ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ:Jagseer S Sidhu
ਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ Jagseer S Sidhu ਜੀ! ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ’ਤੇ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਸੁਆਗਤ ਹੈ। ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਲਈ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ। ਉਮੀਦ ਹੈ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਪਸੰਦ ਆਇਆ ਹੋਵੇਗਾ। ਮਿਹਰਬਾਨੀ ਕਰਕੇ ਲੇਖ ਲਿਖਣ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਦਾ ਬੁਨਿਆਦੀ ਅਸੂਲ ਨਿਰਪੱਖ ਨਜ਼ਰੀਆ ਜ਼ਰੂਰ ਪੜ੍ਹਨਾ। | |
ਇਹ ਕੁਝ ਕੜੀਆਂ ਹਨ ਜੋ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਲਈ ਮਦਦਗਾਰ ਸਾਬਤ ਹੋਣਗੀਆਂ: |
ਆਪਣੇ ਜਾਂ ਕਿਸੇ ਵੀ ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ ਸਫ਼ੇ ’ਤੇ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ ਜਾਂ ਸੁਨੇਹਾ ਛੱਡਦੇ ਵਕਤ ਉਸਦੇ ਅਖ਼ੀਰ ’ਤੇ ਚਾਰ ~~~~ ਲਾਓ ਜੋ ਆਪਣੇ-ਆਪ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਦਸਤਖ਼ਤ ਅਤੇ ਵਕਤ ਵਿਚ ਤਬਦੀਲ ਹੋ ਜਾਣਗੀਆਂ। ਕਿਸੇ ਹੋਰ ਮਦਦ ਲਈ ਆਪਣੇ ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ ਸਫ਼ੇ ’ਤੇ ਅਪਣੇ ਸਵਾਲ ਜਾਂ ਮੁਸ਼ਕਲ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ {{ਮਦਦ}} ਵਰਤੋ; ਕੋਈ ਤਜਰਬੇਕਾਰ ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ ਤੁਹਾਡੀ ਮਦਦ ਕਰੇਗਾ। |
-- New user message (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 12:41, 5 ਜੂਨ 2017 (UTC)
ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹੋਣ ਲਈ ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਵੀਰ ਜੀ,
ਬਹੁਤ ਖੁਸ਼ੀ ਹੋਈ ਕਿ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹੋ ਗਏ ਹੋ। ਕੋਈ ਵੀ ਮਦਦ ਚਾਹੀਦੀ ਹੋਵੇ ਤਾਂ ਮੇਰੇ ਨਾਲ ਗੱਲ ਕਰਦੇ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ। ਇੱਕ ਗੱਲ ਹੋਰ, ਮੇਰੇ ਨਾਨਕੇ ਨਿਹਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਾਲਾ ਨੇ :)
--Satdeep Gill (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 09:06, 12 ਮਈ 2018 (UTC)
ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਲੇਖ ਲਿਖਣ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਲਈ ਬਾਰਨਸਟਾਰ
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar A new editor on the right path | ||
ਤੁਸੀਂ ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਲੇਖ ਲਿਖਣ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਵਿੱਚ 38 ਲੇਖ ਬਣਾਏ ਹਨ ਅਤੇ ਇਹ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਦੇ ਜਿੱਤਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਦਦਗਾਰ ਰਹੇ। ਆਪਾਂ ਇਹ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ ਜਿੱਤ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਦਰਜਾਬੰਦੀ ਵਿੱਚ 8ਵੇਂ ਸਥਾਨ 'ਤੇ ਆਏ ਹੋ। ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਨੂੰ ਏਨਾ ਸਮਾਂ ਦੇਣ ਲਈ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਬਹੁਤ-ਬਹੁਤ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ। ਉਮੀਦ ਹੈ ਭਵਿੱਖ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੀ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਪਾਉਂਦੇ ਰਹੋਗੇ - Satpal Dandiwal (talk) |Contribs) 04:52, 1 ਜੂਨ 2018 (UTC) |
ਸੂਰਮਾ
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi, thanks for creating the article ਸੂਰਮਾ (ਫ਼ਿਲਮ),. Excellent movie, I must say. Can you please add a brief plot section to the article kindly? Let me know if you want me to expand the English article plot first. Regards. --Titodutta (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 20:39, 18 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2018 (UTC)
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਮੈਂ ਮੂਲ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਦਾ ਸੰਪਾਦਨ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ, ਪਰ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਾਡੀ ਮਾਂ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਹੈ. ਇਸ ਲਈ ਇੱਥੇ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਦੇ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਲਈ ਇੱਥੇ ਆਇਆ ਹਾਂ(Mr.Mani Raj Paul (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 11:46, 12 ਨਵੰਬਰ 2018 (UTC))
ਗੁੱਡ ਆਰਟੀਕਲ ਟੀਮ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਾਮਿਲ ਹੋਣ ਦਾ ਸੱਦਾ ।
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਪੜ੍ਹੇ ਜਾ ਰਹੇ ਇਹਨਾਂ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੁਧਾਰ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਪਾਓ ਜੀ। [ਆਰਟੀਕਲ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਚੁਣੇ ਗਏ ਲੇਖ ]
- ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ
- ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ
- ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
- ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ
- ਪੰਜਾਬ, ਭਾਰਤ
- ਹਰਿਮੰਦਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ
- ਕਰਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਾਭਾ
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸੱਭਿਆਚਾਰ
- ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ
Mulkh Singh (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 17:00, 20 ਜੂਨ 2019 (UTC)
ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਲਈ ਇੱਕ ਸਨਮਾਨ
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਲਗਾਤਾਰ ਸਰਗਰਮ ਬਾਰਨਸਟਾਰ | |
ਬਹੁਤ ਸਰਗਰਮੀ ਨਾਲ ਕੰਮ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਮੇਰੇ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਇਹ ਬਾਰਨਸਟਾਰ। ਉਮੀਦ ਹੈ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਇਸ ਲਹਿਰ ਨੂੰ ਹੋਰ ਅੱਗੇ ਲੈਕੇ ਜਾਓਂਗੇ। -- Satdeep Gill (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 17:19, 7 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2019 (UTC) |
Project Tiger 2.0
[ਸੋਧੋ]Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
Hello,
We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To know about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page
Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components
- Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with internet support for 6 months and providing Chromebooks. Application is open from 25th August 2019 to 14 September 2019. To know more please visit
- Article writing contest - A 3-month article writing contest will be conducted for Indian Wikimedians communities. Following community feedback, we noted some community members wanted the process of article list generation to be improved. In this iteration, there will be at least two lists of articles
- Google-generated list,
- Community suggested list. Google generated list will be given to the community members before finalising the final list. On the other hand, the community may create a list by discussing among the community over Village pump, Mailing list and similar discussion channels.
Thanks for your attention,
Ananth (CIS-A2K) (talk)
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 11:41, 21 ਅਗਸਤ 2019 (UTC)
Community Insights Survey
[ਸੋਧੋ]Share your experience in this survey
Hi Jagseer S Sidhu,
The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey about your experience with ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ and Wikimedia. The purpose of this survey is to learn how well the Foundation is supporting your work on wiki and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages.
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Sincerely,
RMaung (WMF) 15:55, 9 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
Reminder: Community Insights Survey
[ਸੋਧੋ]Share your experience in this survey
Hi Jagseer S Sidhu,
A couple of weeks ago, we invited you to take the Community Insights Survey. It is the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual survey of our global communities. We want to learn how well we support your work on wiki. We are 10% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! Your voice matters to us.
Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages.
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Sincerely,
RMaung (WMF) 19:35, 20 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
ਡਾ. ਨਵਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਵੀਰ ਜੀ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਿ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਜਾਣਦੇ ਹੋ ਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਡਾ. ਨਵਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੂੰ ਹਟਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਟੈਗ ਕੀਤਾ ਸੀ ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਠੁਕਰਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਸੋ ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਤੁਸੀ ਇਸਦਾ ਕਾਰਨ ਦਸ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ? ਮੈਂ ਗੂਗਲ ਤੇ ਸਰੋਤ ਲੱਭਣ ਦੀ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕੀਤੀ ਪਰ ਮੇਨੁੰ ਅਜਿਹਾ ਕੁਛ ਵੀ ਨਜ਼ਰ ਨਹੀ ਆ ਰਿਹਾ ਜੋ ਡਾ. ਸਿੰਘ ਨੁੰ ਨੋਟਬਲ ਬਣਾਏ. ਧੰਨਵਾਦ GSS (talk|c|em) 10:08, 3 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
- @GSS: ਸਤਿ ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਵੀਰ ਜੀ। ਜੇਕਰ ਕਿਸੇੇ ਪੇਜ ਲਈ ਕੋਈ ਹਵਾਲਾ ਗੂਗਲ ਜਾਂ ਆਨਲਾਈਨ ਸਾਧਨਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਮਿਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਤਾਂ ਆਪਾਂ ਕੋਈ ਕਿਤਾਬ, ਅਖਬਾਰ ਜਾਂ ਮੈਗਜ਼ੀਨ ਤੋਂ ਲੱਭ ਸਕਦੇ ਜੇਕਰ ਫਿਰ ਵੀ ਕੋਈ ਸਰੋਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਮਿਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਤਾਂ ਮਿਟਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਨਾਮਜ਼ਦ ਕਰ ਦੇਵਾਂਗੇ। ਅਜਿਹਿਆਂ ਸਫ਼ਿਆਂ ਲਈ ਆਪਣੇ ਕੋਲ {{ਬੇ-ਹਵਾਲਾ}} ਟੈਗ ਹੈ, ਜੋ ਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਲਗਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ। ਧੰਨਵਾਦ Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 01:39, 4 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
Reminder: Community Insights Survey
[ਸੋਧੋ]Share your experience in this survey
Hi Jagseer S Sidhu,
There are only a few weeks left to take the Community Insights Survey! We are 30% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! With this poll, the Wikimedia Foundation gathers feedback on how well we support your work on wiki. It only takes 15-25 minutes to complete, and it has a direct impact on the support we provide.
Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages.
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Sincerely,
RMaung (WMF) 17:30, 4 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2020: IRC today
[ਸੋਧੋ]{{subst:WCI2020-IRC (Oct 2019)}} MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:27, 20 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2020: IRC today
[ਸੋਧੋ]Greetings, thanks for taking part in the initial conversation around the proposal for WikiConference India 2020 in Hyderabad. Firstly, we are happy to share the news that there has been a very good positive response from individual Wikimedians. Also there have been community-wide discussions on local Village Pumps on various languages. Several of these discussions have reached consensus, and supported the initiative. To conclude this initial conversation and formalise the consensus, an IRC is being hosted today evening. We can clear any concerns/doubts that we have during the IRC. Looking forward to your participation.
The details of the IRC are
- Timings and Date: 6:00 pm IST (12:30 pm UTC) on 20 August 2019
- Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/
- Channel: #wci
Note: Initially, all the users who have engaged on WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations page or its talk page were added to the WCI2020 notification list. Members of this list will receive regular updates regarding WCI2020. If you would like to opt-out or change the target page, please do so on this page.
This message is being sent again because template substitution failed on non-Meta-Wiki Wikis. Sorry for the inconvenience. MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:58, 20 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
Thank you and Happy Diwali
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Dear Brother @Titodutta: Thank you and Happy Diwali to you too. --Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 14:16, 27 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
[WikiConference India 2020] Invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey
[ਸੋਧੋ]This is an invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey, which is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event Grant application for WikiConference India 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly. Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs post-funding decision.
- Please fill the survey at; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7_hpoIKHxGW31RepX_y4QxVqoodsCFOKatMTzxsJ2Vbkd-Q/viewform
- The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:10, 12 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2019 (UTC)
[WikiConference India 2020] Conference & Event Grant proposal
[ਸੋਧੋ]WikiConference India 2020 team is happy to inform you that the Conference & Event Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2020 has been submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation. This is to notify community members that for the last two weeks we have opened the proposal for community review, according to the timeline, post notifying on Indian Wikimedia community mailing list. After receiving feedback from several community members, certain aspects of the proposal and the budget have been changed. However, community members can still continue engage on the talk page, for any suggestions/questions/comments. After going through the proposal + FAQs, if you feel contented, please endorse the proposal at WikiConference_India_2020#Endorsements, along with a rationale for endorsing this project. MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 18:21, 19 ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ 2020 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #13
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the thirteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Join the conversation: structured tasks
[ਸੋਧੋ]We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.
In our previous newsletter, we talked about the productive edits coming from the newcomer tasks feature. Those good results have continued: about 900 newcomers made over 5,000 suggested edits so far. We've learned that newcomers are interested in receiving suggested edits.
Now, we are thinking about how to supply them a feed of easy edits that will help more of them be successful quickly. We have a new idea called "structured tasks". This would aim to break down edits into steps that are easy for newcomers and easy on mobile devices.
In the past, certain kinds of editing tasks have been structured. For instance, adding categories through HotCat. Now, we are thinking about how to structure the editing of articles. The goal is to allow newcomers can make large content additions, especially from their mobile devices.
Please visit the project page and respond to the discussion questions listed on the talk page. You are welcome to show this project to others in your community. You can help by translating the materials to your language so that more voices can join in. We will be having this conversation until June 18.
Expanding to more wikis
[ਸੋਧੋ]We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.
In the last two months, we deployed Growth features to six new wikis: Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian, Armenian, and Basque Wikipedias, and French Wiktionary. Newcomers from these wikis have already contributed over 600 edits through Growth features.
We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Wikipedia already agreed and will be the next one to join the experiment. We will contact several other wikis in the coming weeks to offer them to participate.
Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see this translatable summary of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please contact us to begin the process!
Other updates
[ਸੋਧੋ]Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.
- In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new ORES models.
- In April, we completed an A/B test of two homepage configurations. We learned that more newcomers will attempt suggested edits if the module is made more prominent. We are implementing those learnings in our next test. See the full results here.
- We are currently working on guidance for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.
- Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.
As usual, we are still welcoming your feedback and questions about our features. Please contact us on the project talk page!
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14:30, 18 ਮਈ 2020 (UTC)
Assistance needed
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello, would you please check this page? I'm not quite sure but Google indicate it has some problems. Thank you. --Hamish (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:33, 21 ਮਈ 2020 (UTC)
- @Hamish: Yes there are some problem. I'll make the corrections.
Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello!
Thank you for your contribution in Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020. We appreciate your time and efforts in bridging gender gap on Wikipedia. Due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we will not be couriering the prizes in the form of mechanize in 2020 but instead offer a gratitude token in the form of online claimable gift coupon. Please fill this form by last at June 10 for claiming your prize for the contest.
Wiki Love and regards!
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team.
--MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 14:10, 31 ਮਈ 2020 (UTC)
ਆਉਣ ਵਾਲੀਆਂ ਖੋਜ ਗਤੀਵਿਧੀਆਂ ਵਿਚ ਹਿੱਸਾ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਨੂੰ ਬਿਹਤਰ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਵਿਚ ਸਾਡੀ ਸਹਾਇਤਾ ਕਰੋ
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਪਿਆਰੇ @Jagseer S Sidhu:,
ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਉੱਤੇ ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਨ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਪਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ,
ਆਉਣ ਵਾਲੀਆਂ ਖੋਜ ਗਤੀਵਿਧੀਆਂ ਵਿਚ ਭਾਗ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਨੂੰ ਬਿਹਤਰ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਵਿਚ ਸਾਡੀ ਮਦਦ ਕਰੋ। ਇਸ ਬਾਰੇ ਹੋਰ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਲਈ, ਕੁਝ ਛੋਟੇ-ਛੋਟੇ ਸਵਾਲਾਂ ਦੇ ਜਵਾਬ ਦਿਓ ਅਤੇ ਅਸੀਂ ਕੁਝ ਭਾਗੀਦਾਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਸੰਪਰਕ ਕਰਕੇ ਕੁਝ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਕੌਲਾਂ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਸਮਾਂ ਤਹਿ ਕਰਾਂਗੇ।
ਧੰਨਵਾਦ, BGerdemann (WMF) (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 21:25, 2 ਜੂਨ 2020 (UTC)
ਇਹ ਸਰਵੇ ਇੱਕ ਤੀਜੀ ਧਿਰ ਦੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ, ਇਸ ਲਈ ਕੁਝ ਸ਼ਰਤਾਂ ਲਾਗੂ ਹੋ ਸਕਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ। ਪ੍ਰਾਈਵੇਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਡੇਟਾ-ਸੰਭਾਲਣ ਬਾਰੇ ਵਧੇਰੇ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਲਈ, ਸਰਵੇਖਣ ਪ੍ਰਾਈਵੇਸੀ ਸਟੇਟਮੈਂਟ ਵੇਖੋ।
Project Tiger 2.0 - Feedback from writing contest participants (editors) and Hardware support recipients
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedians,
We hope this message finds you well.
We sincerely thank you for your participation in Project Tiger 2.0 and we want to inform you that almost all the processes such as prize distribution etc related to the contest have been completed now. As we indicated earlier, because of the ongoing pandemic, we were unsure and currently cannot conduct the on-ground community Project Tiger workshop.
We are at the last phase of this Project Tiger 2.0 and as a part of the online community consultation, we request you to spend some time to share your valuable feedback on the Project Tiger 2.0 writing contest feedback.
Please fill this form to share your feedback, suggestions or concerns so that we can improve the program further.
Note: If you want to answer any of the descriptive questions in your native language, please feel free to do so.
Thank you. Nitesh Gill (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 11:49, 12 ਜੂਨ 2020 (UTC)
REMINDER - Feedback from writing contest jury of Project Tiger 2.0
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedians,
We hope this message finds you well.
We sincerely thank you for your participation in Project Tiger 2.0 and we want to inform you that almost all the processes such as prize distribution etc related to the contest have been completed now. As we indicated earlier, because of the ongoing pandemic, we were unsure and currently cannot conduct the on-ground community Project Tiger workshop.
We are at the last phase of this Project Tiger 2.0 and as a part of the online community consultation, we request you to spend some time to share your valuable feedback on the article writing jury process.
Please fill this form to share your feedback, suggestions or concerns so that we can improve the program further.
Note: If you want to answer any of the descriptive questions in your native language, please feel free to do so.
Thank you. Nitesh Gill (talk) 06:24, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Women South Asia Barnstar Award
[ਸੋਧੋ]
Greetings! Thank you for contributing to the Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020. We are appreciative of your tireless efforts to create articles about Women in Folklore on Wikipedia. We are deeply inspired by your persistent efforts, dedication to bridge the gender and cultural gap on Wikipedia. Your tireless perseverance and love for the movement has brought us one step closer to our quest for attaining equity for underrepresented knowledge in our Wikimedia Projects. We are lucky to have amazing Wikimedians like you in our movement. Please find your Wiki Loves Women South Asia postcard here. Kindly obtain your postcards before 15th July 2020. Keep shining! Wiki Loves Women South Asia Team |
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 13:27, 5 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2020 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter 14
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the fourteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Success with guidance
[ਸੋਧੋ]We deployed the "Guidance" feature on June 15.
