Hey all,
For those of you following the "Getting Started" project we're working on in E3,[1] we made the following updates today...
1. We disabled the A/B split test, so all new users on English Wikipedia will see the latest version of Special:GettingStarted after registration. Dario and I are working on quantitative analysis about the success of this new version, and I have some qualitative analysis of the kinds of edits being made via the new version nearly ready to post. 2. Echo, the notifications feature, isn't yet deployed to English Wikipedia, but we have finished up building notifications for welcoming newly-registered people, and invite them to either make their first edit or keep going, by visiting the task list at GettingStarted. (You can't yet test these on MediaWiki.org, since GettingStarted is not deployed there. Let me know if you're interested in hearing more about these or want to try them out.)