Growth/Výsledky
Tato stránka shrnuje metriky a grafy ukazující používání a dopad funkcí týmu Growth. Data jsou aktuální k listopadu 2020.
Editační tipy
Editační tipy jsou hlavní funkcí dostupnou na domovské stránce nováčka. Využívají údržbových šablon, aby nováčkům doporučili články, které vyžadují úpravy spočívající např. v korekturách či přidání wiki odkazů. Nováčci si mohou vybrat téma, které je zajímá, a poté dostanou rady, které jim pomohou dokončit vybranou editaci. Tato funkce úspěšně generuje produktivní editace, a zvyšuje množství nováčků, kteří editují.
Celková čísla
- K lednu 2021 uložilo 8 200 nováčků celkem 56 000 editací právě za použití tohoto nástroje (který je dostupný na celkem 17 Wikipediích).
- The number of edits and editors has been increasing quickly, due to improvements to the feature and through more wikis deploying the feature.
- They are making copyedits, adding links, and sometimes adding new content with references.
- Newcomer tasks edits seem to be of high quality. Usually, 18% of edits made by newcomers are reverted. Only 12% of edits made by newcomers through newcomer tasks are reverted.
- 21% of these users make 5 or more suggested edits.
- 12% of these users make suggested edits on 3 or more days.
- Some wikis engage more heavily with newcomer tasks than others. For instance, Persian Wikipedia does a very high number of suggested edits for its size.
- Some users do a few suggested edits and then move on to more challenging contributions, such as content translation. Other users continue to do suggested edits day after day.
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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. -
The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.
Impact experiment
In order to understand the impact of Growth features, and specifically "newcomer tasks", we deployed the features in a controlled experiment. Some newcomers received the features (the treatment group) and some did not (the control group). The experiment lasted for six months, and we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias.
In general, the analysis showed that the Growth features improve outcomes for newcomers. Below are the most important points.
- Newcomers who get the Growth features are 11.6% more likely to make a first article edit (i.e. to be "activated").
- Newcomers who get the Growth features are 26.7% more likely to make a first unreverted article edit.
- We believe they are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another article edit on a different day).
- The features also increase edit volume (i.e. number of edits) without reducing constructiveness (i.e. if edits are reverted).
We believe that these results confirm that the Growth features, in particular newcomer tasks, lead newcomers to edit more and lead newcomers to stay on the wiki for longer.
Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features.
Mentorství a panel Potřebuji pomoc
Mentorský modul přidělí každému nováčkovi mentora ze seznamu zkušených wikipedistů, kteří se nabídli, že budou nováčkům pomáhat. Nováček se tak může snadno ptát zkušeného wikipedisty bez nutnosti používat diskusní stránky, které jsou většinou ve wikitextu.
The help panel is present whenever a newcomer is editing a page, and gives them a way to ask questions to their wiki's help desk. It also allows them to search for help pages.
These results are as of November 2020:
- 14,228 mentor questions have been asked by 11,785 users.
- 2,029 help panel questions have been asked by 1,544 users.
- About 20% of newcomers who see the help panel open it up, and about 50% of those who open it up interact with it.
- The help panel on its own does not increase newcomer edits, but we have retained this feature because we use it to provide guidance as part of the promising newcomer tasks flow described above.