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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello Paul2520, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' atSpecial:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
- Project news
- TheNew Page Feednow has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of theWMF's AfC Improvement Project.
- As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically,ORESpredictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects'stalk pagefor more info.
- There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. SeeWikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasksfor more info to see if you can help out.
- Other
- A new summary page of reliable sources has been created;Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources,which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.
- Moving to Draft and Page Mover
- Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like theymighthave promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance atWP:DRAFTIFY.
- If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clearconflict of interest.
- Articles that have been created in contravention of ourpaid-editing-requirementsor written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clearCOImight also be draftified at discretion.
- The best tool for draftification isUser:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info).Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changedlike this). Note that if you do not have thePage Moveruserright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged asCSD R2,but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
- ThePage Moveruserright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionallypage swappingis needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active atRequested Moves.Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
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Growth team updates #2
Welcome to the second newsletter for the newGrowth team!
The Growth Team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors inmid-sizeWikimedia projects.
Our plan for the next quarter is ready
After consulting with many communities on the best ways to increase retention, we will focus during the next 3 months on these projects:
- Understanding first day:to see what new editors do right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December.
- Personalized first day:this idea will also help us learn a lot about new editors by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process. We hope to share initial results in December.
- Focus on help desk:we plan to invite or redirect people to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December.
You can read about the details of this planon our team page.
How did we get to this plan?
We have set up our plan based on the8 ideas we were considering.You can read about our analysisin our team updates,and detailed discussionon each idea.
We are looking for volunteers
Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a newmid-sizewiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities.Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.
Learn more about us
You can visitour team pageto find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, andour project pagefor detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.
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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello Paul2520, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update],there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
- Community Wishlist Proposal
- There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding thedrafting of a Community Wishlist Proposalfor the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
- Pleasejoin the conversationas we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!
- Project updates
- ORES predictionsare now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
- There are now toolsbeing testedto automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
- New scripts
- User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info)— A new script created for quickly placing{{copyvio-revdel}}on a page.
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Growth team updates #3
Welcome to the third newsletter for the newGrowth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors inmid-sizeWikimedia projects.
Two Growth team projects to be deployed in next two weeks
We will be deploying the "Understanding first day" and "Personalized first day" projects on Czech and Korean Wikipedias in the coming weeks. See the new project pages below for full details on the projects, andour project updates pagefor their progress.
- Understanding first day:learn about the actions new editors take right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December.
- Personalized first day:learn about new editors' objectives by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process, and personalizing their onboarding. We hope to share initial results in December.
Third Growth team project begins
- Focus on help desk:direct newcomers to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December.
Best practices for helping newcomers
We are going to direct newcomers to help desks. But what's the best way to reply to a newcomer there?We have gathered some best practicesfor successful interactions, based on community experiences and some external documentation. The page has also been reviewed by some experienced community members who suggested some changes. That page is nowopen for translations.Comments and suggestionsare still welcome!
We are still looking for volunteers
Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a newmid-sizewiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities.Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.
Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!
Learn more about us
You can visitour team pageto find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, andour project pagefor detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.
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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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Hello Paul2520,
- Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – VoteNOW
- Community WishlistVoting takes place16 to 30 Novemberfor thePage Curation and New Pages Feed improvements,and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This isvery importantas we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
- If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
- We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
- With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See alsoThe SignpostSpecial report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers',and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at anarticle in this month's upcoming issueofThe Signpostwhich unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.
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TheArbitration Committeeis the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process.It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans,editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policydescribes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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Growth team updates #4
Welcome to the fourth newsletter for the newGrowth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors inmid-sizeWikimedia projects.
We need your feedback!
We have two requests for community members:
- Now that data is coming in for the welcome survey, we are planning how to use that data to personalize the newcomer's first day. See ourcurrent thoughts here,and join theconversation here.
- Try out the help panel'sinteractive prototype,and read abouthow we're planning to roll it out,and postany thoughts or reactions here.
