Wikipedia:New pages patrol/New landing page proposal

The new landing page proposal is a series of video conferences held with the WMF Growth Team in 2022–2023 as a result of the new page patrol open letter. The topic of discussion is to create software that gives brand new users trying to make an article from scratch a better experience.

The team

 * User:BusterD - project lead (Jan 2023–Present)
 * User:Kudpung - project lead (Oct 2022–Dec 2022)
 * User:Novem Linguae - created this summary document

List of meetings

 * 2022-12-09:
 * 2023-01-19:

Account creation successful

 * A page to be displayed after a new user registers, perhaps after the survey
 * Mockup: User:Kudpung/New LP
 * This looks similar to New user landing page, but is different. We want to insert it into the "account creation successful" flow, not the "non-autoconfirmed user tried to create article in mainspace" flow.
 * Approximate # of pages to be created from wireframes: 1
 * Will have popup tooltips that need to be programmed in JavaScript. See screenshot for popups.

Your first article

 * New "your first article" page
 * Mockup: User:Kudpung/YFA, reading time about 6 minutes
 * To replace: Help:Your first article, reading time about 40 minutes
 * Approximate # of pages to be created from wireframes: None. page exists at User:Kudpung/YFA

Article wizard

 * New "Article wizard" page
 * Mockup: TBD
 * To replace: Article Wizard, which replaced Article wizard/version1
 * Approximate # of pages to be created from wireframes: 10?
 * Will be truly interactive. The current wizard is merely a click-through check list. It offers no help or advice for building a first article page and is therefore a misleading misnomer.
 * Will have popup tooltips that need to be programmed in JavaScript and other conditional features probably using JS.
 * Will use a library of up to around 60 thematic article templates (Template:Article templates).
 * These were created on a grant, ostensibly for use at editathons
 * These are based on a previous template that was frequently used by an older version of Wizard
 * These use standard page elements to choose from, in the right layout and order, appropriate infoboxes, and placeholders for images
 * Their talk pages could additionally be preprepared with the appropriate BLP warnings and Wikiproject banners.
 * The templates could also include popup tooltips whose code would be automatically removed when the draft is saved.
 * The new Wizard would be an indispensable tool for onboarding creators of their first article.
 * It is not to be confused with mentoring schemes.
 * It will greatly enhance a new creator's UX and encourage user retention.
 * In doing so, it addresses the Foundation's goals, but eliminates the creation of as many articles as possible with disregard to the quality.
 * It therefore reduces the burden on NPP and AfC and the number of disenchanted new users.

Sdkb's ideas

 * User:Sdkb/sandbox/Vision for a better Article Wizard

Enterprisey's ideas

 * Enterprisey has expressed interest in making a prototype. Will place here if/when it is created.

Current new user flow
Clicking the email verification link also directs to Special:Homepage
 * 1) Create account page
 * 2) Survey
 * 3) Main page, with a popup pointing at Special:Homepage
 * 4) Special:Homepage, with a popup that says "welcome to your homepage"

Pages where this project has been discussed

 * Growth/Article creation for new editors
 * New pages patrol/New landing page proposal/Today's walkthrough of new article creation
 * Growth/Article creation for new editors
 * New pages patrol/New landing page proposal/Today's walkthrough of new article creation