As far as I remember, yes—the rate of account creation, making more than
one edit, and the percentage of unreverted edits was higher than in other
methods. I think this is a spectacular result and a completely unexpected
source for the new editors.



On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:47 AM Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> These updates keep getting better.  (I left out the board updates from my
> recent thanks for regular newsletters lifting all of our boats :)
>
> I realize this is the smallest footnote of a long and significant update,
> but: does this mean *3% of donors* who saw a thank-you note inviting them
> to edit went on to make an account and at least one unreverted edit?  3% of
> all donors is almost as many new editors as we get each year.  That's
> spectacular, staggering, superb.  Let's please see how this scales in
> various dimensions.
>
> W♥, SJ
>
> We heard from the Advancement team about donor thank-you page changes
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Newcomer_experience_projects#Scaling_the_new_donor_Thank_you_page_to_English_Wikipedia>,
>> which invited donors to edit and yielded 4,398 new user accounts being
>> created [8
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Newcomer_experience_projects#Scaling_the_new_donor_Thank_you_page_to_English_Wikipedia>].
>>
>>
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