Deploy Growth features on English Wikipedia
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This task to coordinate the trial of Growth team tools at English Wikipedia. Current discussions plan to start deploying to 2% of new accounts (2,600 accounts per month). The trial would run for one month.

First, we deploy in dark mode, so that community members can try the features.

Help panel

Help pages	Description	Link
Manual of style	How to write a good article	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/1
Help:Editing	How to edit a page	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_editing_with_VisualEditor/1
Inserting images (using the visual editor)	How to add an image	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_images_with_VisualEditor/1
Inserting references (using the visual editor)	How to edit a citation	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_VisualEditor/1
Article Wizard	How to create a new article	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard

Search on namespaces: 4 "Wikipedia" and 12 "Help" (default)
Read more : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Mentorship module

Signature list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Growth_Team_features/Mentor_list

Suggested edits

Suggested edits are based on these 5 task-types.
At the moment, they can't be substituted.
Please check maintenance template and links:

Task	Difficulty level	Task description	Maintenance templates	Learn more
Copyedit article	Easy	Fix spelling, grammar and tone	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Copy_edit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Awkward, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Copy_edit_inline, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Copy_edit_section, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Inappropriate_person	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_copyediting
Add Links	Easy	Add links between articles	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Underlinked, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dead_end	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_editing_with_VisualEditor/3
Update article	Medium	Bring existing articles up-to-date	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Update	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention
Add References	Medium	Find sources for existing articles	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Unreferenced and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Unreferenced_section	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
Expand article	Hard	Expand stubs to become sourced articles	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Stub and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Expand_section	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles

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Deployment notes

Phrase 1: Deploy to 2 % of newcomers

On June 07, Growth team features should be deployed to 2% of English Wikipedia newcomers. This means:

Homepage/help panel will be available to 2% of users
Welcome survey will be shown to 2% of users
Welcome survey will be shown to the same group of people as the homepage (same 2% group)
Add a link will not be enabled

Details

Due Date: Jun 7 2021, 7:00 AM

Related Changes in Gerrit:

Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
enwiki: Deploy Growth freatures to 2% of new accounts	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -1
Set WelcomeSurveyEnableWithHomepage	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+5 -0
enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -1
enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -1
Growth: enwiki: Add list of mentors	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -0
Growth features: enwiki: Fix help panel links	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+5 -5
Enable Growth features on enwiki in the dark mode	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+32 -0

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Goal	Trizek-WMF	T228980 [goal] Deploy Growth features on Wikipedias
Resolved	Jun 7 2021	Urbanecm_WMF	T281896 Deploy Growth features on English Wikipedia
Resolved		kostajh	T283221 GrowthExperiments adds 2.1K cost to Wikipedia pageviews [alert: Startup threshold exceeded]
Resolved		• mewoph	T287209 GrowthExperiments: consolidate icon modules
Resolved		• mewoph	T287218 GrowthExperiments: inline ext.growthExperiments.Homepage.Topics
Invalid		• mewoph	T287219 GrowthExperiments: Inline ext.growthExperiments.Homepage.Logger
Resolved		• mewoph	T289060 Create single homepage module and single account creation related module
Resolved		• mewoph	T299807 Consolidate ext.growthExperiments.Homepage.ConfirmEmail.styles
Declined		• mewoph	T300680 Consolidate HelpPanelCta.styles and HelpPanel.init into HelpPanel module
Resolved		Urbanecm_WMF	T284127 Make it possible to deploy welcomesurvey to % of users that's not divisible by 10
Resolved		Urbanecm_WMF	T284257 Align welcome survey treatment group with homepage treatment group

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Restricted Application changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Deadline". · View Herald TranscriptMay 4 2021, 4:17 PM

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Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 4 2021, 4:19 PM

Change 684988 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable Growth features on enwiki in the dark mode

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/684988

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 4 2021, 4:44 PM

Maintenance_bot added a project: User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering).May 4 2021, 4:45 PM

This may be appropriate for a User-notice or a similar FYI at WP:VPT (since user notice is all wikis I guess).

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 4 2021, 4:57 PM

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 4 2021, 5:39 PM

In T281896#7058449, @Izno wrote:

This may be appropriate for a User-notice or a similar FYI at WP:VPT (since user notice is all wikis I guess).

