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FY 2025-26 -Develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to support language onboarding and development
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This task is part of the Wikimedia Foundation department's OKR (Objectives and Key Results) work. It is connected to the Language Onboarding and Development Project and the Vital Knowledge (WE2) objective. Some interventions may also relate to other objectives and key results.

Vital Knowledge (WE2) Objective: Make more vital knowledge available and well illustrated across languages and topics. Part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Annual Plan 2025-26.

Key result WE2.1: By the end of Q2, implement 3 interventions that help contributors to improve the state of vital content on their Wikipedias.

Updates related to ongoing experiments will be added in the comments of this task and here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_Onboarding_and_Development.

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MaryMunyoki lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Jul 2 2025, 5:21 PM

Progress update on the hypothesis WE2.1.1 for the week

Team has developed high-level selection criteria and measurement plan for growth feature enablement.

Selection criteria:

  • 5 to 25 active editors
  • Maintenance templates
  • 1–2 admins

Metrics for Q1 evaluation

  • Number of accounts created
  • Number of people who used Growth features
  • Number of people who clicked and viewed the banner
  • Number of editors retained from the experiment X days later

The technical requirement for banner instrumentation has also been identified. A task has been created to set up tracking for users who create accounts through CentralNotice banners for WE2.1.1: T398646.

CentralNotice banner designs were created by Brand Studio team, shared by @MSRamos and others, and feedback was provided.

@KCVelaga and @cchen plan to share the initial list of wikis by July 11.

A new call to action for the central notice banner was suggested by @satdeep_gill and @FRomeo_WMF . It involves exploring the use of the EventRegistration tool as an informational landing page for people who are not logged in, where tasks are listed for them, and information is provided to guide them in using Growth features and participating in editathons or other community events (TBD).

MaryMunyoki renamed this task from Develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to support language onboarding and development to FY 2025-26 -Develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to support language onboarding and development.Nov 4 2025, 8:59 PM

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