Growth/Release Timeline 2022

This page attempts to track notable changes on production and releases by the Growth team in 2022 calendar year. Detailed project updates can be found here. Feel free to jump in and add anything missing!

🎂 is used to mark releases the team feels are worth celebrating and usually mark the end of a long line of work.

Dates should reflect a date the change went into production and generally correspond with that week's deployment train.

Releases


Date	Title	Cake
2022.12.15	NewImpact: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'days')
2022.12.06	New Impact Module: Start experiment for the new Impact module on Growth Pilot wikis (ar, bn, cs, es)	🎂
2022.12.06	End imagerecommendation experiment
2022.12.01	UserImpact: Set up maintenance script to run in betalabs and production
2022.11.30	Evaluate AQS use of GrowthExperiments new impact dashboard
2022.11.21	Enable "Your unstarred mentees" at the biggest Growth wikis
2022.11.10	User impact API: Created maintenance script for refreshing data
2022.11.02	Ensure all newcomers receive Growth features (end the 20% control group)	🎂
2022.10.26	Add Link is deployed to 5th round of wikis	🎂
2022.10.26	Structured mentor list is deployed	🎂
2022.10.19	Turned off mentorship on all wikis where the community has not yet setup a mentorship list
2022.10.17	Release Vue edition of Mentee Overview module to all wikis	🎂
2022.09.21	Deployed structured mentor list	🎂
2022.09.20	Improved UX for newcomers who create an account while mid-edit	🎂
2022.09.19	Deployed "add an image" to el, pl, zh, id, ro Wikis	🎂
2022.09.15	Mentee overview: avoid requiring the non-Vue mentee overview script when loading the Vue one
2022.09.07	Prevented clicks on more recent edit buttons to submit the filters

2022

For October and newer, see the table above!

August

29th

Fixed a bug when invalid argument was supplied for foreach() at GlobalFunctions (from GrowthExperiments WelcomeSurveyHooks.php) (phab: T315583).
Fixed WelcomeSurvey CentralAuthPostLoginRedirect hook (phab: T316311).
Granted "enrollasmentor" right automatically according to community's specifications (phab: T314414).

18th

Fixed a bug when structured Add link task displayed "Page is protected, abandoning structured task" for non-protected pages (phab: T315516).

15th

Fixed a bug when post-login redirect hooks interfered with central login during signup (phab: T313064).

8th

Disabled MentorWeightManager from being used with structured mentor list (phab: T314362).

4th

Added instrumentation to Special:EditGrowthConfig (phab: T312148).

July

8th

Fixed an issue when deferred update 'MWCallableUpdate_GrowthExperiments\NewcomerTasks\TaskSetListener->run' failed to run (phab: T312544).

7th

Fixed an issue when we noticed a high frequency of "invalid source type" errors (phab: T312521).
🎂 Adapted GrowthExperiments to new Image Suggestions API (phab: T306032).

5th

Ended GrowthExperiments Welcome Email campaign (phab: T307985).
Fixed a bug when some article cards displayed a reduced image instead of the placeholder image (phab: T311789).

4th

Fixed a bug when several edits tagged as "Add an image" edits did not add any image (instead, they only added a blank line) (phab: T311916).

June

29th

Fixed a bug when 'Suggested' label had no paddling (phab: T311467).

27th

Deleted rows for growthexperiments-homepage-suggestededits-topics-enabled user property (phab: T308309).

23rd

🎂 'Add a link' was deployed to the 4th round of Wikis (phab: T304548).

13th

Fixed a bug when the quality gate limit was reached, the user could proceed to the article but would see a "No suggestions found" dialog (instead of seeing a quality gate-specific dialog on Special:Homepage) (phab: T309768).

9th

Fixed the suggested edits bug (phab: T309926).

May

26th

Deployed 'add a link' back-end code for the 4th round of Wikis (phab: T304548).

25th

[Regression] Fixed a bug when 'View image details' link was missing for 'Add an image' (phab: T309152).

23rd

Migrated growthexperiments-mentee-overview-filters to growthexperiments-mentee-overview-presets (phab: T304057).