This feature uses the help panel to explain what to do after selecting a suggested edit. For instance, if a newcomer selects a copyedit task, they are guided on what sorts of errors to look for. They can see examples of how to rewrite the text. You can try this feature on test.wikipedia.org. First enable the homepage and the help panel in your preferences there.
Since we launched "Guidance", the data we collected show good results (see image). Now, we see more users completing suggested edits than before Guidance was deployed.
Structured tasks
[ਸੋਧੋ]Structured tasks is a project that aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps. We hope newcomers can accomplish these tasks easily.
In the previous newsletter, we asked for feedback from community members on the idea. We had a good discussion in six languages with 35 community members (summary here). We have now posted new design mockups. We hope community members can check the mockups out and react to them (in any language). They are posted along with some of the main questions we are thinking about as we continue to refine our plans.
Other technical updates
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We are currently working on Variants C and D (adjacent image) of the homepage. The goal is to increase the number of newcomers who start the newcomer tasks workflow. This is the team's main project at the moment.
- We've made it easier to hide the help panel when not needed. [1]
- The welcome survey has a new question for people who created their account: language skills. The goal is to find out how many newcomers know multiple languages, so that we can learn whether it is a good idea to integrate Content Translation as a newcomer task. To make room for this question, we removed one that is not being used. [2]
Community outreach
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We continue to engage with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth features to Persian, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias. Learn more about getting the features.
- If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team, please contact us! We have already participated to two community events online:
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09:33, 7 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2020 (UTC)
We sent you an e-mail
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello Jagseer S Sidhu,
Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email surveys@wikimedia.org.
You can see my explanation here.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 18:53, 25 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2020 (UTC)
Growth team updates #15
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the fifteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Variants C and D deployed
[ਸੋਧੋ]Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We hope they will increase the number of users using suggested edits. They both make suggested edits the clear place where newcomers should get started on the page. They have some differences in their workflows, because we want to test which design is better. We deployed these variants on October 19; half of newcomers get each variant. After about 5 weeks, we will analyze the data from the tests. The goal is to determine which variant is helping more newcomers to make more suggested edits. We will identify the better variant and then use it with all newcomers.
Structured tasks: add a link
[ਸੋਧੋ]As we discussed in previous newsletters, the team is working on our first "structured task": the "add a link" task. After community discussion on design ideas, we ran user tests on the mobile designs. We decided on the design concept we want to use moving forward: Concept A. We're now engineering the backend for this feature. Next, we will be running user tests for desktop designs.
Learn more about the findings.
Community news
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We recently deployed the Growth features to Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish Wikipedias. 18 wikis now have Growth features. Learn more about getting the features.
- Have you recently checked if all interface messages are translated for your language?
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10:10, 1 ਨਵੰਬਰ 2020 (UTC)
Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear editor,
Hope you are doing well. As you know, A2K conducted a mini edit-a-thon Mahatma Gandhi 2020 edit-a-thon on the 2nd or 3rd October to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's anniversary.
Now, CIS-A2K is going to conduct a 2-day-long Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon to celebrate Indian festivals. We request you in person, please contribute to this event too, enthusiastically. Let's make it successful and develop the content on our different Wikimedia projects regarding festivities. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 19:28, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Reminder: Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. This message is to remind you about "Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon", which is going to start from tonight (5 December) 00:01 am and will run till 6 December, 11:59 pm IST.
Please give some time and provide your support to this event and participate. You are the one who can make it successful! Happy editing! Thank You Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:53, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Growth team updates #16
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the sixteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Growth features show impact
[ਸੋਧੋ]Newcomer task experiments results
The team recently published our analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We are happy to announce that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers.
In November 2019, the Growth team added the "newcomer tasks" feature to the newcomer homepage. After six months, we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias. We analyzed the overall impact of the Growth features, including newcomer tasks.
This analysis finds that the Growth features lead to increases in:
- the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)
- the probability that they are retained as editors
- the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+22%)
We also find that the quality of their edits, as measured by revert rate, is comparable to that of a control group.
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The number of suggested edits completed by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020, with a line for the total.
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The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.
Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features. Learn more about how to get them.
You can find more details about this experiment on the report page. Please post any feedback or questions on the talk page
General metrics
As of November 2020, across all wikis where the features have been deployed:
- more than 5,000 newcomers have made more than 40,000 edits using Newcomer tasks.
- more than 14,000 questions have been sent to volunteer mentors by more than 11,000 users.
- more than 2,000 questions have been asked on help desks by more than 1,500 users.
Learn more about Growth results here, and please post any feedback or questions on the talk page.
Variants C and D
[ਸੋਧੋ]Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed them in October. After six weeks of these variants being deployed, we can see that they have led to increased interactions with newcomer tasks. Next, we will determine which variant is best and use that for all newcomers.
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]A separate list for workshops hosts
During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without having other newcomers being randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. Learn more about this feature.
Claiming multiple mentees at once
Mentors can use Special:ClaimMentee to claim a newcomer as their mentee. The feature now allows mentors to claim multiple newcomers at once.
Community news
[ਸੋਧੋ]The help panel allows people to post a message to the local help desk while editing. Previously, the tool always posted messages to the bottom of help desks. Wikis are now able to configure it to display new messages at the top of the help desk page. T261714
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14:22, 7 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2020 (UTC)
Token of appreciation: Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello, we would like to thank you for participating in Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon. Your contribution made the edit-a-thon fruitful and successful. Now, we are taking the next step and we are planning to send a token of appreciation to them who contributed to this event. Please fill the given Google form for providing your personal information as soon as possible. After getting the addresses we can proceed further.
Please find the form here. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 09:52, 14 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2020 (UTC)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #2
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello,
The second edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have started a logistics assessment. The objective of the survey is to collect relevant information about the logistics of the Indian Wikimedia community members who are willing to participate in the event. Please spend a few minutes to fill this form.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. --MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 01:40, 17 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2020 (UTC)
Submission Open for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021
[ਸੋਧੋ]Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
Hello,
We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24 January 2021.
You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2021. Details about the team will come soon.
We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best of luck for your submissions!
Regards,
Jayanta
On behalf of WMWM India 2021
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello,
Happy New Year! The third edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened proposals for session submissions. If you want to conduct a session during the event, you can propose it here before 24 Jamuary 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. -- MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:56, 1 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Reminder: Wikipedia 20th celebration "the way I & my family feels"
[ਸੋਧੋ]Greetings,
A very Happy New Year 2021. As you know this year we are going to celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday on 15th January 2021, to start the celebration, I like to invite you to participate in the event titled "Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my family feels"
The event will be conducted from 1st January 2021 till 15th January and another one from 15th January to 14th February 2021 in two segments, details on the event page.
Please have a look at the event page: '"Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my family feels"
Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, "the way I and my family feels".
If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to share the news and ask others to participate.
ਟਰਾਲੀ ਟਾਈਮਜ਼ ਤੇ Trolley Times
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਸਿਰਲੇਖ ਦੇ ਦੋਨਾਂ ਸਫਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਮਿਲਿਤ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਇੱਕ ਸਫ਼ਾ ਟਰਾਲੀ ਟਾਈਮਜ਼ ਕਰ ਦੇਵੋ।--Guglani (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 11:53, 2 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
- @Guglani: ਜੀ, ਸਤਦੀਪ ਗਿੱਲ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। --[[ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ:Jagseer S Sidhu|Jagseer S Sidhu]
(uਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 12:18, 2 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
- @Jagseer S Sidhu ਜੀ , ਧੰਨਵਾਦ। --Guglani (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 13:10, 2 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia 20th anniversary celebration edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear editor,
I hope this message finds you well. Wikipedia 20th anniversary celebration edit-a-thon is going to start from tomorrow. This is a gentle reminder. Please take part. Happy editing. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 18:03, 8 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello,
Happy New Year! The fourth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 16:12, 17 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Problem with #REDIRECT button
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi, When i clicked redirect icon on the toolbar, it gives
#ਰੀਡਿਰੈਕਟ,#REDIRECT [[]]
. This should be #REDIRECT [[]]
or #ਰੀਡਿਰੈਕਟ [[]]
. I think there is a problem with this button on this wiki. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 22:43, 28 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
- Happening with all wikis. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 16:17, 29 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
- @আফতাবুজ্জামান: Thanks for letting me know. Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 02:42, 30 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 17:49, 3 ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 17:53, 3 ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ 2021 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #17
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the seventeenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Structured tasks
[ਸੋਧੋ]Add a link: the team is continuing to engineer on our first "structured task", which will break down the workflow of adding wikilinks to articles, and assist newcomers with an algorithm to identify words and phrases that could be made into links.
Add an image: even as we build our first structured task, we have been thinking about the next one. "Add an image" is a structured task in which newcomers would be recommended images from Wikimedia Commons to add to unillustrated articles. This is an ambitious idea with many details to consider. We have already learned a lot from community members, and we encourage everyone to look at the project page and join the discussion.
Moving forward: more wikis to get the features
[ਸੋਧੋ]Last November, our team published the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers. Because of these results, we believe all Wikipedias should implement these features.
We have started to contact more wikis to deploy the features, including Wikipedias of all sizes. Bengali Wikipedia recently began using Growth features, and Danish, Thai, Indonesian, and Romanian Wikipedias will be coming soon. Please contact us if you have questions regarding deployment.
