The new landing page proposal is a series of video conferences held with the WMF Growth Team in 2022–2023 as a result of the new page patrol open letter. The topic of discussion is to create software that gives brand new users trying to make an article from scratch a better experience.

The team[edit]

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

List of meetings[edit]

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

Kudpung's ideas[edit]

Account creation successful

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.

Your first article

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

Article wizard

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).
- 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.

Sdkb's ideas[edit]

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

Enterprisey's ideas[edit]

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

Current new user flow[edit]

Create account page
Survey
Main page, with a popup pointing at Special:Homepage
Special:Homepage, with a popup that says "welcome to your homepage"

Clicking the email verification link also directs to Special:Homepage