Growth/Projects

The Growth team works on features helping newcomers to make their first steps on wiki. The team is also responsible for the maintenance of several features.

Core Growth projects

To see updates on these initiatives and the specific projects underneath them, see the Growth team updates page or sign up for our team's newsletter.

• Understanding first day (EditorJourney)
• Personalized first day
  • Welcome survey
  • Engagement emails (potential project)
  • Newcomer homepage
  • Newcomer tasks
  • Structured tasks
    • Add a link
    • Add an image
    • Copyedit
  • User profile (potential project)
  • Mentor dashboard
• Focus on help desk
  • Help panel
• Positive reinforcement
• Community configuration
• Newcomer Experience Projects

Most of these happen via the GrowthExperiments extension. A small part of the analytics work happened within the WikimediaEvents extension.

Maintenance responsibilities

The Growth team performs maintenance to the following features. New features and improvements aren't considered for these features.

• Edit Review Improvements
• Thanks
• Structured Discussions, formerly Flow, discussion and collaboration software. Now in production as opt-in for talk pages, help pages and village pump-style discussion forums, on select wikis. new requests are currently not applied.
• Notifications (Echo), a redesign of the notifications system in Wikipedia. It was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in November 2013.
• WikiLove, a tool designed to encourage community health and reduce "".
• MoodBar, a tool designed to encourage feedback from new users, with Feedback Dashboard supporting review by experienced members.

Past projects

The projects were unique improvements that are now are archived, or one-time tests that have been decommissioned.

For information about the Growth team that existed from 2013–2015, see Growth/Growth 2014.

For information about the predecessor to the Growth team, see Collaboration.

Past projects by various iterations of the team and volunteer developers:

• English Wikipedia Article for creation improvements
• Map Improvements 2018
• New Page Triage, redesigning the New Page Patrol experience.
• Article Feedback Tool, a tool designed to encourage readers to provide feedback on articles.