We are looking for translators who can help by translating the interface. Translating is done on Translatewiki.net (it requires a different account that your Wikimedia one). Communities that already have the Growth features being deployed are invited to check on the translations. Access translations here.
Variant testing
[ਸੋਧੋ]As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we ran a test of two variants of the newcomer homepage, meant to find a version that increases users completing suggested edits. We have completed the experiment, and learned that one of the variants leads to more edits on desktop while the other leads to more edits on mobile. Therefore, we will deploy the strongest variants for each platform to all newcomers.
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]Mentor dashboard: we have interviewed mentors from several communities as we plan a mentor dashboard feature, which would help mentors track the progress of their mentees. We encourage all mentors to share their thoughts on tools that would help them.
Magic word for mentors: it is now possible to use a magic word, {{#mentor}}
, to display the name of a given newcomer's mentor. This can be used on welcome messages, userboxes, etc.
Help panel questions going to mentors: in most wikis, newcomers using the help panel ask questions to the help desk. On Czech Wikipedia, we have experimented with sending these questions to mentors instead. This simplifies the newcomer experience, and only led to a increase in mentorship questions of about 30%. We tried this in Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedias, and we are making it the default experience.
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16:03, 3 ਮਾਰਚ 2021 (UTC)
Files
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi! I do not know if you noticed but I talked to Satdeep about files (on ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ_ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ:Satdeep_Gill#ਤਸਵੀਰ:Pawiki_upload.png). But all files on pawiki should have information about copyright. I noticed that you just uploaded ਤਸਵੀਰ:Interstellar film poster.jpg. My settings are English so I do not know how it looks for local users. But the best is to make it easy for uploaders to add the relevant information and the relevant copyright tag. That should reduce the number of files uploaded with missing information etc. Do you know if there are any local users that can help set up the relevant pages? Old files should also be fixed. I can try to help with my bot but I can't find a page WP:BOT that tells me how to request a bot flag. Do you know where to do so? If there is a local user that can fix it instead that would be even better. --MGA73 (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 12:55, 16 ਮਈ 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, @MGA73: I uplaoded ਤਸਵੀਰ:Interstellar film poster.jpg photo using WikiFile Transfer tool. I don't use upload wizard but if you want any kind of support in adding information, I am here. --Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 09:08, 19 ਮਈ 2021 (UTC)
- Hi! Actually it is the uploader that should add the information. All files without copyright information should be fixed or deleted. And my guess is that it is about 950 files.
- I do not know what the best way to fix it is but we need some local users to help set up some templates and categories. I do not speak the language and Google Translate does not always give usable translations.
- But I think mirroring enwiki is a good way. Except there is no need to copy all the templates and categories. So just the most used/relevant stuff.
- If copyright is not something you know much about perhaps you know a local user that would be good to contact? --MGA73 (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 10:32, 19 ਮਈ 2021 (UTC)
Growth Newsletter #18
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Structured tasks
[ਸੋਧੋ]"Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We are currently working on a Mentor dashboard. This special page aims to help mentors be more proactive and be more successful at their role. The first iteration will include a table that shows an overview of the mentors current mentees, a module with their own settings, and a module that will allow them to store their best replies to their mentees questions.
- We've conducted our quarterly audit on Growth's four pilot wikis to see the activity of mentors. It appears that the vast majority of mentors are active.
Community configuration
[ਸੋਧੋ]We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.
Scaling
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Growth features are now available on 35 wikis. Here is the list of the most recent ones: Romanian Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, ਹਿੰਦੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, ਜਪਾਨੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ, Telugu Wikipedia, ਸਪੇਨੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ, Simple English Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia.
- A new group of Wikipedias has been defined for the deployment of Growth features. Please contact us if you have questions about the deployment process, or if your community likes to get the features in advance.
- After discussion with the English Wikipedia community, the Growth features will be tested on a small percentage of new accounts. At the moment, registered users can test the features by turning them on in their preferences.
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15:23, 17 ਮਈ 2021 (UTC)
Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021
[ਸੋਧੋ]Greetings, Admins of the emerging community,
I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 10/11 July, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.
Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 15:14, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Feedback for Mini edit-a-thons
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Hope everything is fine around you. If you remember that A2K organised a series of edit-a-thons last year and this year. These were only two days long edit-a-thons with different themes. Also, the working area or Wiki project was not restricted. Now, it's time to grab your feedback or opinions on this idea for further work. I would like to request you that please spend a few minutes filling this form out. You can find the form link here. You can fill the form by 31 August because your feedback is precious for us. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 18:58, 16 ਅਗਸਤ 2021 (UTC)
Invitation for Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
[ਸੋਧੋ]Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
September 1 - September 30, 2021view details!
Wiki Loves Women South Asia is back with the 2021 edition. Join us to minify gender gaps and enrich Wikipedia with more diversity. Happening from 1 September - 30 September, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on gender gap theme. This year we will focus on women's empowerment and gender discrimination related topics.
We are proud to announce and invite you and your community to participate in the competition. You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.
Best wishes,
Wiki Loves Women Team HirokBot (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 21:53, 18 ਅਗਸਤ 2021 (UTC)
ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਬੁਣੀਆਦ ੨੦੨੧ ਬੋਰਡ ਆਫ ਟਰੱਸਟੀ ਚੌਣਾਂ ਚ ਵੋਟ ਪਾਉਣ ਦਾ ਯਾਦ ਰੱਖਣਾ।
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਡਿਅਰ Jagseer S Sidhu,
ਤੁਸੀ ਇਹ ਈਮੇਲ ਇਸਲਈ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰ ਰਹੇ ਹੋ ਕਿਓ ਕਿ ਤੁਸੀ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਬੁਣੀਆਦ ੨੦੨੧ ਬੋਰਡ ਆਫ਼ ਟਰਸਟੀ ਚੌਣਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੋਟ ਪੌਣ ਦੇ ਯੋਗ ਹੋ | ਚੋਣਾਂ ੧੮ ਅਗਸਤ, ੨੦੨੧ ਨੂੰ ਖੁੱਲੀਆਂ ਅਤੇ ੩੧ ਅਗਸਤ, ੨੦੨੧ ਨੂੰ ਬੰਦ ਹੋਣ ਗਿਆਂ | ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਬੁਣੀਆਦ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਵਰਗੇ ਪਰੋਜੈਕਟਾਂ ਦਾ ਸੰਚਾਲਨ ਕਰਦੀ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਇਸ ਦੀ ਅਗਵਾਈ ਇੱਕ ਟਰਸਟੀ ਬੋਰਡ ਵਲੋ ਕਿਤੀ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ|ਬੋਰਡ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਬੁਣੀਆਦ ਦਾ ਫੈਂਸਲਾ ਲੈਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਸੰਸਥਾ ਹੈ | ਬੋਰਡ ਆਫ ਟਰਸਟੀ ਬਾਰੇ ਹੋਰ ਜਾਣੋ |
ਇਸ ਸਾਲ ਚਾਰ ਸੀਟਾਂ ਦੀ ਚੋਣ ਕਮਿਓਨਟੀ ਵਲੋ ਕਿਤੀ ਜਾਨੀ ਹੈ | ਦੁਨੀਆ ਭਰ ਦੇ ੧੯ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰ ਇਨਾਂ ਸੀਟਾਂ ਲਈ ਚੋਣ ਲੜ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ | ੨੦੨੧ ਦੇ ਬੋਰਡ ਟਰਸਟੀ ਦੇ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰਾਂ ਬਾਰੇ ਹੋਰ ਜਾਣੋ |
ਲਗਭਗ ੭੦.੦੦੦ ਕਮਿਉਨਟੀ ਦੇ ਮੈਬਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਚੋਣ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਕਿਹਾ ਹੈ | ਜੋ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ ! ਚੋਣਾਂ ੨੩.੫੯ ਯੂਟੀਸੀ ੩੧ ਆਗਸਤ ਤੱਕ ਹੀ ਨੇ |
ਜੇ ਤੁਸੀ ਪਹਿਲਾ ਵੋਟ ਕਰ ਚੁੱਕੇ ਹੋ, ਤਾਂ ਵੋਟ ਪਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਅਤੇ ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਇਸ ਮੇਲ ਨੂੰ ਨਜ਼ਰ ਅੰਦਾਜ਼ ਕਰੋ | ਲੋਕ ਸਿਰਫ਼ ਇੱਕ ਵਾਰ ਵੋਟ ਪਾ ਸਕਦੇ ਹਨ ਚਾਹੇ ਉਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਕਿੰਨੇ ਵੀ ਖਾਤੇ ਹੋਨ |
ਇਸ ਚੋਣਾਂ ਦੀ ਹੋਰ ਜਾਨਕਾਰੀ ਲਈ ਪੜੋ| MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 06:37, 28 ਅਗਸਤ 2021 (UTC)
Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Hope you are doing well. Glad to inform you that A2K is going to conduct a mini edit-a-thon to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. It is the second iteration of Mahatma Gandhi mini edit-a-thon. The edit-a-thon will be on the same dates 2nd and 3rd October (Weekend). During the last iteration, we had created or developed or uploaded content related to Mahatma Gandhi. This time, we will create or develop content about Mahatma Gandhi and any article directly related to the Indian Independence movement. The list of articles is given on the event page. Feel free to add more relevant articles to the list. The event is not restricted to any single Wikimedia project. For more information, you can visit the event page and if you have any questions or doubts email me at nitesh@cis-india.org. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 17:33, 28 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2021 (UTC)
Growth Newsletter #19
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Structured tasks
[ਸੋਧੋ]- "Add a link" is the team's first structured task. It uses machine-learning to suggest wikilinks as easy edits for newcomers. It was deployed in May 2021 on four Wikipedias and then in July on eight more Wikipedias after we evaluated the initial results. So far, we've seen a high level of engagement from newcomers. Communities that have the feature suggested valuable ideas for improvement. We'll work on improvements and then contact more communities to deploy it.