Of course, we plan to inform the wiki more broadly. this task has been created after getting an agreement at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Growth_Team_features, which includes posting announcements at the right places. Feel free to join!

Like you said, User-notice is too broad (targets all wikis) and won't be used for this.

kostajh triaged this task as Medium priority.May 4 2021, 7:05 PM

kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Upcoming Work on the Growth-Team board.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-04T23:26:31Z] <Urbanecm> Create tables for GrowthExperiments extension on enwiki (T281896)

Change 684988 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable Growth features on enwiki in the dark mode

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/684988

Change 685140 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Growth features: enwiki: Fix help panel links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/685140

Urbanecm_WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)); removed Growth-Team.May 4 2021, 11:34 PM

Change 685140 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Growth features: enwiki: Fix help panel links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/685140

@Trizek-WMF The wiki was just pushed to the dark mode.

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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-04T23:38:42Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: d29dbb2f435afe64f2fee15b430ee04d5d13c8d7: Enable Growth features on enwiki in the dark mode (T281896; 1/3) (duration: 01m 09s)

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Backlog to Dark Mode Enabled on the Growth-Deployments board.May 4 2021, 11:38 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-04T23:40:16Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized dblists/growthexperiments.dblist: d29dbb2f435afe64f2fee15b430ee04d5d13c8d7: Enable Growth features on enwiki in the dark mode (T281896; 2/3) (duration: 01m 09s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-04T23:41:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/config/enwiki.yaml: d29dbb2f435afe64f2fee15b430ee04d5d13c8d7: Enable Growth features on enwiki in the dark mode (T281896; 3/3) (duration: 01m 09s)

Urbanecm_WMF claimed this task.May 4 2021, 11:43 PM

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Backlog to In review on the User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering) board.

Change 685143 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Growth: enwiki: Add list of mentors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/685143

Change 685143 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Growth: enwiki: Add list of mentors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/685143

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-05T00:08:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 3f6ea8c0e5a4dc667969f5847207902727625bbe: Growth: enwiki: Add list of mentors (T281896) (duration: 01m 10s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 5 2021, 12:10 AM

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 5 2021, 5:39 PM

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 5 2021, 7:07 PM

Hi Growth Team! Following up from on-wiki discussion here, I would suggest a few initial changes:

Replace the "how to create a new article" link, which currently goes to the superseded old version of the article wizard, with a link to Help:Your first article (a messy page that needs some streamlining but is the most appropriate target) or at least to the modern wizard.
Replace the "how to write a good article" link, which currently goes to the comprehensive but not beginner-friendly full MOS, with Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/1 or a similar page. It should also probably not be listed first—experienced editors can pretty easily fix style mistakes, whereas other beginner mistakes are more costly.
In the fifth panel of the "find references" quick start tips, replace "Reliable sources include books, news organizations, and magazine articles" with "Reliable sources include reputable books, news organizations, and magazine articles". The addition of the word "reputable" communicates that not all news organizations/etc. are reliable.

Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T282548: Highlight the fact that source must be "reputable".May 11 2021, 12:46 PM

Thank you for your feedback, @Sdkb.

In T281896#7076768, @Sdkb wrote:

Replace the "how to create a new article" link, which currently goes to the superseded old version of the article wizard, with a link to Help:Your first article (a messy page that needs some streamlining but is the most appropriate target) or at least to the modern wizard.

Should a messy page replace a step by step process? From a newcomer point of view, a long page won't be read, I'm afraid.

Replace the "how to write a good article" link, which currently goes to the comprehensive but not beginner-friendly full MOS, with Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/1 or a similar page. It should also probably not be listed first—experienced editors can pretty easily fix style mistakes, whereas other beginner mistakes are more costly.

Let's go with Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/1. :)

In the fifth panel of the "find references" quick start tips, replace "Reliable sources include books, news organizations, and magazine articles" with "Reliable sources include reputable books, news organizations, and magazine articles". The addition of the word "reputable" communicates that not all news organizations/etc. are reliable.

We designed the features for mid-sized Wikipedias. On some of these wikis, the idea of providing references is not as developed as it can be on bigger Wikipedias. Adding a source is a first step. Having it as being "reputable" is one step forward. Also, not everyone agrees on what is a "reputable source". I regularly notice it as a volunteer mentor at French Wikipedia. I'm tracking this potential change there: T282548: Highlight the fact that source must be "reputable".

