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.sj@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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