16th

🎂 Launched five new landing pages that will be used for the upcoming fundraising campaigns in Latin America, India, South Africa (phab: T305659).
Remove ad-hoc code used for GLAM event campaigns (phab: T305443).
🎂 Created a template system so that new campaigns only require configuration to set up, with i18n handled via on-wiki system message overrides (phab: T307521).

12th

Released support of long section exclusion lists for link recommendations (phab: T308186).

11th

Fixed a bug for Hindi Wikipedia and Ukrainian Wikipedia where searching for hasrecommendation:link returned no results (phab: T304542).

10th

🎂 Welcome emails marketing campaign: Growth team turned on the opt-in check box for receiving emails (phab: T307844).

9th

🎂 Release of AND topic selection to pilot wikis task T305399

5th

Since initWikiConfig only works when deploying GrowthExperiments for the first time, and most wikis already have some Growth features, changeWikiConfig.php was updated to allow writing configuration sub-fields (phab: T306792).

April

28th

🎂Launched new landing pages required for a new Marketing social media campaign. The goal of the campaign it to recruit new editors for Spanish Wikipedia via social media marketing (phab: T303785).

19th

Deleted `growthexperiments-mentor-id` properties from user_properties table (phab: T304461).

6th

Welcome emails marketing campaign: Added a checkbox to the Special:WelcomeSurvey that would permit us to send a celebratory welcome email with some tips and tricks for new users. We believe that sending an email like this would, if expanded, improve the activation and retention rate of new user accounts (phab: T303240).
Welcome emails marketing campaign: Reserved a control group of users in the welcome emails experiment who will not receive emails. This will allow us to see whether sending the emails has an impact on key newcomer metrics, like activation, retention, and productivity (phab: T305015).

March

31st

🎂Added a toggle to enable AND selection of interest topics for the GLAM events campaign (phab: T301825).
Fixed a bug when the post-edit dialog was not shown for subsequent edits when the topic hasn't been selected (phab: T305057).

28th

Made special topics available for the GLAM events campaign (phab: T301029).

23rd

Created GrowthExperiment database tables for all new Wikipedias (phab: T304052).

21st

Reverted the disablement of Growth's image recommendation on ptwiki (phab: T304095).

17th

Disabled Growth image recommendation on ptwiki, because it was discovered that an abusefilter disallowed all add an image edits made by the newcomers (phab: T302828).

16th

In preparation for the upcoming marketing campaign, added a checkbox to the Special:WelcomeSurvey that would give us permission to send a celebratory welcome email with some tips and tricks for new users (phab: T303240).

15th

In an upcoming marketing campaign, we plan to have landing pages with embedded videos. This task covered the creation of a landing page with a placeholder video for a proof of concept (phab: T302738).

8th

Deployed 'Add an image' to pt, fa, fr, and tr Wikis (phab: T302828).

7th

🎂 Based on the successful RfC on English Wikipedia, we expanded the Growth features to 100% of new accounts with 10% also getting mentorship (phab: T302846).

February

24th

Fixed a bug when the additional confirmation dialog was shown when rejecting suggestion instead of allowing for a rejection to be submitted and showing the post-edit dialog (phab: T302463).

17th

🎂 Enabled Growth features for 100% of new accounts on most Wikipedias (phab: T301820).

16th

🎂 Deployed 'Add an image' to Spanish Wikipedia (phab: T301276).

9th

🎂 At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, mentors can now mark themselves as being away or quit, change their introduction or control the number of mentees they want to take care of (phab: T280307).

January

27th

🎂 Add an image desktop project: enabled controlled experiment for the Add an image (desktop) deployment (phab: T298122).

25th

🎂 Add an image desktop project: updated onboarding images for the desktop experience (phab: T298109).

18th

Deployed Growth features to pwn.wikipedia.org (phab: T298115).

10th

Created ability to deploy Mentor Dashboard module only on the pilot wikis (phab: T298792).

5th

Created a landing page for people who attended a special event organized by the Jordan Open Source Association and who were interested to create a new Wikipedia account to get help with editing (phab: T284740).
Fixed a bug where mentees assigned to particular mentors were visible in other mentors' recent changes list (phab: T298031).