@Urbanecm_WMF, can you change the Manual of style link in the help panel?
"How to write a good article" should go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_the_Manual_of_Style/1

Change 689069 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/689069

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 11 2021, 1:41 PM

Change 689069 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/689069

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-11T13:47:36Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 1d4d00798bb24daa4e5b81b6c2ecda6143a6c6f0: enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links (T281896) (duration: 01m 02s)

In T281896#7077951, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

@Urbanecm_WMF, can you change the Manual of style link in the help panel?
"How to write a good article" should go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_the_Manual_of_Style/1

Just did that. Let me know if there's anything else to change.

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 11 2021, 2:11 PM

Using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard rather than [[Help:Your first article]] would be fine for the present. The eventualist in me looks to H:YFA as what should ultimately become the most appropriate target, but the wizard does link there which is probably enough.

Let's go with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard then!

@Urbanecm_WMF, can you change "How to create a new article" link in the help panel with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard? Thanks!

Change 689878 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/689878

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 12 2021, 2:03 PM

Change 689878 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/689878

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-05-12T18:05:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 11defd4181103598222df34d9f1aa6dc428f66cd: enwiki: Growth features: Change help panel links (T281896) (duration: 01m 23s)

@Trizek-WMF Apparently I forgot to press submit, sorry. This was done yesterday.

Krinkle added a subtask: T283221: GrowthExperiments adds 2.1K cost to Wikipedia pageviews [alert: Startup threshold exceeded].May 20 2021, 2:46 AM

@Urbanecm_WMF -- we're going to start the test on English Wikipedia to 2% of newcomers on June 7. This should not include "add a link".

MMiller_WMF set Due Date to Jun 7 2021, 7:00 AM.Jun 2 2021, 12:50 AM

In T281896#7128124, @MMiller_WMF wrote:

@Urbanecm_WMF -- we're going to start the test on English Wikipedia to 2% of newcomers on June 7. This should not include "add a link".

Thanks for the info @MMiller_WMF. I'll prepare a patch.

I see that @Krinkle from Performance-Team marked T283221 as a blocker. Could it be clarified if T283221 should indeed be considered blocking this deployment? @Krinkle Note the extension is already enabled at enwiki (merely not yet available to newcomers). AFAIK, that means the modules are registered, but not used (for most users).

In T281896#7128124, @MMiller_WMF wrote:

@Urbanecm_WMF -- we're going to start the test on English Wikipedia to 2% of newcomers on June 7. This should not include "add a link".

Based on off-Phab conversation with @MMiller_WMF, the percentage should be 2% for the welcome survey as well (we normally deploy welcomesurvey to 100% of users rather than 80%).

Urbanecm_WMF mentioned this in T284127: Make it possible to deploy welcomesurvey to % of users that's not divisible by 10.Jun 2 2021, 6:58 AM

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from In review to In progress on the User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering) board.Jun 2 2021, 4:20 PM

Urbanecm_WMF added a subtask: T284257: Align welcome survey treatment group with homepage treatment group.Jun 3 2021, 8:54 PM

Change 698552 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set WelcomeSurveyEnableWithHomepage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/698552

Change 698555 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Deploy Growth freatures to 2% of new accounts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/698555

Urbanecm_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 7 2021, 3:06 PM

Change 698552 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set WelcomeSurveyEnableWithHomepage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/698552

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-07T18:04:08Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 5de2f8b27b016a2cd8f424d8e40318edde5e5704: Set WelcomeSurveyEnableWithHomepage (T281896, T284257) (duration: 00m 59s)

Stashbot mentioned this in T284257: Align welcome survey treatment group with homepage treatment group.Jun 7 2021, 6:04 PM

Urbanecm_WMF closed subtask T284127: Make it possible to deploy welcomesurvey to % of users that's not divisible by 10 as Resolved.Jun 7 2021, 9:30 PM

Change 698555 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Deploy Growth freatures to 2% of new accounts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/698555

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-08T11:05:57Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: abd401074247d1f1dd2722c2d4d06747b066d547: enwiki: Deploy Growth freatures to 2% of new accounts (T281896) (duration: 00m 57s)