@Papuass @Edgars2007 -- thank you for creating this task! How did you hear about the Growth features?

@Trizek-WMF will be able to help you with the deployment process.

@Papuass @Edgars2007 -- thank you for interest regarding the Growth team features!

I let you check if the templates and help pages we need are all linked to their respective Wikidata items. The easiest way is to replace the Q... in the task description with a direct link that goes to your wiki.

Even if the Growth features work on all editors, we encourage the use of the visual editor. This way, newcomers don't have to struggle at learning the code for their first steps; they can focus on it later. As a consequence, we encourage you to provide help contents accordingly. If you don't yet have contents about editing using the visual editor, you can rely on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide.

I follow the Growth team newsletter for a while so I knew about these features. I also got some feedback about it during some of Wikimedia conferences I attended. What kept us from acting sooner is the amount of preparations needed, I guess.

We will work on the translations and update this task when there is significant progress there.

Change 678230 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Add Latvian special page aliases

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/678230

Change 678230 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Add Latvian special page aliases

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/678230

@Papuass, any update regarding this task? Anything we can help you with?

Making progress on interface translation: 84% done, started the documentation pages.
There are no objections from the community.

Let's update the status in 2 weeks.

@Papuass, any update regarding this task? Anything we can help you with?

The community has accepted the proposal to enable the feature. While there is no broader discussion there, I have been talking with people about the new features and asking them to become mentors.

https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikip%C4%93dija:Kopienas_port%C4%81ls#Izaugsmes_eksperimenti

Interface translation is 92% done, I will do one more concentrated effort there: you keep adding new strings :)

Change 697928 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] lvwiki: Enable Growth features in dark mode

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/697928

@Papuass and @Edgars2007, we miss some translations. Can you help? This is the only thing we miss to move on the deployment.

• How to write a good article
• How to edit a page
• How insert images
• How to insert references
• How to create an article

Thanks!

Here you go:

• How to write a good article = Kā uzrakstīt labu rakstu
• How to edit a page = Kā labot lapu
• How insert images = Kā ievietot attēlus
• How to insert references = Kā ievietot atsauces
• How to create an article = Kā izveidot rakstu

Thanks a lot @Papuass! Appreciated :)

Change 697928 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] lvwiki: Enable Growth features in dark mode

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/697928

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-08T11:10:29Z] <urbanecm> mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/createExtensionTables.php --wiki=lvwiki growthexperiments # T278191

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-08T11:12:41Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized dblists/growthexperiments.dblist: 73dc708efc25caa667be516c685885db3983be73: lvwiki: Enable Growth features in dark mode (T278191; 1/3) (duration: 00m 57s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-08T11:13:52Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/config/lvwiki.yaml: 73dc708efc25caa667be516c685885db3983be73: lvwiki: Enable Growth features in dark mode (T278191; 2/3) (duration: 00m 56s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-08T11:15:44Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 73dc708efc25caa667be516c685885db3983be73: lvwiki: Enable Growth features in dark mode (T278191; 3/3) (duration: 00m 58s)

@Trizek-WMF Features are now available at lvwiki in the dark mode.

@Papuass and @Edgars2007, you can now inform your community about the features! They are available in your preferences. Newcomers don't have access to these features by default, for now.

Please try the features out, and tell us if some changes have to be done regarding help links or templates.

The features will be available by default for all new accounts on your Wikipedia starting on June 23.

Change 701117 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Make Growth features available to newcomers at lvwiki and skwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/701117

Change 701117 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Make Growth features available to newcomers at lvwiki and skwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/701117

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-23T18:09:04Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: b4a786799a249d2012b9c47553a0b64fdce1bac0: Make Growth features available to newcomers at lvwiki and skwiki (T278191; T284149) (duration: 01m 06s)

The wiki was pushed out of dark mode.