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Towns

Hello, Abel Santamaría (Encrucijada) and Constancia, Cuba are the same place, “Abel Santamaría” is the official name, with Constancia being the former named (still used by most people tho) CubanoBoi 00:20, 15 Ogasiti 2023 (UTC) CubanoBoi 00:20, 15 Ogasiti 2023 (UTC)[zgola]

@CubanoBoi Really? Wow good to know.
Alternatively, we can merge such places if they are one thing. Tumbuka Arch (pakuchezgela) 10:56, 15 Ogasiti 2023 (UTC)[zgola]
They changed the name cuz the Sugar Mill, every town with a sugar mill had both the sugar mill and the towns name was changed to a Revolutionary (Cuban Revolution aka Communist)/Independence fighter (Cuban War of Independence, against the Spanish Empire) when Castro took over. CubanoBoi 19:05, 15 Ogasiti 2023 (UTC)[zgola]
@CubanoBoi Thanks for the info. We need to write about Cuban Revolution. In fact, we need some articles found here. Tumbuka Arch (pakuchezgela) 13:05, 20 Ogasiti 2023 (UTC)[zgola]

Growth team newsletter #28

Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Configuration, concept A: Accordion style
Community Configuration, concept B: Dashboard style

Community configuration 2.0

  • 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

  • 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

Scaling Growth features

  • 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

  • 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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Trizek_(WMF) Kudumbizgana 23:16, 16 Okutobala 2023 (UTC)[zgola]

Revision

Hi, could you please revise this article? --Caro de Segeda (pakuchezgela) 09:32, 1 Novembala 2023 (UTC)[zgola]

Growth team newsletter #29

Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Conversations

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

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. [1]

Add a Link

We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. [2] [3]

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

Mentorship

When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. [5]

We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. [6]

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. [7]

It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. [8]

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18:04, 1 Disembala 2023 (UTC)

Greetings

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! --Caro de Segeda (pakuchezgela) 10:36, 31 Disembala 2023 (UTC)[zgola]

@Caro de Segeda Hey, greetings! It's good to see you checking up on this wiki, huh. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too! I am currently active on enwiki. Despite frequent fights and troubles with admins there, I still consider it as a second home wiki. Tumbuka Arch★★★ 10:56, 31 Disembala 2023 (UTC)[zgola]
Whenever you have time I would like to ask you to revise these two texts, written in Tumbuka and Chewa:
Text in English
Glosa is an artificial auxiliary language designed for international communication. It has several characteristics:
  • Its pronunciation is regular, and its spelling is phonetic.
  • Its structure is very simple and based on meaning.
  • It is an analytical language with no inflections or genders. A small number of words handle grammatical relations.
  • Above all, Glosa is neutral and truly international due to the use of Latin and Greek roots, which are used in the international scientific vocabulary.
Text in Chichewa
Chiyambi chachidule cha Chichewa Glosa ndi chinenero chochita kupanga chothandizira kulankhulana ndi mayiko. Ili ndi mawonekedwe angapo:
  • Katchulidwe kake kamakhala kokhazikika, ndipo katchulidwe kake ndi kafonitiki.
  • Kapangidwe kake ndi kophweka komanso kozikidwa pa tanthauzo.
  • Ndi chiyankhulo chowunikira komanso chopanda mawu kapena jenda. Mawu ochepa chabe amagwirizana ndi galamala.
  • Koposa zonse, Glosa salowerera ndale komanso wapadziko lonse lapansi chifukwa chogwiritsa ntchito mizu ya Chilatini ndi Chigiriki, zomwe zimagwiritsidwa ntchito m'mawu asayansi apadziko lonse lapansi.
Text in Tumbuka
Mazgu Ghakwamba mu Chitumbuka Glosa ni ciyowoyero cakovwira ico cikupangika kuti ŵanthu ŵa mu vyaru vyakupambanapambana ŵayowoyeskanenge. Likuŵa na vinthu vinandi:
  • Lizgu ili likuyowoyeka mwakudunjika, ndipo likulembeka mwakuyana na umo mazgu ghakuyowoyekera.
  • Ng'anamuro lake ndakupulikikwa makora.
  • Ni ciyowoyero ico cikuyowoya mwakudumura vinthu, ndipo palije mazgu agho ghakulongora umo munthu waliri. Mazgu ghacoko waka ghakulongosora umo mazgu ghakugwilira nchito.
  • Kweni pa vyose, Glosa yikuleka kunjilirapo pa nkhani za ndyali ndipo yikukolerana na vyaru vinyake chifukwa cha kugwiliskira nchito visambizgo vya Cilatini na Cigiriki, ivyo vikusangika mu mabuku gha sayansi.
Thanks for your help. Caro de Segeda (pakuchezgela) 11:09, 31 Disembala 2023 (UTC)[zgola]

Help to remove sock’s vandalism

Hi there!


An infamous sock-puppet user, @Milktaco, vandalized the page Human_rights_in_Vietnam. This user wrote two sections called “Repression of Chams,” and “Ethnic Minorities.” I hope you could please help me remove it.


Evidence of Milktaco writing them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_rights_in_Vietnam&diff=prev&oldid=612402516

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_rights_in_Vietnam&diff=next&oldid=612402516

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_rights_in_Vietnam&diff=next&oldid=612402612

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_rights_in_Vietnam&diff=next&oldid=624221294


Here is Milktaco’s sock puppet investigation page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Milktaco/Archive


Please read the “Fixing neutrality” section of this Talk page as well, to get an understanding of Milktaco’s behavior:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Racism_in_Vietnam

“[he is] an infamous Chinese sockpuppetry editor. He has over 100 accounts that have been blocked. He is obsessed with being anti-Japanese, anti-Vietnamese, anti-White, anti-European, anti-Korean, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-American along with other indecent misinformation of his such as pedophillia, rape, slavery and prostitution if you look at the edits of him and his sockpuppets. A lot of his information and sources are from blog posts and Youtube videos. Any reputable source he uses is taken out of context.”


Tabushern (pakuchezgela) 02:35, 4 Janyuwale 2024 (UTC)[zgola]

Growth News, April 2024

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

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

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

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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