Two Growth team projects have been deployed (detailed updateshere)
- Personalized first day(welcome survey) was deployed on November 20 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
- The survey is now being shown to half of new users (A/B test). Responses are being recorded in the database. We'll report on initial results during December.
- We are planning to test a second version of the survey, called "Variation C",which we think will maximize the number of users who complete the survey and stay on the wiki.
- The original objective of this project was to give newcomers the materials they need to achieve their goals, and so now we are currently planning how we will use the information collected in the welcome survey to personalize the newcomer's experience. We hope community members will readour current thinkingand join theconversation here.Some of the plans we are considering include:
- Making it easy for newcomers to see editing activity around the topic areas in which they indicated that they're interested.
- Connecting interested newcomers to experienced editors.
- Surfacing the help content most relevant to the reason for which the newcomers created their accounts.
- Understanding first day(EditorJourney) was deployed on November 15 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias. It has been done after a longer security review and final testing than expected. Data is now being recorded for all new users on those wikis, and we've been auditing the data and preparing to make initial reports during December. Stay tuned for the next newsletter!
Help panel is under construction
- Focus on help desk(help panel) is planned to be deployed during the week of January 7 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
- Thisinteractive prototypeis the best way to see the design and wording in the feature.
- We ran live user tests on the prototype, withresults posted here.
- In addition to giving the ability to ask a question, the help panel will also contain a set of links to existing help content. Our ambassadors on Czech and Korean Wikipedias are determining the right initial set of most helpful links in this task.
- We encourage community members totry out the prototypeandread about the rulesfor who will get the feature, and add any thoughts tothis discussion.
We are still looking for volunteers
Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a newmid-sizewiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities.Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.
Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!
Learn more about us
You can visitour team pageto find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, andour project updates pagefor detailed updates on the projects we work on.
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Kleban Awards
I didn't realize in Ed Kleban's page, the awards are already listed.
Wikipedia Day 2019
There's discussion atWikipedia talk:Meetup/Minnesotaof a celebration in the Twin Cities on January 19. It would be great if that fits your schedule.Jonathunder(talk)01:40, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello Paul2520,
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's award for theReviewer of the Yeargoes toOnel5969.Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
- Thanks are also extended for their work toJTtheOG(15,059 reviews),Boleyn(12,760reviews),Cwmhiraeth(9,001reviews),Semmendinger(8,440reviews),PRehse(8,092reviews),Arthistorian1977(5,306reviews),Abishe(4,153 reviews),Barkeep49(4,016reviews), andElmidae(3,615reviews).
Cwmhiraeth,Semmendinger,Barkeep49,andElmidaehave been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, whileBoleyn,with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.
See also thelist of top100 reviewers.
- Less good news, and an appeal for some help
The backlog is now approaching5,000,and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
- Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals.See the results.
- Training video
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Thank you Sir. Will keep that in mind.LOBOSKYJOJO(talk)03:20, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Write for the Rights Tunis
HI Paul2520. Happy new year my friend. First, I want to thank you about endorsing my grant proposal for the LGBTQI+ Editathon I am organizing next march. Just to update you, the proposal got accepted, and this event is really happening. I don't know if you checked the meta page of the event, but we have room for 10 or 11 participants to come from different countries and participate with us. For now, we have people coming from Spain, France, and Germany. But no person from the American continent or who will write in english. I wanted to see with you if you are interested/available to come and join us in Tunis? What do you think of the idea?Houssem Abida(talk)10:36, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi,Houssem Abida,and thank you for your message! Happy new year to you, as well! I was very happy to endorseyour proposalwhen I read it.
