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Growth News #35

A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

New releases

English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task

We released the "Add a Link" Structured Task to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).

Growth features for Wikidata

After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata to allow for testing and discussion (T400937). Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

Work in progress

Revise Tone Structured Task

The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing. We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

Add a link to more wikis

The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.

Add a link, which can be configured by the community locally, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.

Research

The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:

Progression System – We have published initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers. The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.

Mobile Web Editing Research – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.

Newcomers Survey – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.

Community events

The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.

Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement

This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.

Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks

This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.

Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors

With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors

Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.

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10:23, 22 Okutobala 2025 (UTC)

Update request

Hello, Tumbuka Arch.

Can you rename Prince Andrew, Fumu ya York into Andrew Mountbatten Windsor (without the hyphen)?

After all his titles, honours and styles were stripped of him on 30 October 2025, he became plain (Mr.) Andrew Mountbatten Windsor (with no hyphen).

Here is the official statement from Buckingham Palace:

https://www.royal.uk/news-and-activity/2025-10-30/a-statement-from-buckingham-palace

Yours sincerely, Kurcke (pakuchezgela) 06:25, 2 Novembala 2025 (UTC)

@Kurcke Thank you for this.I have moved it to current proper name. :) Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 07:38, 2 Novembala 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Kurcke (pakuchezgela) 07:40, 2 Novembala 2025 (UTC)

AI-generated articles on tumwiki

Hi Tumbuka Arch, it's been a while. I thought I'd just let you know that Jon Gua/Caro de Segeda has been found to be dumping AI translations of articles crosswiki, you can refer to evidence at m:Steward requests/Miscellaneous#Mass machine translations/AI-generated pages or m:User:Ferien/Chabi (which is more of a work in progress). I wanted to let you know, as this is a wiki with active admins, the articles here won't be being deleted by stewards, so I would recommend you thoroughly review the articles and consider deletions. Best, Ferien (pakuchezgela) 22:16, 26 Malichi 2026 (UTC)

@Ferien, thank you. Yes, has been days indeed, and it's good to see you.

About the issue, I will take a look at the said articles and fix them.

The User Caro de Segeda (Jon Gua), on the other hand, has been very helpful on this wiki and it is him who has taught me almost everything about templates, special pages, or basically everything. Before me on this wiki, there was only you who was looking after (checking up on) this wiki. Then I came as a newbie only after I entered the wrong "www.wikipedia.org", instead of "en.wikipedia.org". The first link leads to many languages and I had little hope to find the wiki in my language. I was shocked to see this wiki. Few edits and you already helped me be a better editor, and few months Caro helped me. Since then, he has been helpful ever since with over 4,000 edits that matter to this community.

However, the AI articles are a serious case, and I hope he looks into that and fix them (or with the help of natives), assuming those articles aren't gone yet. Also, I will fix the ones that are here though I always patrol recent changes and new pages, fixing them along the way.

Thank you. - Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 15:51, 28 Malichi 2026 (UTC)

He's now been globally blocked, so he can't fix them directly anymore. A steward is deleting the pages on the wikis without active admins, so no pages here will be deleted unless you or another admin choose to. AI-generated pages can sometimes be ok, but often suffer from hallucinations where it will confidently say something that isn't true, and occasionally have issues with sourcing if they are even present - in a lot of Jon Gua/Caro de Segeda's pages they just included no sources at all. Best, Ferien (pakuchezgela) 12:20, 30 Malichi 2026 (UTC)

You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election

Greetings,

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) seeks candidates for the 2026 election. The U4C is the global committee responsible for overseeing enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct. Elections are held annually, if elected a committee member serves for two years.

This year the U4C requires candidates to hold administrator rights on at least one wiki, which is why you are being contacted as you appear to hold this right. There are other requirements, such as candidates must be at least 18 years old and may not be employed by the Wikimedia Foundation or other related chapters and affiliates. You can find more information in the call for candidates on Meta-wiki. Additionally, the committee's working language is English; some ability to communicate in English is required.

The election opens on 18 May, if you are eligible and interested you have until 10 May to submit your candidacy. There will be a week in between for candidates to answer questions from the community. Voting takes place privately in SecurePoll, successful candidates must receive at least 60% support. More information is available on the 2026 Elections page, including timelines and other candidacy information. If you read over the material and consider yourself qualified, please consider submitting your name to run for the committee. If you think someone else in your community might be interested and qualified, please encourage them to run.

In partnership with the U4C -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:17, 28 Epulelo 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, will surely review that. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 17:17, 22 Julayi 2026 (UTC)

How do you import revisions?

I'd like to know. Yewo Chomene. Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi_★^★_★ 12:03, 22 Julayi 2026 (UTC)

@Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi, hie yes. Any page you wanted me to import its revision? Yewo chomene. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 17:16, 22 Julayi 2026 (UTC)

@Tumbuka Arch No sorry, I meant how can I import revisions myself. Yewo chomene. Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi_★^★_★ 12:15, 23 Julayi 2026 (UTC)

@Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi you don't have importer rights. Just another case I advised you to become an admin, to which you said you needed experience first. Again, they won't make you an admin without having a valid email address attached to your account. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 19:36, 24 Julayi 2026 (UTC)

importer rights are bundled with admin right, but can also be requested separately. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 19:38, 24 Julayi 2026 (UTC)