I'm part of the Movement Communications Specialists (Product & Tech). I talk with readers, editors, volunteer developers, and staff so that they can know each other, know what they do, what they expect, and what they hope for. I mostly work with the Growth team and the Editing team around new features that help newcomers to become long-term editors successfully.
User Details
- User Since
- May 25 2015, 2:42 PM (550 w, 4 d)
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- Available
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- Trizek (WMF) [ Global Accounts ]
Thu, Dec 11
Everything is ready on my side.
Wed, Dec 10
I contacted the user, which I consider as resolving the task.
All wikis have been reviewed. Some were missing sections, no matter if they were concerned by the populating script.
I'm checking all wikis, with or without excluded sections, as I found several missing sections on the "included" list as well. :)
Tue, Dec 9
Thu, Dec 4
@Urbanecm_WMF lease let me know when it is ready so that I can manually populate the wikis.
Wed, Dec 3
Keeping this task open we hve the second round of wikis to cover. The process is documented in T410469: Add a Link: Rollout "Add a Link" task to remaining Wikipedias that have V2 model support but don't yet have access to "Add a Link".
Cool, thanks. I'll work on this tomorrow.
A few more details and sources. :)
A number of editors think their mentor is a bot or AI.
The English Wikipedia 2025 Successful Newcomers Survey, which is not yet public, highlighted this, among with other interesting elements.
Tue, Dec 2
Mon, Dec 1
We finished this evaluation, with all languages listed participating (except one).
Thu, Nov 27
Wed, Nov 26
Do we have a list of the messages that have been changed? IF so, can we list them in the task description, so that translators can have a look at them? Thanks!
I added this task to the next Tech News issue as a FYI.
Tue, Nov 25
We deployed the feature without following what is described in this task. Communities have been made aware of the project through other opportunities (in-person meetings, conferences, Diff post...).
As only T285235: Provide a Growth mentor for 100% of new accounts at Spanish Wikipedia remains open, I consider this task as closed.
Stepping back as an assignee as @STei-WMF currently covers the removal of LiquidThreads from the wikis, which pauses the current work on Flow.
Done.
Tue, Nov 18
For Monday Nov 24 issue:
Add a link will be deployed to Chinese, Japanese, & Urdu Wikipedia on December 2,using a new model for links suggestions. This is the first time these communities will have access to Add a link. These communities have been contacted, in order to configure this feature through Community Configuration.
Thu, Nov 13
We will remove the 10% test part as:
- It won't show many edits to have a proper test
- We don't have the infrastructure to do it anymore.
Community configuration keeps the possibility of changing some thresholds if needed.
Nov 12 2025
Nov 10 2025
I postponed Russian WIkipedia as I need one more week to publish the communication.
Nov 6 2025
Nov 5 2025
Nov 4 2025
Encouragement for a user's first edits (arguably the same as 'good content addition')
These encouragements are really important, as they help users keep going. They aren't proper Thanks, but actual feedback. Thanks could be more impactful than user talk messages.
Oct 30 2025
After a discussion with Özge, I updated the task description.
Oct 29 2025
We have several ways of considering (and reshuffling) the groups @OKarakaya-WMF defined in T404460#11200848.
Can we consider this ticket as resolved? The remaining wikis will be covered with T379264: Phase 5: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at remaining large wikis.
T290778 looks like a parent task, as it covers all experiences, while this one is about a specific interface (mentorship module at the Growth Homepage).
Oct 28 2025
Sorry, I forgot to add it.
We should reconsider this as we are certainly losing a good number of possible mentor/mentee interactions there.
Definitely a duplicate of T272146: Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered.
Ha, I missed it when searching for an existing task.
Oct 22 2025
Oct 21 2025
Completing my previous comment, as I chatted with @AAlhazwani-WMF about this topic.
Special pages talk pages don't exist, right? It is a tricky topic, as it could open other cases. We need to think about it carefully.
Oct 20 2025
Thank you Kirsten. So far, I only heard about this at English Wikipedia.