Volunteers translators have been pinged. Once their work is done, we can proceed on the distribution.

We can deploy it everywhere as the test was conclusive.

I saw it working at my wiki and it is great!

The section "Features deployed by default" above the deployment table lists the wikis where the features are deployed by default: all Wikipedias, French Wiktionary and Wikidata have access to mentorship. Up to them to configure it locally and activate it. The table is for features that are not default features everywhere.

Great, I added it to the next issue.

For Tech News:

Revise Tone encourages users to improve the tone on existing articles. It was A/B tested for 4 months on Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias. Newcomer task completion rates rose by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no drop in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. A release t more wikis will be planned.

The results have been published on wiki.

@Mathglot, what is your need here?

As it is possible:

• to define a threshold in Community configuration to exclude experienced editors from mentorship, at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship
• to opt-out from mentorship from your personal preferences
• T403563: V1 release: Do not automatically enroll experienced editors into Mentorship when they visit the Homepage was released

As communities have other venues to talk about the configuration, we are not prioritizing it for now.

In T427386#12072277, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

Yes, that is correct. It would be much more challenging to time it precisely. It should happen within the 3 days. I'd be okay making the script daily if needed, but not more often. We can also try and see if we get any feedback.

In T427386#12071615, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

It runs every ~3 days (first run is on the first day of the month; then every 3rd day afterwards; this _can_ lead to occasionally the script running slightly more often).

In T427386#12070205, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

In T427386#12061059, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

Will the new maintenance script immediately start running and we can watch and double-check things on frwiki right away?

Indeed. I would do the first run manually, observe it does the expected results, and then it would run every few days. The only remaining thing is a date :)

In T428220#12070146, @neriah wrote:

Hi. the hewikisource community would prefer not to have this feature, because it encourages users who created an account on another device to create an additional account. Would it be possible to disable this feature based on a local community decision?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-forbidden-new-account is a locally updated message at the English Wikipedia.

Currently tested at: French Wikipedia.

In T424912#12043064, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

Blacklisted username The link "has been blacklisted" refers to the Talk page -https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Title_blacklist not to the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Title_blacklist

I wonder if we should work on an improvement for this? This seems like a very long error message, and it would be ideal if we didn't call this "blacklisted". Although I suppose the underlying list name won't change, so perhaps we shouldn't change the error message. @Trizek-WMF - as this list and process is managed by Meta-Wiki administrators and stewards, I assume we should just leave this as is?

Thank you for the updates on the documentation page. I added the info to Tech News.

"Starting next week" is good to me.

Can you document the change on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Types please?

Will be deployed via the release train on the Week of June 29th (AKA deployed to all wikis on July 2nd).

If the deployment is next week I should add it to this week's edition. Any tentative start date would be welcomed, as it is more precise than "soon". Is there any public documentation to link to, or this task is enough for filters maintainers?

@Dreamy_Jazz, is there a date for "soon"? :)
Are you looking for an announcement, for feedback...?

@Dreamy_Jazz is there anything that changed to move this task from Not ready to announce to To Triage on the User-notice board? Has this task evolved?

When a mentor is suspended, they are marked as away, the same way the'd mark themselves as away, or an admin park them as away. All questions to them are dispatched to other mentors -- plural, as the goal to prevent other mentors being overwhelmed. You can resume mentorship by marking you as active in your Mentor Dashboard. By doing this, you will get new questions from your assigned mentees (the conversations they started with another mentor remain active at that mentor's talk page) and new mentees are assigned to you.

When a mentor is suspended due to inactivity, we must make sure that they won't re-enter immediatly mentorship while they are still not available and hence would be automatically re-suspended for inactivity rapidly. This would be counter-productive for their mentees.

We can mention in in Tech News, ideally with the modules that would be activated. @Arian_Bozorg have you already worked on the community configuration?

Yes!

We have two communities that noticed the change: German and French. I asked them if they would like to test it.

Was it deployed?

In T321509#12012962, @UOzurumba wrote:

@Trizek-WMF I am guessing this is not ready to be announced.

For Tech News:

Mentorship is most effective when active experienced users act as mentors. To support the community's efforts in curating the mentor list, the Growth team [[mw:Help:Growth/Mentorship#Automated_mentor_list_cleanup|made it possible to remove inactive users automatically]]. Inactivity is determined by edits made (users who log in periodically, but don't edit, will be considered inactive). Administrators may enable this feature via Community configuration using the Mentorship configuration section. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321509]

No release date until the developers work on this.

For Tech News:

As part of the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Contributors/Account_Creation_Experiments Account Creation Experiments], the Growth team tested adding an account icon on the Mobile web experience. This resulted in an increase of 20% of account creation on mobile. Starting $date, this icon will be deployed to all wikis.

forgot to report that I checked it

Moved to Epic for clarity, with a subtask for each sprint.

In T422544#11804103, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

I'll post at en:WP:VPT on the 17th.

I'll post at en:WP:VPT on the 17th.

Thanks! :)

If it only impacts tech audiences, in particular specialized ones, then yes, mediawiki-api-announce is a better option.

In T420154#11779020, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

In T420154#11778975, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

@Trizek-WMF - Can you take a look at this and decide if this needs to be added to tech news?

Impact: Tools like Tool-echo-chamber are currently unable to read notifications (they'll need to request access to the "View my notifications" grant, which will be available once the pending patches merge).

When is the end date for this A/B test?

Possible inspirations:

Thanks!

In T420748#11772733, @Raine wrote:

Can we get a status update from the CommRel side please?

Done on my side.

Post-switch report

Nice!

In T413974#11749381, @Blake wrote:

The read-only time is over and the switchover has been completed successfully. Thank you!

Crap, I'm still UTC+1. Sorry!

I haven't noticed the read-only time. Was it shorter than usual?

Send the message to communities

I skipped this part. Many colleagues questioned the relevance of the MassMessage as we already used Tech News to inform communities. Messaging fatigue is real, some wikis only have old announcements at their community boards. Let's see how it goes without messaging.

Any deployment date scheduled?

In T414096#11738035, @Blake wrote:

@Trizek-WMF, what is the 'wmfall' messaging task referenced in the description? What that is and how to do it are not currently in the SRE documentation for the switchover. Thanks!

Thank you Blake.

In T414096#11698303, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

@STei-WMF, can I let you do all announcement in Tech News ? Thanks!

@Blake, can you tell me who will inform Movement Communication (in this case, me) of the advancement and success of the process? I need to know so that I can breathe. :p If the process goes longer, it is important to keep us informed so that we can reassure community members who'd ask for an update.

@STei-WMF, can I let you do all announcement in Tech News ? Thanks!