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=== Growth team feature test begins tomorrow (June 8) ===
Hello everyone -- in the past weeks, lots of English community members have tried out the features, and we've heard largely positive reactions and ideas. We also have [[wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list|16 mentors signed up]] (we don't need more for this test, but we will need more in the future!) [[Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features#When to kick off the test|After discussing it with the most involved community members]], we set a date to begin testing the features on this wiki. Our plan is to start giving the Growth features to 2% of newcomers starting tomorrow, June 8. This means that for all new accounts created starting tomorrow, 2% of them will have the Growth features and the rest will not. Because English Wikipedia gets about 130,000 new accounts per month, we expect this will amount to 2,600 newcomers having the features over the course of the month.
I don't think this deployment will affect the day-to-day for the Introduction, except that it will drive more newcomers to view the Introduction pages, which will be linked from the "newcomer homepage" part of the Growth features. Though with the 2% test, we only expect to see a small (if any) increase in traffic, traffic may increase more in the future as we expose the feature to more newcomers. Edits from newcomers with the Growth features will be visible in Recent Changes and watchlists with the tags ''#Newcomer task'', ''#Mentorship module question'', and ''#Mentorship panel question''.
While the test is running, the Growth team will monitor newcomer activity to identify if anything negative is occurring (like an increase in vandalism) -- if something goes wrong, we'll be able to quickly make changes. At the end of about four weeks, we'll reflect on the data and ask mentors about their experiences to decide how to proceed, in terms of whether to increase the number of newcomers who receive the features.
I hope this sounds good to everyone here -- we think we've planned this carefully with community input, but I definitely want to hear if anyone has questions or concerns. I'll plan to post again tomorrow to confirm that the test has started. -- [[User:MMiller (WMF)|MMiller (WMF)]] ([[User talk:MMiller (WMF)|talk]]) 18:58, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
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