User talk:Tumbuka Arch/Archive 22

TumbukaArchBot

@Tumbuka Arch Hello, I saw you are encoding a bot called TumbukaArchBot. I am intrigued by this. I understand bots take a lot of work, but I wanted to make my own bot which expands the very short articles on this wiki by adding and translating information from Wikidata and other Wikipedias (for example the English and Swahili editions).

I don't know where to start, so I hope you have some knowledge? Yewo chomene!! Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi_★^★_★ 12:45, 13 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

@Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi, thanks for reminding me. The bot is already available and currently in test. I can post instructions via email if it is okay with you. Yewo chomene. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 11:14, 16 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

Yes please! Amazing to see its up and running. Yewo chomene. Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi_★^★_★ 11:58, 16 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

Growth/Newsletters/36

Updates from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

Recent releases

Account creation experiments

Several experiments to increase successful account creation have delivered significant results.

• An updated message shown to logged-out mobile users who try to edit produced a 27% relative increase in account creation and is being scaled to all wikis. (T424595)
• A new account menu button in the mobile web header, A/B tested across five Wikipedias with nearly 8 million participants, made logged-out mobile users 25% more likely to create an account, with no significant difference in constructive editing behavior. (T428220)
• A simpler post-edit dialog for temporary account holders increased permanent account creation by 87% (relative), converting more temp editors into registered ones. (T416418)

  

  The redesigned account creation form increases registration by a relative 24.4%

• We also redesigned the account creation form itself (T409236): adding real-time username validation, a concise summary of the username policy, a "reveal password" option, and a simplified design aligned with Codex guidelines. In an A/B test on English Wikipedia mobile, users who saw the redesigned form created permanent accounts at a rate of 20.4%, compared to 16.4% for the control group (a 24.4% relative increase).

Revise Tone structured task

Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages that may contain non-encyclopedic language and guides them through revising the tone. In A/B testing on Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, newcomer task completion rates were 38.7% higher than the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended July 9, and the feature is now available to everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. We plan to release Revise Tone to more wikis.

Automated mentor list cleanup

Communities can now automatically mark inactive mentors as away or remove them from mentorship entirely (which automatically reassigns their mentees). Inactivity is based on edits, and talk page responses count, so mentors answering mentee questions remain active. We recommend enabling both options together; administrators can enable them via Special:CommunityConfiguration and review the mentor list at Special:ManageMentors.

Growth features for Wikidata

Growth features are now available at Wikidata, including a simplified Newcomer Homepage, Mentorship, the Impact module, Community Updates and the Help Panel.

Work in progress

Early concepts for evolving the Newcomer Homepage into a personalized 'Home' that grows with contributors.

Home

The Growth and Moderator Tools teams are developing Home (T419358): a unified, personalized landing page intended to replace the Newcomer Homepage. Rather than remaining a newcomer-only feature, Home will evolve with users as they gain experience, surfacing Suggested Edits, edits to review, and moderation workflows at the right moment.

Research

The Wikimedia Research team, in partnership with the Growth Team, published findings from two projects on how new editors learn and integrate into the community:

• Understanding newcomer mentorship on Wikipedia
• Successful Newcomers Survey

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13:17, 18 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much

Hello @Tumbuka Arch, yewo chomene for making me an administrator! I will help out this wiki a lot! I hope you are having a good day. Yewo chomene!

PS I also made Depop a good article, since it has so much information. Please remove the badge if you disagree. Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi_★^★_★ 04:53, 23 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

@Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi Hi, I thought I had replied to this, the page is amazing and it deserves a good article badge. Yewo chome. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 17:03, 28 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

Potential Retiring

@Tumbuka Arch Hi, I'm here to let you know I am possibly retiring from the Tumbuka Wikipedia and Wikimedia as a whole in the next few days. I admit I abused multiple accounts across multiple crosswikis. I was trying to be helpful by adding content in more languages for more people to read, but of course I understand why you shouldn't do that, and now this account is blocked on the English wiki. I am deeply sorry, and I regret it a lot and wish I could go back in time before I created those accounts. It has been a great time, and I will continue reading this Wikipedia without any accounts used to edit. Yewo chomene, and good bye. Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi_★^★_★ 08:02, 29 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)

@Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi 😭😭 So I am alone again. I am heart broken, and not because of "accounts" issue but how helpful you were here. We were getting to know each other bit by bit, even though we never sent each other any emails or any sort of (personal) contact. I finally thought this wiki at least has two established standing users.

Your edits on this wiki were so helpful and precious.

I have checked the enwiki page.

I am begging you if possible, to keep using this account of yours here on this wiki as you are only blocked on enwiki. Alternatively, you can completely start afresh with a new account, but if you happen to create another one, remember to disclose/or tag it on your main account.

I also have 3 accounts on Wikipedia which were created when I was a new comer and I disclosed them soon after creating them. See; User:Main focus talk, you can read what I wrote there and see links to other accounts. The reason I didn't tag or mention them on my main account of Tumbuka Arch is that I am trying hard to forget them, and never ever use them again.

Please find some way to keep helping us here. Yewo chomene and sorry to hear about the incident. Tumbuka Arch^★_★^★ 11:15, 29 Mpupulu 2026 (UTC)