- "Add an image" is the team's second structured task, currently in development. It is an editing task that suggests Commons images for unillustrated Wikipedia articles. We have conducted many community discussions and tests. Then, we've decided to build a first prototype. We'll first deploy it only to our pilot Wikipedias, to learn whether newcomers can be successful with the task. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. These prototypes have already been tested by newcomers, in English and Spanish.
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]- The Mentor dashboard is available at our pilot wikis: Arabic, Czech, and Bengali Wikipedias. It will soon be available at a few more volunteering wikis, as a test. [3]
- At wikis where the mentor dashboard is deployed, a new filter is available for mentors. Mentors can monitor their mentees' activity in Watchlist and RecentChanges, so they can help support their mentees' work. For privacy reasons, this filter can't be accessed by someone else than the mentor itself. This filter only filters mentees assigned to the mentor. This filter is not visible for people who are not listed as mentors [4]
Community configuration
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Communities now have the ability to configure how Growth features behave on their own wikis. At Special:EditGrowthConfig, community members can add a list of volunteer mentors, alter the templates used for suggested edits, update help links, and more. This special page is editable by administrators and interface admins.
Scaling
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We are proud to announce that all Wikipedias now have the Growth features! Thank you to all the community members who helped the team build the features and bring them to their wikis. The only exception is Chinese Wikipedia (zh), for technical reasons. [5]
- The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 280 of the smallest of those Wikipedias have the features. [6][7]
- A test is undergoing at English Wikipedia: 25% of newcomers receive the Growth features. The results from this test will be part of a discussion of how to proceed on that wiki.
- Now that Growth features are available at Wikipedia, the Growth team considers to extend them to other projects. Some Wikisource users have expressed some interest in getting Growth features. There is currently a discussion about implementing them on Wikisource.
News for communities
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work.
- The Growth features were recently used in a test amongst Latin American donors to give donors the opportunity to learn to edit. You can see the results here.
- Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
- Help:GettingStarted was a feature developed in 2013, which directed newcomers to articles that needed editing. We recently removed this feature from all wikis, because it has been replaced by the Growth features.
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18:36, 26 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2021 (UTC)
First Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
We are glad to inform you that the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India is going to be organised in February. This is an upcoming online wiki event that is to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 to celebrate International Mother Language Day. The planning of the event has already started and there are many opportunities for Wikimedians to volunteer in order to help make it a successful event. The major announcement is that submissions for sessions has opened from yesterday until a month (until 23 January 2022). You can propose your session here. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the first newsletter
If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 14:36, 24 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2021 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
How we will see unregistered users
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.
We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you. /Johan (WMF)
18:18, 4 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2022 (UTC)
Second Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well and safe. It's time to update you regarding Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India which is going to be conducted in February. Please note the dates 18 to 20 February 2022 of the event. The submissions has opened from 23 December until 23 January 2022. You can propose your session here. We want a few proposals from Indian communities or Wikimedians. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the second newsletter
If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:44, 8 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Second Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well and safe. It's time to update you regarding Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India which is going to be conducted in February. Please note the dates 18 to 20 February 2022 of the event. The submissions has opened from 23 December until 23 January 2022. You can propose your session here. We want a few proposals from Indian communities or Wikimedians. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the second newsletter
If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 06:04, 8 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
CIS-A2K announced International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 19 & 20 February 2022. The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate International Mother Language Day.
This time we will celebrate the day by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some language-related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about languages or related to languages. Anyone can participate in this event and editors can add their names here. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 13:13, 15 ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. Glad to inform you that to celebrate the month of March, A2K is to be conducting a mini edit-a-thon, International Women Month 2022 edit-a-thon. The dates are for the event is 19 March and 20 March 2022. It will be a two-day long edit-a-thon, just like the previous mini edit-a-thons. The edits are not restricted to any specific project. We will provide a list of articles to editors which will be suggested by the Art+Feminism team. If users want to add their own list, they are most welcome. Visit the given link of the event page and add your name and language project. If you have any questions or doubts please write on event discussion page or email at nitesh@cis-india.org. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 12:53, 14 ਮਾਰਚ 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Growth Newsletter #20
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Suggested edits
[ਸੋਧੋ]As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.
Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.
Add an image is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.
"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.
Positive reinforcement
[ਸੋਧੋ]Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:
- Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
- Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
- Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.
This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit the talk page to help guide the project!
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]- The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.
- The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors.
- We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.
- Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.
- We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up.
Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it to Wikidata!
Scaling
[ਸੋਧੋ]Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features (except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you, we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki.
How to help
[ਸੋਧੋ]Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.
Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
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17:12, 16 ਮਾਰਚ 2022 (UTC)
ਸੁਸੋਭਨ ਸੋਨੂੰ ਰਾਏ
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Admin, please delete ਸੁਸੋਭਨ ਸੋਨੂੰ ਰਾਏ as its a cross-wiki abuse attempt of recreating w:Susovan (Artist) by a CU confirmed LTA w:Blogs19. See w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blogs19 for details. 2409:4061:513:BC32:BDCE:9DBF:48B7:C227 14:16, 20 ਮਾਰਚ 2022 (UTC)
June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear User,
CIS-A2K is announcing June month mini edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 25 & 26 June 2022 (on this weekend). The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate June Month which is also known as pride month.
This time we will celebrate the month, which is full of notable days, by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource if there are any, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some June month related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about the month of June or related to its days, directly or indirectly. Anyone can participate in this event and the link you can find here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Growth team newsletter #21
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-first newsletter from the Growth team!
New project: Positive reinforcement
[ਸੋਧੋ]- The Growth team started a new project: Positive reinforcement. We want newcomers to understand there is an interest in regularly editing Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.
- We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Wikipedia about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well.
- We summarized the initial feedback gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback.
- The first Positive Reinforcement idea is a redesign of the impact module: incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information. This idea received the widest support, and we plan to start our work based on the design illustrated on the side.
- Please let us know what you think of this project, in any language.
For mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We have worked on two new features, to inform them about the mentorship:
Scaling
[ਸੋਧੋ]- "Add a link" available at more wikis ― Add a link feature has been deployed to more wikis: Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure locally how this feature works.
- "Add an image" available at more wikis ― Add an image feature will be deployed to more wikis: Greek Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. These communities will be able to configure locally how this feature works. [8]
Suggested edits
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Selecting topics ― We have created an "AND" filter to the list of topics at Special:Homepage. This way, newcomers can decide to select very specific topics ("Transportation" AND "Asia") or to have a broader selection ("Transportation" OR "Asia"). At the moment this feature is tested at pilot wikis.
- Changes for Add a link ― We have built several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.
- Algorithm improvements ― The algorithm now avoids recommending links in sections that usually don't have links and for first names. Also, it now limits each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article).
- User experience improvements ― We added a confirmation dialog when a user exits out of suggestion mode prior to making changes. We also improved post-edit dialog experience and allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog.
- Community configuration ― We allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig.
- Future change for Add a link feature ― We will suggest underlinked articles in priority. [9]
- Patrolling suggested edits ― Some users at Arabic Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia told us that "Add a link" and "Add an image" edits can be challenging to patrol. We are now brainstorming improvements to help address this challenge. We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language.
Community configuration
[ਸੋਧੋ]Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.
- Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily. [10]
- Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. [11]
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13:03, 5 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2022 (UTC)
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[ਸੋਧੋ]ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ 'ਰੁਕਨ ਉੱਦੀਨ ਫ਼ਿਰੋਜ਼ ਸ਼ਾਹ' ਸਫ਼ੇ ਨੂੰ 'ਰੁਕਨ-ਉਦ-ਦੀਨ ਫਿਰੋਜ਼ਸ਼ਾਹ' ਸਫ਼ੇ ਤੇ redirect ਕਰਦੋ। Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 04:21, 16 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- @Kuldeepburjbhalaike: ਜੀ, ਰੁਕਨ-ਉਦ-ਦੀਨ ਫਿਰੋਜ਼ਸ਼ਾਹ ਸਫ਼ਾ ਮੌਜੂਦ ਹੋਣ ਕਰਕੇ "ਰੁਕਨ ਉੱਦੀਨ ਫ਼ਿਰੋਜ਼ ਸ਼ਾਹ" ਨੂੰ ਮਿਟਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਧਿਆਨ ਦਵਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ। --Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:36, 17 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
ਬਹੁਤ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ। Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 11:46, 17 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
ਸਫ਼ੇ ਹਟਾਉਣ ਸਬੰਧੀ
[ਸੋਧੋ]'ਮੁਗ਼ਲ ਸਲਤਨਤ' ਸਫ਼ੇ ਨੂੰ ਹਟਾਇਆ ਜਾਵੇ ਕਿਉਂਕਿ 'ਮੁਗਲ ਸਲਤਨਤ' ਸਫ਼ਾ ਮੌਜੂਦ ਹੈ। 'ਨਾਸਿਰੁੱਦੀਨ ਮਹਿਮੂਦ' ਵੀ 'ਨਸੀਰੂਦੀਨ ਮਹਿਮੂਦ' ਸਫ਼ੇ ਦੀ ਨਕਲ ਹੈ। ਪਰ 'ਨਸੀਰੂਦੀਨ ਮਹਿਮੂਦ' ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਦੇ 'Nasiruddin Mahmud (son of Iltutmish)' ਦੇ ਸਫ਼ੇ ਨਾਲ ਜੁੜਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ ਪਰ ਅਸਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਇਹ 'Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah' ਦੇ ਸਹੀ ਅਨੁਵਾਦ ਨੂੰ ਦਰਸਾਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ। Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 17:09, 18 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ @Kuldeepburjbhalaike: ਜੀ, ਤੁਸੀਂ ਜਿਹੜਾ ਸਫ਼ਾ ਹਟਵਾਉਣਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਹੋ, ਉਸ ਸਫ਼ੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਜਾ ਕਾ {{ਮਿਟਾਓ|ਕਾਰਨ}} ਫਰਮਾ ਲਗਾ ਦਿਓ। ਇਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਿਟਾਉਣ ਦਾ ਕਾਰਨ ਵੀ ਦੱਸ ਦਿਓ। ਬਾਅਦ ਵਿੱਚ ਇਸ ਸਫ਼ੇ ਦੀ ਜਾਂਚ ਕਰਕੇ ਢੁਕਵੀਂ ਕਰਵਾਈ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਜਾਵੇਗੀ। ਧੰਨਵਾਦ --Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 07:57, 19 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਸਫ਼ੇ ਦੇ ਸਿਰਲੇਖ ਵਿੱਚ ਗਲਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਠੀਕ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ? Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:14, 19 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਉਸਦੇ ਲਈ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਸਫ਼ੇ ਨੂੰ Redirect ਕਰਨਾ ਪਵੇਗਾ। - Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:26, 19 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਬਹੁਤ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਜੀ Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:59, 19 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਉਸਦੇ ਲਈ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਸਫ਼ੇ ਨੂੰ Redirect ਕਰਨਾ ਪਵੇਗਾ। - Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:26, 19 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਸਫ਼ੇ ਦੇ ਸਿਰਲੇਖ ਵਿੱਚ ਗਲਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਠੀਕ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ? Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:14, 19 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਜੀ, ਜਦੋਂ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਤੇ 'Infobox Identity document' ਨਾਮ ਦਾ ਫਾਰਮ ਬਣਾਇਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਤਾਂ ਇਸਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਵਿਚ ਆਉਂਦੇ ਹਨ, ਕਿ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਇਸ ਸਬੰਧੀ ਮੱਦਦ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ? Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:28, 1 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਿ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਪਾਸਪੋਰਟ ਸਫ਼ੇ ਤੇ ਉਦਾਹਰਨ ਦੇਖ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ। Kuldeepburjbhalaike (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:29, 1 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
- ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰਨਾ @Kuldeep ਰੁਝੇਵਿਆਂ ਕਰਕੇ ਜਵਾਬ ਨਹੀਂ ਦੇ ਪਾਇਆ। ਤੁਸੀਂ ਕਦੇ ਵੀ ਮੈਨੂੰ 9876080108 'ਤੇ ਫ਼ੋਨ ਜਾਂ ਵਟਸਐਪ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ। Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 12:36, 1 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #22
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!
Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available
[ਸੋਧੋ]As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.
- About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
- Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.
We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.
If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.
Ongoing projects and explorations
[ਸੋਧੋ]We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.
We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.
Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).
Experiments analysis
[ਸੋਧੋ]Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:
- Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
- They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
- The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).
Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.
- Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
- Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]A new system for the mentors list
The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.
At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.
The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [12][13]
Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.
Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.
A tip for mentors
Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.
And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.
Other improvements
Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:
- While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [14]
- Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [15]
- Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [16]
Recent changes and fixed bugs
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [17]
- Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, ਪੋਲਿਸ਼ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ, ਚੀਨੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. [18]
- Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [19]
- In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [20]
Have a question? A suggestion?
[ਸੋਧੋ]Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.
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17:19, 21 ਸਤੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2023: Program submissions and Scholarships form are now open
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
We are really glad to inform you that WikiConference India 2023 has been successfully funded and it will take place from 3 to 5 March 2023. The theme of the conference will be Strengthening the Bonds.
We also have exciting updates about the Program and Scholarships.
The applications for scholarships and program submissions are already open! You can find the form for scholarship here and for program you can go here.
For more information and regular updates please visit the Conference Meta page. If you have something in mind you can write on talk page.
‘‘‘Note’’’: Scholarship form and the Program submissions will be open from 11 November 2022, 00:00 IST and the last date to submit is 27 November 2022, 23:59 IST.
Regards
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 11:25, 16 ਨਵੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
(on behalf of the WCI Organizing Committee)
WikiConference India 2023: Help us organize!
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
You may already know that the third iteration of WikiConference India is happening in March 2023. We have recently opened scholarship applications and session submissions for the program. As it is a huge conference, we will definitely need help with organizing. As you have been significantly involved in contributing to Wikimedia projects related to Indic languages, we wanted to reach out to you and see if you are interested in helping us. We have different teams that might interest you, such as communications, scholarships, programs, event management etc.
If you are interested, please fill in this form. Let us know if you have any questions on the event talk page. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 15:21, 18 ਨਵੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
(on behalf of the WCI Organizing Committee)
Growth team newsletter #23
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!
Highlights
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Mentorship: We released the new structured mentor list to all wikis. This change makes mentorship easier to setup, manage and use.
- Positive reinforcement: An improved impact module is available for testing.
Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test
[ਸੋਧੋ]The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.
Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.
This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.
Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback
[ਸੋਧੋ]After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.
We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:
- Patroller fatigue:
- By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.
- Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
- Add a Link
- Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
- The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
- The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
- Add an Image
- Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
- Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
- We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [21]
- Add a Link
The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.
Recent changes
[ਸੋਧੋ]- All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [22]
- The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [23][24]
- Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.
News for mentors
[ਸੋਧੋ]- All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
- We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
- Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting
Special:MentorDashboard
. - Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
- A new special page —
Special:ManageMentors
— now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
- The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [25]
Deployments
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. [26]
Improving this newsletter
[ਸੋਧੋ]We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.
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20:58, 29 ਨਵੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2023: Open Community Call and Extension of program and scholarship submissions deadline
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Thank you for supporting Wiki Conference India 2023. We are humbled by the number of applications we have received and hope to learn more about the work that you all have been doing to take the movement forward. In order to offer flexibility, we have recently extended our deadline for the Program and Scholarships submission- you can find all the details on our Meta Page.
COT is working hard to ensure we bring together a conference that is truly meaningful and impactful for our movement and one that brings us all together. With an intent to be inclusive and transparent in our process, we are committed to organizing community sessions at regular intervals for sharing updates and to offer an opportunity to the community for engagement and review. Following the same, we are hosting the first Open Community Call on the 3rd of December, 2022. We wish to use this space to discuss the progress and answer any questions, concerns or clarifications, about the conference and the Program/Scholarships.
Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call
- WCI 2023 Open Community Call
- Date: 3rd December 2022
- Time: 1800-1900 (IST)
- Google Link': https://meet.google.com/cwa-bgwi-ryx
Furthermore, we are pleased to share the email id of the conference contact@wikiconferenceindia.org which is where you could share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions and someone from the COT will reach out to you. Alternatively, leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 16:21, 2 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Core organizing team.
Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian, Glad to inform you that CIS-A2K is going to conduct an event, Indic Wiki improve-a-thon 2022, for the Indic language. It will run from 15 December to 5 January 2023. It will be an online activity however if communities want to organise any on-ground activity under Improve-a-thon that would also be welcomed. The event has its own theme Azadi Ka Amrit Mahatosav which is based on a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. The event will be for 20 days only. This is an effort to work on content enrichment and improvement. We invite you to plan a short activity under this event and work on the content on your local Wikis. The event is not restricted to a project, anyone can edit any project by following the theme. The event page link is here. The list is under preparation and will be updated soon. The community can also prepare their list for this improve-a-thon. If you have question or concern please write on here. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 07:35, 12 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022 has started
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedians, As you already know, Indic Wiki improve-a-thon 2022 has started today. It runs from 15 December (today) to 5 January 2023. This is an online activity however if communities want to organise any on-ground activity under Improve-a-thon please let us know at program@cis-india.org. Please note the event has a theme Azadi Ka Amrit Mahatosav which is based on a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. The event will be for 20 days only. This is an effort to work on content enrichment and improvement. The event is not restricted to a particular project. The event page link is here please add your name in the participant's section. A few lists are there and we will add more. The community can also prepare their list for this improve-a-thon but we suggest you list stub articles from your Wiki. If you have a question or concern please write here. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:30, 15 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2023:WCI2023 Open Community call on 18 December 2022
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
As you may know, we are hosting regular calls with the communities for WikiConference India 2023. This message is for the second Open Community Call which is scheduled on the 18th of December, 2022 (Today) from 7:00 to 8:00 pm to answer any questions, concerns, or clarifications, take inputs from the communities, and give a few updates related to the conference from our end. Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call.
- [WCI 2023] Open Community Call
- Date: 18 December 2022
- Time: 1900-2000 [7 pm to 8 pm] (IST)
- Google Link: https://meet.google.com/wpm-ofpx-vei
Furthermore, we are pleased to share the telegram group created for the community members who are interested to be a part of WikiConference India 2023 and share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions. Link to join the telegram group: https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl. Alternatively, you can also leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 08:11, 18 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2022 (UTC)
On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Organizing team
Translations for Wikimania 2023
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi Jagseer S Sidhu,
You are receiving this notification because you have listed yourself as a volunteer for Wikimania 2023 either on Meta or on Wikimania wiki or because you have subscribed on Meta. We already have a few pages related to Wikimania 2023 available for translation on Wikimania wiki. Your help with translating the following pages in your languages would be highly appreciated:
- wikimania:2023:Health
- wikimania:2023:Scholarship Questions
- wikimania:2023:Scholarships
- wikimania:2023:Scholarships/FAQ
- wikimania:2023:Scholarships/Samples
- wikimania:2023:Scholarships/Travel Scholarship application
- wikimania:2023:Tech Subcommittee
- wikimania:2023:Tech Subcommittee/Request for Proposal
- wikimania:2023:Visas
If you do not want to reiceive further notifications about pages related to Wikimania 2023, which are available for translation, you may remove your name from this list.