- I would bevery interestedto participate in person. I would need to discuss some details. Would my travel expenses be covered? Would accommodation? =paul2520(talk)13:24, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Dear@Paul2520:,yes. Accomodation, food and local transportation will be covered for all participants. Yet, for flight tickets, we are trying to find a way for each participant seperately. Some of the confirmed participants got the help of their local chapter or UG. For others, I am seeing with sponsors. Do you think your local Wikimedia affiliation can help you? Or can you find a sponsor from the US?Houssem Abida(talk)19:50, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- HiHoussem Abida!I have been thinking about this a lot, and am definitely interested to see what I can do. Give me a few days to ponder & reach out to who I can about sponsorship. I assume it would be appropriate to email you directly to talk further? I see an email on your user page. =paul2520(talk)13:37, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi. Yes for sure. Here is my email: [email protected]. Please tell me if you need other details that can potentially help you finding a sponsor.Houssem Abida(talk)17:02, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi,Houssem Abida!Sorry for the delay. I've been thinking about this for more than a few days. I also spoke toRachelWex.While I'm very interested in this & would love to visit Tunisia.I sent a follow-up email to discuss further.
- I'm also very happy to support your work remotely. I could start new articles, review articles/content the group develops, etc. =paul2520(talk)18:51, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi@Paul2520:,I am writing about my current edit onBruce Gilley.In my opinion it can be better formatted again and referenced in the section "Selected publications", as one of its authored publications.
The Giley's publication Against the concept of ethnic conflict "I have added on my edit, is just quoted on the articleEthnic conflict,and isfreelyavailable atthe link] I have referenced.
I have selected this publication for the following reasons:
- inethnic conflict#Study in the post-Cold War worldit is quoted as a publication that questioned if the "the concept of ethnic conflict is useful at all". So it could be listed as one of the author's innovations and debated articles, as it was the 2006 article "The meaning and measure of state legitimacy: results for 72 countries", reeferenced inBruce Gilley#Political legitimacy.
- in the abstract of "Democracy Divisions: A Source of Conflict?",that:" several logit regression analyses on a pooled time-series sample of 126 nations from 1948 to 1982. The findings show that ethnic heterogeneity is not associated with higher levels of violence within nations, except under certain political conditions. Both democracy and economic development relate to political violence in a curvilinear inverted U-shape form. "
The democracy is listed as one of the possible forms of thePolitical legitimacy.If the ethnic conflict is a possibile form of political violence caused by ethnic heterogeneity, it may be negatively correlated with democracy, or some other types of political legittimacy. I read this before my contribution, but I haven't enough material to corroborate adequately this argumentation. So I limited my contribution only to an additional reference.
This publication hasmore than 155 citations,and it comes from apeer-reviewed journalof theSAGE Publishing.The author is professor Demet Yalcin Mousseau, that co-authored some works with the political scientistMichael Mousseau,specialized incomparative politicslike professor Gilley, in particular relatively to "the link between economic conditions, institutions, and conflict", as it may be the ethnic conflict we are talking about.Micheledisaveriosp(talk)12:43, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi,Micheledisaveriosp,and thanks for reaching out. First of all,THANK YOU!Addinggood referencesisalwaysa welcome improvement to our encyclopedia. I did some minor formatting of your addition. I also moved it out of the footnote, since, as you mention, Gilley wrote the work.
