because of these results, we believe all Wikipedias should implement these features. We have started to contact more wikis to deploy the features, including Wikipedias of all sizes. Bengali Wikipedia recently began using Growth features, and Danish, Thai, Indonesian, and Romanian Wikipedias will be coming soon. Please contact us if you have questions regarding deployment. We are looking for translators who can help by translating the interface. Translating is done on Translatewiki.net (it requires a different account that your Wikimedia one). Communities that already have the Growth features being deployed are invited to check on the translations. Access translations here. Variant testingAs mentioned in our previous newsletter, we ran a test of two variants of the newcomer homepage, meant to find a version that increases users completing suggested edits. We have completed the experiment, and learned that one of the variants leads to more edits on desktop while the other leads to more edits on mobile. Therefore, we will deploy the strongest variants for each platform to all newcomers. News for mentorsMentor dashboard: we have interviewed mentors from several communities as we plan a mentor dashboard feature, which would help mentors track the progress of their mentees. We encourage all mentors to share their thoughts on tools that would help them. Magic word for mentors: it is now possible to use a magic word, Help panel questions going to mentors: in most wikis, newcomers using the help panel ask questions to the help desk. On Czech Wikipedia, we have experimented with sending these questions to mentors instead. This simplifies the newcomer experience, and only led to a increase in mentorship questions of about 30%. We tried this in Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedias, and we are making it the default experience. Growth team's newsletter prepared by the Growth team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC) April editathons from Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
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May 2021 at Women in Red
--Rosiestep (talk) 21:36, 28 April 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging RfC on racial hereditarianism at the R&I talk-pageAn RfC at Talk:Race and intelligence revisits the question, considered last year at WP:FTN, of whether or not the theory that a genetic link exists between race and intelligence is a fringe theory. This RfC supercedes the recent RfC on this topic at WP:RSN that was closed as improperly formulated. Your participation is welcome. Thank you. NightHeron (talk) 20:55, 3 May 2021 (UTC) |
