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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/Archive 1#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)
:Hello everyone -- I'm following up here to let everyone know that the Growth features are now available to test on English Wikipedia. They are ''not'' being assigned to any newcomers yet, but experienced users may turn them on in preferences to try them. We hope you try them out on desktop or mobile and leave any notes here (or on the [[Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features|project talk page]]). After a couple weeks, and after we iron out any issues, we plan to start giving the features to 2% of newcomers to get a sense of how they work on this wiki, and so that we can make plans for next steps.
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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/Archive 1#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''.
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