- This isn't an area of specialty for me, but I believe the contribution is integrated to the page properly now. Feel free to reach out in the future with questions. But above all,be boldin your contributions. If you see something to improve or add, please do so. You can always start a discussion on the talk page of the article if you aren't sure the content is relevant, etc. =paul2520(talk)18:10, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi@Paul2520:,thank you for having formatted correctly my edit. Because I am not an expert about the matter, I limited my contribution only adding a new reference non integrated in the article. Strangely, thr "Against the concept of ethnic conflict" can be freely downloaded and also it is available on some commercial databases, so as to be avoided to be linked at all. Thank you again.Micheledisaveriosp(talk)19:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Micheledisaveriosp:yes, if it's freely available, best not to link to something that requires a subscription or has apaywall.=paul2520(talk)19:53, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi@Paul2520:,thank you for having formatted correctly my edit. Because I am not an expert about the matter, I limited my contribution only adding a new reference non integrated in the article. Strangely, thr "Against the concept of ethnic conflict" can be freely downloaded and also it is available on some commercial databases, so as to be avoided to be linked at all. Thank you again.Micheledisaveriosp(talk)19:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Meetup
Hello. Nice meeting you Saturday. Hope you enjoy the cake. If there's anything I can ever do to help, let me know.Jonathunder(talk)16:09, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
- Likewise,Jonathunder!It was great to meet you in person & get to know a bit about your background. Thanks again for the cake:-) =paul2520(talk)16:22, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Meetup
Paul, it was nice to meet you. Now I have your name and face together in memory. I hope you won't mind, I am about to remove one meetup photo because I don't feel that old yet. You did some great referencing on the Uptown Theater, thank you. If you ever want to please feel free to help out atPortal:Minnesota.See you around. -SusanLesch(talk)15:31, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
- It was wonderful to meet you too,SusanLesch!Thanks for the message. No worries about removing the photo from the events page; the other ones are great. =paul2520(talk)17:08, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
- It was terrifically difficult to walk away from half a chocolate cake. Glad someone took it. -SusanLesch(talk)14:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
- @SusanLesch:I shared it, and it was very much enjoyed by all:-) =paul2520(talk)14:43, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
- It was terrifically difficult to walk away from half a chocolate cake. Glad someone took it. -SusanLesch(talk)14:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
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Growth team updates #5
Welcome to the fifth newsletter for the newGrowth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors inmid-sizeWikimedia projects.
New projects for discussion
We began the "Personalized first day"project with thewelcome surveyso that we could gather information about what newcomers are trying to accomplish. The next step is to use that information to create experiences that help the newcomers accomplish their goal – actually personalizing their first day. We asked for community thoughtsin the previous newsletter,and after discussing with community members and amongst our team, we are now planning two projects as next steps: "engagement emails" and "newcomer homepage".
- Engagement emails:this project was first discussed positively by community membershereback in September 2018, and the team how has bandwidth to pursue it. The idea is that newcomers who leave the wiki don't get encouraged to return to the wiki and edit. We can engage them through emails that send them the specific information they need to be successful – such as contact from a mentor, the impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read overthe project page,and comment onits discussion pagewith any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?
- Newcomer homepage:we developed the idea for this project after analyzing the data from the welcome survey andEditorJourney datasets.We saw that many newcomers seem to be looking for a place to get started – a place that collects their past work, options for future work, and ways to learn more. We can build this place, and it can connect to the engagement emails. The content of both could be guided by what newcomers say they need during their welcome survey, and contain things like contact from a mentor, impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read overthe project page,and comment onits discussion pagewith any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?
Initial reports on newcomer activity
We have published initial reports on each of the team's first two projects. These reports give the basic numbers from each project, and there are many more questions we will continue to answer in future reports. We're excited about these initial findings. They have already helped us define and design parts of our future projects.
- Welcome survey:the initial report on welcome survey responses isavailable here.Some of the main findings:
- Most users respond to the survey, giving it high response rates of 67% and 62% in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, respectively.
- The survey does not cause newcomers to be less likely to edit.
- The most common reason for creating an account in Korean Wikipedia is to read articles—not for editing—with 29% of Korean users giving that responses.
- Large numbers of respondents said they are interested in being contacted to get help with editing: 36% in Czech and 53% in Korean.
- Understanding first day:the initial report on what newcomers do on their first day isavailable here.Some of the main findings:
- Large numbers of users view help or policy pages on their first day: 42% in Czech and 28% in Korean.
- Large numbers of users view their own User or User Talk page on their first day: 34% in Czech and 39% in Korean.
- Amajorityof new users open an editor on their first day – but about a quarter of them do not go on to save an edit during that time.
