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Growth team updates #15
Welcome to the fifteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Variants C and D deployed
Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We hope they will increase the number of users using suggested edits. They both make suggested edits the clear place where newcomers should get started on the page. They have some differences in their workflows, because we want to test which design is better. We deployed these variants on October 19; half of newcomers get each variant. After about 5 weeks, we will analyze the data from the tests. The goal is to determine which variant is helping more newcomers to make more suggested edits. We will identify the better variant and then use it with all newcomers.

Structured tasks: add a link
As we discussed in previous newsletters, the team is working on our first "structured task": the "add a link" task. After community discussion on design ideas, we ran user tests on the mobile designs. We decided on the design concept we want to use moving forward: Concept A. We're now engineering the backend for this feature. Next, we will be running user tests for desktop designs.

Learn more about the findings.

Community news

 * We recently deployed the Growth features to Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish Wikipedias. 18 wikis now have Growth features. Learn more about getting the features.
 * Have you recently checked if all interface messages are translated for your language?

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg John M Wolfson
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ragesoss
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Anarchyte
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Yunshui

Guideline and policy news
 * Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news
 * Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
 * Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
 * Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration
 * The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
 * The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous
 * A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Template:Did you know nominations/2b2t
Hi, after you promote a hook to a prep set, you need to close the template. See instructions at WP:DYKNA. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:45, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * apologies I was in mobile and I didn't notice. Sorry for the inconvenience. — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 14:40, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * But are you going to close it? Yoninah (talk) 17:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Not sure why you promoted this template when there's no final tick on it. Even if it takes time, we have to wait for someone to sign off on the licensing issue. Please undo your promotion for now. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 18:15, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * A second administrator and reviewer has confirmed the license is survivable for inclusion. I am confused what else could be a "final tick". — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 21:15, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Oversight emails
Berrely, a few minutes ago you sent three emails to User:Oversight reporting a diff on the Main Page that does not require oversight. It appears that they came from RedWarn. Do you know why this happened? ST47 (talk) 22:51, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , oh my god I'm so sorry, I was testing the feature and thought it only sent the emails to me. Apologies for taking up your time. — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 22:55, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

"Under 18" user box - not necessarily a good idea
It's generally not a good idea for people to self-identify as minors on a mostly-adult place like Wikipedia. It also runs against some of the advice in Protecting children's privacy.

If the purpose of the userbox is to say "this person may not be as mature as other editors, please be patient" then changing the age to 20 might serve the same purpose without making it obvious the person is a minor. This would also compliment User vicenarian.

Perhaps a better user-box would be one based on User vicenarian with id and info.

Personally, I think the best solution is to discourage age-userboxes altogether for people who are under 20, but having an "under 20" user-box is much better - and safer - than having one that says "I am a minor." davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  16:17, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have removed the userbox from the age section and have nommed the userbox for deletion as I cannot find a way to adjust the wording to make it more suitable for an userbox, and to comply with the advice at WP:CHILD. I really made it as something for myself but noticed other users using it and thought it might be useful to place it on the UBX page. I do appreciate child protection reasons, and I agree it would be suitable to not encourage users to advertise that they are a minor. — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 18:58, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

New, simpler RfC to define trust levels for WikiLoop DoubleCheck
HI , I'm writing to let you know we have simplified the RfC on trust levels for the tool WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Please join and share your thoughts about this feature! We made this change after hearing users' comments on the first RfC being too complicated. I hope that you can participate this time around, giving your feedback on this new feature for WikiLoop DoubleCheck users. Thanks and see you around online, María Cruz MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:05, 19 November 2020 (UTC) If you would like to update your settings to change the wiki where you receive these messages, please do so here.

A cake for you

 * Thanks, I really appreciate it :D — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 20:14, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

User page DOS prompt
It's very very silly, and I love it! Nice one DBaK (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks :D — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 15:09, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Love the sandbox
Love what you did in your sandbox and on your user page.

Happy 35th anniversary to Microsoft Windows - it runs just as fast now as it did then!

I do have one question about your user page though, Does it run Linux? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  16:40, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have somehow managed to trick the system into running Windows on Debian, so in theory, it already it is running on Linux, Ignoring this mess, but all jokes aside I will always have the joy of using Windows as I did when did 10 years ago. (This post was made via Kali Linux) — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 16:53, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Rustam School


Hello, Berrely. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Rustam School".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 14:34, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Kid Bookie Edit
hi Berrely. I didn't change the content of the original post, I just re-wrote it in a more ordered fashion, I wasn't voicing any opinion only tidying up the language used and making the diction better. Please reverse your changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.117.74 (talk) 21:30, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Hereward House School edits
Hi Berrely, i removed and updated the information on the Hereward House School page because the Middle School Head Teacher has now become a transition teacher, see Hereward house website, and is no longer the head of middle school. And in the way of sports, Hereward House no longer offer hockey during the pandemic because the Hockey Club, is not open. Instead the have Cricket at the Astroturf in swiss cottage and play tag rugby at Hampstead Heath. I would appreciate it if the information that was changed back from what I wrote was added back. SHANNON13ALB (talk) 10:32, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi there, I reverted the edit as you did not cite a source to backup the removal, but now that you have, feel free to add it back. — Yours, Berrely  • Talk∕Contribs 16:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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