User talk:Omotecho

You help us make elections more inclusive and diverse. Thank you !Edit

Elections Volunteers - 2022 Board of Trustees Election

A big thank you, Omotecho, for helping mobilize your community to vote during the 2022 Board of Trustees Election.

Thanks to your great translation and distribution work, we reach more communities!

Many thanks!

MPossoupe (WMF) (talk) 10:38, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #22Edit

Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly availableEdit

As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.

About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

Ongoing projects and explorationsEdit

The new impact module is part of the Positive Reinforcement project. The image displays the mockup for mobile we used for user testing.

We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

Experiments analysisEdit

Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:

Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.

Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.

News for mentorsEdit

A new system for the mentors list

The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [1][2]

Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

A tip for mentors

Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.

Other improvements

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:

While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [3]
Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [4]
Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [5]

Recent changes and fixed bugsEdit

We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [6]
Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. [7]
Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [8]
In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [9]

Have a question? A suggestion?Edit

Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.

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17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Update to commentlinks.js gadgetEdit

I am about to update my comment links gadget to link the comment's timestamp rather than add a separate [ link ] button. If you prefer the old style, that gadget will be available at commentlinks-v1.js. As before, this gadget is experimental and may stop working at any time, see T275729 for the task to make this a proper feature. Thanks, ESanders (WMF) (talk) 12:11, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Translation request (OC/CRC appointments)Edit

Hi Omotecho! Hope all is well. As you may have heard, I have a new role and one of my responsibilities is helping with staff support for the Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee (CRC). I noticed you had helped translate a CRC call for applications in the past, and I was wondering if you had time to translate the latest call: Wikimedia Foundation Legal department/Announcement/2023 OC and CRC appointments process. If not, I understand.

I would also appreciate if you could share it to anyone who might be interested to join either of these groups. Of course your expertise and experience would be valued as well, if it's something you're interested in. All the best, Xeno (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2022Edit

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 9 • September 2022

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Give you a barnstar.Edit

		The Translation Barnstar
		Thanks for your wonderful daily translations. --Lemonaka (talk) 06:32, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

@Lemonaka thank you so much, I am honored. (=0-- Omotecho (talk) 08:14, 11 November 2022 (UTC)