Help panel deployment
Thehelp panelwas deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on January 10. Over the past four weeks:
- About 400 newcomers in each wiki have seen the help panel button.
- About 20% of them open up the help panel.
- About 50% of those who open it up click on one of the links.
- About 5% of Czech users ask questions, and about 1% of Korean users ask questions.
We think that the 20% open rate and 50% click rate are strong numbers, showing that a lot of people are looking for help, and many want to help themselves by looking at help pages. The somewhat lower numbers of asking questions (especially in Korean Wikipedia) has caused us to consider new features to allow people to help themselves. We're going to be adding a search bar to the help panel next, which will allow users to type a search that only looks for pages in the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
How to create a good feedback page?
What is the way to built a good help page? What blocks you when writing an help page?Your replieswill help to create better help contents to newcomers, that would be used on Help panel.
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NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Paul2520,
- News
- The WMFhas announcedthat Google Translate is now available for translating articles through thecontent translation tool.This may result in an increase inmachine translatedarticles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the{{rough translation}}tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution perWP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements ofCSD G6have been split into their own criteria:R4for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), andG14for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}}was merged intoG13(Discussion)
- A discussionrecently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline fortheatrical plays.
- There is anongoing discussionon a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines forchemicalsandorganism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binarykeep/deleteprocess. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. Thedeletion policyand its associatedguidelineclearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. Seea classic exampleof the templates to use. More templates are listed at theR template index.Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
- Superlinks– allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
- copyvio-check– automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
- TheNPP flowchartnow has clickable hyperlinks.
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DYK
I am going to review your nomination. But before I do, I am concerned by the over reliance on MNopedia. Any chance you could add the following sources. I do NOT expect additional text just additional RS for verification:
- https:// newspapers /clip/29582210/star_tribune/
- https:// newspapers /clip/29582245/star_tribune/
- https:// newspapers /clip/29582298/the_minneapolis_star/
- https:// newspapers /clip/29582344/star_tribune/
- https:// newspapers /clip/29582387/star_tribune/
Cheers. -----Coffeeandcrumbs20:45, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the refs,Coffeeandcrumbs!The "More legible copies" links are listed as not public (even though I have a Newspapers account through the Wikipedia Library). I added all the other references at appropriate locations; seethis edit.=paul2520(talk)00:05, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry about that. They are public now if you want to use them in the future. I will review the DYK now. Great work!---Coffeeandcrumbs00:31, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Growth team updates #6
Welcome to the sixth newsletter from theGrowth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors inmid-sizeWikimedia projects.
Plans for the next three months
The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of thehelp paneland thenewcomer homepage.We have decided not to start theengagement emailsproject, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:
- Deploy and iterate on newcomer homepage
- Continued iteration on help panel
- Make the help panel available to more wikis
- Add a fourth Wikipedia to our set of target wikis
- Publish in-depth quantitative reporting on the data from this year
- Assemble a report on what our team has learned so far about newcomers
Newcomer homepage
We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:
- Shown in the User space
- Desktop only (mobile comes next)
- Four modules
- Help module: help links and ability to ask help desk questions
- Mentorship module: all newcomers assigned a mentor to whom they can ask questions
- Impact module: shows the number of pageviews for pages the newcomer edited
- Account completion module: gives some very simple recommendations of how to get started (add an email, start your user page)
- Layout not yet personalized for each user
We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.
Help panel
During the last month, thehelp panelwas deployed on Vietnamese Wikipedia, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:
- 2,425 newcomers have seen the help panel
- 422 of them have opened it
- 175 have clicked links
- 27 have run searches
- 40 have asked questions
We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us onour team's talk page,in the language of your choice.
Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.
- We added a search capability, in which users can search the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
- The help panel was previously available whenever a newcomer was in "edit" mode. We are nowalsoshowing the help panel when a newcomer is in "read" mode on a page in the Help, Wikipedia, or User namespaces.
We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.
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