Hey all,

Today we deployed a new version of the onboarding UX we've been working on for some time, using GettingStarted and GuidedTour. This is in "silent" mode right now, and on Monday we'll be flipping the switch to deliver it for 50% of new signups on English Wikipedia, as part of an A/B test.

To see what this looks like, just add ?gettingStartedReturn=true to any link on enwiki, like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lubarsch?gettingStartedReturn=true for what it looks like on an editable page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?gettingStartedReturn=true for what it looks like on a page new users can't.

As our specification describes,[1] this test version with calls to action will be delivered automatically to new users when they are redirected back to where they were prior to signup. The control in our A/B test will be sending all new users through Special:GettingStarted. You can find out more about our hypotheses regarding this test on Meta.[2]

I'd appreciate any feedback people might have. A list of the current things I want to see updated before Monday are on our publicly-viewable project management tool, Trello.[3]

Many thanks!

1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed

2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:OB6

3. https://trello.com/c/k4GksP18

Steven Walling,

Product Manager

https://wikimediafoundation.org/