We can ask experienced users who work with newcomers.

@RHo -- posting here an idea that came up today. We know that many people who create accounts aren't doing so with the intention of editing, (and this project will, of course, help us find out how many). This is a survey from English Wikipedia in 2012 indicating that up to 35% of account creators don't intend to edit.

It is possible that many of those people don't realize it's possible to edit Wikipedia. I wonder if something about our question wording or about the design of the page can tell these account creators that it is possible to edit, and that's the main reason people create accounts.

@leila -- we've made the Phabricator tasks for the project I was telling you about, in which we ask newcomers a set of optional questions right when they create their accounts in Czech and Korean Wikipedias. This is the specific task about writing the questions themselves, nested under the project's epic.

Since you have some experience asking newcomers questions, I am hoping you can follow along. We're going to be posting on this task with some draft questions.

@MMiller_WMF yup. Thanks. We had some more discussions about it last Friday and I'll reach out to you to discuss more details.

Some notes as @RHo begins to assemble the copy:

• We want it to be really clear -- not subtle -- that the questions are optional. We should also give a rationale for why the user should answer them, e.g. "to help us improve the experience for new editors".
• It should be clear that we're not going to expose the email address to anyone, including the "experienced editor".

Revised due-date to allow interested parties time to provide feedback prior to proceeding to Translate Wiki.

@MMiller_WMF - the varA copy is essentially completed, only missing links and OK from Legal. Note that the column for additional information for TranslateWiki is also completed assuming we are going with that option (else it is probably still useful for however we end up translating the text).

hi @SBisson - still waiting on Legal for the privacy statement link, but note that we've updated the welcomesurvey-question-mentor-info field slightly to the following:

We are considering starting a program for more experienced editors to help newer users with editing. Are you interested in being contacted to get help with editing?

In T206375#4710301, @RHo wrote:

hi @SBisson - still waiting on Legal for the privacy statement link, but note that we've updated the welcomesurvey-question-mentor-info field slightly to the following:

We are considering starting a program for more experienced editors to help newer users with editing. Are you interested in being contacted to get help with editing?

I've updated the message and made the privacy statement url a config variable so we can set it up later (and have different ones per wiki if needed).