• Create a simple system that guides new users into interactive support for creating their first article.

• Benefits; familiarisation of article PAGs and how to apply them. Reduction in the workload at NPP.

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

• 2022-12-09: Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features § Meeting details
• 2023-01-19: Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features § Reminder about upcoming meeting

• A page to be displayed after a new user registers, perhaps after the survey
• Mockup: User:Kudpung/New LP
• This looks similar to Wikipedia: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.

• 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

• New "Article wizard" page
• Mockup: TBD
• To replace: Wikipedia:Article Wizard, which replaced Wikipedia: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). Special:PrefixIndex/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.

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

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

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"

Clicking the email verification link also directs to Special:Homepage

• Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features § Newcomer experience + new article creation
• Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 44 § h-WP/WMF - WP Development approval process? NPP/New Article changes-20230105092700
• mw:Growth/Article creation for new editors (and talk)
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/New landing page proposal/Today's walkthrough of new article creation

• mw:Article Creation Workflow/Landing System – Old idea for an information page that we like, is the inspiration for some of the ideas above
• mw:Extension:ArticleCreationWorkflow – Intercepts non-autoconfirmed editors trying to make pages in mainspace
  • Wikipedia:New user landing page – What is displayed to non-autoconfirmed users trying to make pages in mainspace
• mw:Extension:GrowthExperiments – Intercepts newly created accounts
  • Special:Homepage – Added as a tab to the user and user talk pages. is a "dashboard" for new users, giving them ideas for tasks to do and connecting them with a mentor.
• Wikipedia:Article wizard – Information page