Thanks for your help! --Ameisenigel (talk)
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Request for filling up Google Form for Feminism and Folklore 2023
[ਸੋਧੋ]Greetings Organisers,
We appreciate your enthusiasm for Feminism and Folklore and your initiative in setting up the competition on your local wikipedia. We would want to learn more about the needs of your community and for that please fill out the google form (here) as soon as possible so that we can plan and adapt the demands according to your specifications. By February 8, 2023, all entries for this form will be closed. Do share about the contest on your local Wikipedia. Ask your local administrator to add Feminism and Folklore to Mediawiki:Sitenotice. Create your own or see an example on meta
Also a reminder regarding the prior Google form sent for Internet and Childcare Support Financial Aid (this). Anyone who hasn't already filled it out has until February 5, 2023 to do so.
Feel free to contact us via talkpage if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks and Regards,
Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team
MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 14:41, 30 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #24
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!
Newcomer experience projects
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:
- Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
- Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
- "Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
- Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.
Newcomer tasks
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [27]
- The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [28]
Mentorship
[ਸੋਧੋ]- When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [29]
- Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [30]
- Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?
- Please visit Special:MentorDashboard to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.
- If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed. Please ping Trizek (WMF) for assistance.
Other news
[ਸੋਧੋ]- In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [31]
- This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.
Translations
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Newsletter translation: We are looking for translators for this newsletter. If you are interested and have the needed English language proficiency to assist, then please add your name to this list. You will receive an invite on your talk page to translate the newsletter when it is ready.
- Interface translation: You can also help by translating the interface, or reviewing translations to make them more inclusive. Interface translations are hosted at translatewiki.net.
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Translations for Wikimania 2023
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi Jagseer S Sidhu,
You are receiving this notification because you have listed yourself as a volunteer for Wikimania 2023 either on Meta or on Wikimania wiki or because you have subscribed on Meta. Your help with translating the following pages on Wikimania wiki in your languages would be highly appreciated:
- wikimania:2023:Attendees
- wikimania:2023:Program Subcommittee
- wikimania:2023:Program/FAQ
- wikimania:2023:Program/Form Questions
- wikimania:2023:Program/Submissions
- wikimania:2023:Satellite events
- wikimania:2023:Scholarship Subcommittee
- wikimania:2023:Socialize
- wikimania:2023:Travel Coordination
If you do not want to reiceive further notifications about pages related to Wikimania 2023, which are available for translation, you may remove your name from this list.
Thanks for your help! --Ameisenigel (talk)
This message was delivered through Global message delivery --MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 09:40, 4 ਮਾਰਚ 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Ameisenigel
- I have translated Program/Submissions and 2023:Program/Form_Questions pages into Punjabi. I'll do other pages soon. Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 10:07, 4 ਮਾਰਚ 2023 (UTC)
- Great, thank you! --Ameisenigel (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 10:25, 4 ਮਾਰਚ 2023 (UTC)
Women's Month Datathon on Commons
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Hope you are doing well. CIS-A2K and CPUG have planned an online activity for March. The activity will focus on Wikimedia Commons and it will begin on 21 March and end on 31 March 2023. During this campaign, the participants will work on structure data, categories and descriptions of the existing images. We will provide you with the list of the photographs that were uploaded under those campaigns, conducted for Women’s Month.
You can find the event page link here. We are inviting you to participate in this event and make it successful. There will be at least one online session to demonstrate the tasks of the event. We will come back to you with the date and time.
If you have any questions please write to us at the event talk page Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 18:09, 12 ਮਾਰਚ 2023 (UTC)
Women's Month Datathon on Commons Online Session
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
Hope you are doing well. As we mentioned in a previous message, CIS-A2K and CPUG have been starting an online activity for March from 21 March to 31 March 2023. The activity already started yesterday and will end on 31 March 2023. During this campaign, the participants are working on structure data, categories and descriptions of the existing images. The event page link is here. We are inviting you to participate in this event.
There is an online session to demonstrate the tasks of the event that is going to happen tonight after one hour from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. You can find the meeting link here. We will wait for you. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 13:38, 22 ਮਾਰਚ 2023 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2023 has been extended
[ਸੋਧੋ]Greetings Organizers,
Greetings from Feminism and Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you that Feminism and Folklore an international writing contest on your local Wikipedia has been extended till the 15th of April 2023. This is the last chance of the year to write about feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more
We would like to have your immense participation in the writing contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Organizers have been notified some instructions on mail. Please get in touch via email if you need any assistance.
Best wishes,
International Team Feminism and Folklore. --MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 04:28, 30 ਮਾਰਚ 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #25
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Celebrations
[ਸੋਧੋ]Leveling up release
- We released Leveling up features to our pilot wikis on March 22 for an initial A/B test.
- In this test, we use post-edit dialogs (pop-ups shown after publishing an edit) and notifications to encourage new editors to try new types of newcomer-friendly suggested edits.
- We are closely monitoring the short term impact of this feature as well as the longer term effect on newcomer productivity and retention. If the experiment shows positive results, we will release this feature to more wikis.
5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February
- In February 2023, 5,035 images were added via the newcomer “add an image” feature (on all wikis where available); 155 were reverted.
- Since the feature “add an image” was launched: 36,803 images have been added; 2,957 images were reverted.
Recent changes
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Add a link
- Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled. [32][33]
- We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in Tech News. To know if newcomers at your wiki have access to this feature, please visit your Homepage.
- The Impact module was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published initial findings, and a data scientist is now completing experiment analysis. [34]
- Donor Thank you page experiment – Donors land on a “thank you” page after donation, and that landing page now includes a call to action to try editing: Example Thank you page in French. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias (French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia).
- Growth features are now the default experience on both test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. You can test our features there.
Upcoming work
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Add an image – We plan to offer section-level image suggestions as a structured task for newcomers.
- IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation – We will support this project for all Growth Team maintained products and extensions that may be affected by IP Masking. [38]
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Feminism and Folklore 2023 has ended, What's Next?
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Jagseer S Sidhu,
Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition has ended. We thank you for organizing it on your local Wikipedia and help in document folk cultures and women in folklore in different regions of the world on Wikipedia. What's next?
- Please complete the jury on or before 15th of May 2023.
- Email us on support@wikilovesfolklore.org the Wiki usernames of top three users with most accepted articles in local contest.
- Write the information about the winners on the projects Meta Wiki Results page
- You can also put the names of the winners on your local project page.
- We will be contacting the winners in phased manner for distribution of prizes.
Feel free to contact us via mail or talkpage if you need any help, clarification or assistance.
Thanks and regards,
International Team
Feminism and Folklore
Growth team newsletter #26
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
One million Suggested Edits
[ਸੋਧੋ]We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!
- The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (source)
- Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (source)
- Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
- Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. (source)
Positive reinforcement
[ਸੋਧੋ]Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.
- The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis. [39]
- The Leveling up features are deployed at our pilot wikis.
- The Personalized praise features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.
Add an image
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We are creating a new section-level variation of the “add an image” task. We have tested the accuracy of suggestions, and the development of this new task is well-underway. [40]
Other updates
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We are progressively releasing Add a link to more wikis. [41]
- After adding Thanks to Recent Changes, Watchlist and Special:Contributions, we investigated Thanks usage on the wikis. There is no evidence that thanks increased after the feature was added on more pages.
- We helped with code review for the 2023 Community Wish to add Notifications for user page edits. [42]
- We have been attending several community events, that we documented in our Growth’s Community events report.
What's next for Growth?
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We shared an overview of Growth annual planning ideas, and have started community discussion about these potential projects. We would love to hear your feedback on these ideas!
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Unused file
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi! As far as I can tell the file is not in use so why revert here: Special:Diff/689472? Non-free files should be deleted if they are not in use. --MGA73 (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 19:03, 12 ਜੂਨ 2023 (UTC)
- @MGA73: Hi, Thanks for noticing. The infobox was to be updated in the relevant article. Now I have updated the infobox. Please check here ਅਜਮਲ ਕਸਾਬ -- Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 07:02, 14 ਜੂਨ 2023 (UTC)
Deleting files
[ਸੋਧੋ]Hi!
Perhaps you could have a look at the files in ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ:ਛੇਤੀ ਮਿਟਾਉਣਯੋਗ ਸਫ਼ੇ and delete the files unless you can fix the problem?
All admins are very welcome to help out but I do not know where the best place to reach them is. --MGA73 (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 13:10, 2 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2023 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2023 - A Heartfelt Appreciation for Your Impactful Contribution!
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਤਰਜਮਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਦਦ ਕਰੋ
Dear Wikimedian,
We extend our sincerest gratitude to you for making an extraordinary impact in the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition. Your remarkable dedication and efforts have been instrumental in bridging cultural and gender gaps on Wikipedia. We are truly grateful for the time and energy you've invested in this endeavor.
As a token of our deep appreciation, we'd love to send you a special postcard. It serves as a small gesture to convey our immense thanks for your involvement in the competition. To ensure you receive this token of appreciation, kindly fill out this form by August 15th, 2023.
Looking ahead, we are thrilled to announce that we'll be hosting Feminism and Folklore in 2024. We eagerly await your presence in the upcoming year as we continue our journey to empower and foster inclusivity.
