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:::[[User:Sdkb|Sdkb]]: I moved the closing {{tag|div|c}} tags as I suggested. According to [https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki Outstanding linter errors on enwiki], there is only one (1) lint error in all of the Help namespace, a stripped {{tag|div|c}} in [[Help:Wikitext]], and this lint error is an artifact of some unusual markup to deal with the ideosyncracies of the {{tag|pre|o}} tag, for which I didn't see an obvious workaround. So, at the moment, except possibly for [[Help:Wikitext]], no further lint control work is required in the Help namespace. It may be possible to improve the placement of the closing {{tag|div|c}} tags in [[Help:Introduction/All]], but this would be for clarity and ease of further editing, not for fixing lint errors. —[[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]] ([[User talk:Anomalocaris|talk]]) 22:54, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

::::Thanks; sounds good! <span style="color:#AAA"><small>&#123;{u&#124;</small><span style="border-radius:9em;padding:0 5px;background:#088">[[User:Sdkb|<span style="color:#FFF">'''Sdkb'''</span>]]</span><small>}&#125;</small></span> ^{[[User talk:Sdkb|'''talk''']]} 23:33, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

== Growth features for newcomers ==

Hello Introduction folks -- I'm Marshall Miller; I'm the product manager for the [[Wikipedia:Growth Team features|Wikimedia Foundation's Growth team]], which works on features meant to increase the retention of new editors. The features give newcomers clear tasks to do to get started, and connect them with an experienced mentor to answer their questions.[[File:Screen_shot_of_suggested_edits_module_in_Czech_Wikipedia_2020-03-20.png|alt=|thumb|Screenshot of suggested edits module in Czech Wikipedia]]

In the past year, we have found evidence that the Growth features have a positive impact on newcomer engagement, and this has led us to deploy the features to a total of 33 wikis, including some large ones like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese Wikipedias. So far, so good! Because we've seen the features lead to good outcomes, we have started the conversation around what it would be like to try them on English Wikipedia.

I'm posting here because you all have thought a lot about the newcomer experience on English Wikipedia. I hope some of you can check out [[Wikipedia:Growth Team features|the project page]] and also [[Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features#Beginning the discussion of deployment|the discussion]] where we are thinking about how to try these features on English Wikipedia. Please do chime in either here, or on that discussion page. If you want to try out the features, you can see [[mw:Growth/Feature_summary#Try_the_features|these simple instructions]] for how to try them on Test Wikipedia. -- [[User:MMiller (WMF)|MMiller (WMF)]] ([[User talk:MMiller (WMF)|talk]]) 19:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)