Once again, thank you for being an essential part of our mission to promote feminism and preserve folklore on Wikipedia.
With warm regards,
Feminism and Folklore International Team.
--MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 18:37, 25 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #27
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Annual plan for Growth
[ਸੋਧੋ]We shared our annual plan, for the period July 2023 - June 2024.
Our first project of the year will be Community configuration 2.0, which helps editors with extended rights transparently and easily configure important on-wiki functionality.
After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:
- Article creation: This project aims to provide new editors with better guidance and guardrails in the article creation process, with the intention of lightening the load of new page reviewers.
- Non-editing participation: This project aims to create low-risk ways for readers to participate in Wikipedia with the intention of funneling more readers into contributing to the Wikimedia movement.
Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.
Suggested edits
[ਸੋਧੋ]We released a new Section-level “add an image” structured task to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was part of the Structured Data Across Wikipedia project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.
Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new Language-Agnostic Topic Classification. This change affects non-English Wikipedia wikis. It will ensure newcomers receive a greater diversity of task recommendations. Before, as this feature was a test, English Wikipedia was used to select topics. The change is gradual as lists of topics are refreshed when they become empty. The Research team will evaluate the impact in a few months. [43]
Starting on August 1, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link": Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia.
Mentorship
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a mentorship program for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.
More communities have implemented mentorship. A Wikimedia Foundation data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship. We will look at the impact on Spanish and English Wikipedia. [44]
The Growth team will also host a Mentoring new editors on Wikipedia session at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.
Positive reinforcement
[ਸੋਧੋ]We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon. At the moment, the new Impact module, Leveling up, and Personalized praise are still being A/B tested on the Growth team's pilot wikis.
In the meantime, initial leading indicators for the Personalized praise project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy. They show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.
Growth contributes to IP Editing migration
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Growth team is currently focusing on IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation. It is a project that touches many different Wikimedia Foundation teams. The Growth team will focus on temporary accounts through two main points:
- the user experience of a logged-out user, that switches to a temporary account,
- change Growth-owned extensions and features, so that they work as expected with temporary accounts. [45]
Community Configuration 2.0
[ਸੋਧੋ]We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project:
- We are gathering internal Wikimedia Foundation teams' needs, so as community feedback. [46]
- We have started to investigate design improvements. [47]
- We are also reviewing similar tools that are part of other products. [48]
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Invitation to Rejoin the Healthcare Translation Task Force
[ਸੋਧੋ]You have been a medical translators within Wikipedia. We have recently relaunched our efforts and invite you to join the new process. Let me know if you have questions. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:34, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Image Description Month in India Campaign
[ਸੋਧੋ]Dear Wikimedian,
A2K has conducted an online activity or campaign which is an ongoing Image Description Month in India description-a-thon, a collaborative effort known as Image Description Month. This initiative aims to enhance image-related content across Wikimedia projects and is currently underway, running from October 1st to October 31st, 2023. Throughout this event, our focus remains centered on three primary areas: Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. We have outlined several tasks, including the addition of captions to images on Wikipedia, the association of images with relevant Wikidata items, and improvements in the organization, categorization, and captions of media files on Wikimedia Commons.
To participate, please visit our dedicated event page. We encourage you to sign up on the respective meta page and generously contribute your time and expertise to make essential and impactful edits.
Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at nitesh@cis-india.org or Nitesh (CIS-A2K).
Your active participation will play a significant role in enriching Wikimedia content, making it more accessible and informative for users worldwide. Join us in this ongoing journey of improvement and collaboration. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 16:09, 10 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #28
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Community configuration 2.0
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
- Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
- Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.
IP Masking
[ਸੋਧੋ]- The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
- Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)
Mentorship
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We assembled some resources for mentors at Mediawiki wiki. This resource page is translatable and will be linked from the mentor dashboard.
- We are working to resolve a bug related to mentors properly returning after being marked as "Away". (T347024)
- Half of newcomers at English Wikipedia get a mentor assigned to them. To ensure every newcomer receives mentorship, we need additional volunteer mentors at English Wikipedia to achieve a 100% coverage rate. We also encourage experienced users from other wikis to help newcomers at their own community.
Scaling Growth features
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
- We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
- At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.
Other news
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
- You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
- After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.
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Growth team newsletter #29
[ਸੋਧੋ]Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Community Conversations
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.
This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.
Impact Module
[ਸੋਧੋ]At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. [49]
Add a Link
[ਸੋਧੋ]We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. [50] [51]
We have a few Wikipedias remaining:
- German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
- There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.
Community Configuration
[ਸੋਧੋ]- We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. [52] 🖂
- Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
- A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
- Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.
Mentorship
[ਸੋਧੋ]When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. [53]
We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. [54]
We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. [55]
It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. [56]
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Question from ਗੁਰਸਾਬ ਸਿੰਘ on ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ:New user message (14:48, 25 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2023)
[ਸੋਧੋ]Veer ji jet fuel Dizel Gadi ch koi Nuksan Ta ni Karda --ਗੁਰਸਾਬ ਸਿੰਘ (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 14:48, 25 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2023 (UTC)
Growth News, April 2024
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
Community Configuration
[ਸੋਧੋ]Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig
. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
Experiment Results
[ਸੋਧੋ]Add a Image experiment analysis results
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
- The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
- The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
- The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
- A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).
Personalized praise experiment results
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)
English donors encouraged to try editing
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)
Future work
[ਸੋਧੋ]Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
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Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C
[ਸੋਧੋ]- You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਤਰਜਮਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਦਦ ਕਰੋ
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Question from Lovepreet Singh sohnewala on ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ:ਦਰੱਖ਼ਤ (05:40, 21 ਮਈ 2024)
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਨਿੰਮ ਦਾ ਰੁੱਖ।
ਨਿੰਮ ਦਾ ਰੁੱਖ ਲਗਭਗ ਪੂਰੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿੱਚ ਪਾਇਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਇਹ ਰੁੱਖ ਫਾਇਦੇਮੰਦ ਰੁੱਖ ਹੈ । ਇਸਦੀ ਦਾਤਨ ਦੰਦਾਂ ਲਈ ਬਹੁਤ ਫਾਇਦੇਮੰਦ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ । ਇਸ ਰੁੱਖ ਦਾ ਰਸ ਜ਼ਖਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਹੁਤ ਅਰਾਮ ਦਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ । ਇਸ ਰੁੱਖ ਦੀ ਛਾਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਸੰਘਣੀ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ । ਨਿੰਮ ਦੀਆਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਸਾਰੀਆਂ ਅਲੱਗ ਅਲੱਗ ਕਿਸਮਾਂ ਹੁੰਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ ।
ਲਵਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੋਹਣੇਵਾਲਾ --Lovepreet Singh sohnewala (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 05:40, 21 ਮਈ 2024 (UTC)
- ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਲਈ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਜੀਓ Jagseer S Sidhu (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 03:22, 22 ਮਈ 2024 (UTC)
Question from Avtar Singh Billing on ਅਵਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਿਲਿੰਗ (00:10, 31 ਮਈ 2024)
[ਸੋਧੋ]ਪਿਆਰਿਉ ਮੇਰੀਆਂ ਹੋਰ ਪੁਸਤਕਾਂ ਵੀ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਕਰ ਦਿਉ। ਨਵਾਂ ਨਾਵਲ - ਹੋਇਆ ਦੇਸ ਪਰਾਇਆ 2024. ਵਾਰਤਕ - ਮੇਰਾ ਪਿੰਡ ਮੇਰੇ ਲੋਕ 2022. ਮੂਰਤਾਂ ਰੰਗ ਬਰੰਗੀਆਂ 2023. ਸਿਦਕੀ ਪਰਵਾਨੇ (ਕਵੀਸ਼ਰੀ ਜਰਨੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਿਰਾਲਾ) ਸੰਪਾਦਨਾ 1993.
Tips on School Management (English prose) 1999. --Avtar Singh Billing (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 00:10, 31 ਮਈ 2024 (UTC)
Growth News, July 2024
[ਸੋਧੋ]Community Configuration
[ਸੋਧੋ]The Growth team released Community Configuration at all Wikipedias. You can access it at Special:CommunityConfiguration
.
This new special page replaces Special:EditGrowthConfig
. For now, all Growth features can be configured using Community Configuration. Configuration for AutoModerator (T365046) and other features will be available in the future.
You can help with translations. The interface translation is done at Translatewiki.net. You can also help translate the documentation.
If you attend Wikimania 2024, please join us for the session about Community configuration's future!
Current work
[ਸੋਧੋ]Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test at our pilot wikis using the new Metrics Platform. We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
Future work
[ਸੋਧੋ]Increase constructive activation on mobile
As part of the Growth team 2024/2025 Annual Plan, the Growth team will explore various ways to increase the percentage of newcomers who successfully start editing.
Editing a Wikipedia page requires too much context and patience. It means many trial and error for newcomers to contribute, meaning a steeper learning curve and potential discouraging reverts. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller, structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g. Edit Check and Structured Tasks). The Growth team will primarily focus on Structured Tasks, while working closely with the Editing team to ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.
Stay informed
[ਸੋਧੋ]Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
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15:08, 30 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2024 (UTC)
Growth News, October 2024
[ਸੋਧੋ]Current work
[ਸੋਧੋ]Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.
Constructive activation experimentation
After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.
This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:
- The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
- Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)
Future work
[ਸੋਧੋ]As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.
Community events
[ਸੋਧੋ]- Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
- Habib Mhenni gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available.
Stay informed
[ਸੋਧੋ]Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
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