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Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse celebrates one month of being open! This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse. Hosts & community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier, exploring mediation processes for troubling guests, and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse.

• First month metrics report an average of 30 new editors visiting the Teahouse each week. Approximately 30 new editors participate in the Teahouse each week, by way of asking questions and making guest profiles. An average of six new questions and four new profiles are made each day. We'd love to hear your ideas about how we can spread the word about the Teahouse to more new editors.
• Teahouse has many regulars. Like any great teahouse, our Teahouse has a 61% return rate of guests, who come back to ask additional questions and to also help answer others' questions. Return guests cite the speedy response rate of hosts and the friendly, easy to understand responses by the hosts and other participants as the main reasons for coming back for another cup o' tea!
• Early metrics on retention. It's still too early to draw conclusions about the Teahouse's impact on new editor retention, but, early data shows that 38% of new editors who participate at the Teahouse are still actively editing Wikipedia 2-4 weeks later, this is compared with 7% from a control group of uninvited new editors who showed similar first day editing activity. Additional metrics can be found on the Teahouse metrics page.
• Nine new hosts welcomed to the Teahouse. Nine new hosts have been welcomed to the Teahouse during month one:
  Mono, Tony1, Worm That Turned, Writ Keeper, and Nathan2055
  . Welcome to the Teahouse gang, folks!
• Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is a really nice way to make new editors feel welcome.

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How can I determine if a Flicker photo has the correct license for

? ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 14:05, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Upload/Flickr. JohnCD (talk) 14:11, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hey! Sorry about that. I probably won't be very active until Monday. After that I'll be getting in a more stabe schedule so I can put more time in. Thanks! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 10:51, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Yay! Awesome. I understand life can be hectic, for sure. Thanks for letting me know!

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Userboxes

Ok all Userboxes are approved--

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Hello,i´m the This user i´m trying to request that remove the protection to my talk page,i want back to edit on the english Wikipedia, for request my unblock,that i need much, want have a new chance,again.Someone said me:”you never back”,but i have faith that somebody unblock me,please help to the unblock me,thank´s you 201.220.233.206 (talk) 20:13, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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I am trying to make a welcome template for

. I made the below with this template
{{Message_box |id = |halign = |malign = |backgroundcolor = aliceblue |image = Ballerina-icon.jpg |heading = <big>Invitation to join [[WP:DANCE|WikiProject Dance]]!</big> |message = Hello {{PAGENAME}}! I have noticed your contributions to dance articles and would like to invite you to [[wp:DANCE|WikiProject Dance]], a WikiProject developed to improve dance related articles. Please join us! <br/>~~~~ }}

WikiProject Dance, a WikiProject developed to improve dance related articles. Please join us! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 18:36, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

My question is how do I make the picture bigger? Thanks in advance! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 18:36, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, the Message box is

hard coded to use 45 pixels as its image height, so you cannot exactly vary the size of the image. Perhaps the below ombox version of your template is to your liking? Image size can be set trough the image itself. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs}

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WikiProject Dance, a WikiProject developed to improve dance related articles. Please join us! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 18:36, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

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After I got help with a WikiProject Dance welcome template (see above) I moved it to {{User:ReelAngelGirl/Template/WelcomeWPDance}}. How do I make the signature appear for whoever places it? This one also needs it. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance/Invitation}}. Thanks! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 13:52, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

You can use the the <includeonly></includeonly> tags for this. (See

WP:Includeonly

). Anything between these tags will only be "translated" in case the template is substituted. For example, if you were to add <includeonly>~~~~</includeonly> and then substitute the template using {{Subst:User:ReelAngelGirl/Template/WelcomeWPDance}} it would replace the tilde's with the signature of the user placing the template.

An example of the (easy) template code can be found at

template:signature. Just edit that page to see an example of the code used in the template. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs}

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The Signpost: 23 April 2012

I thought you might like to know there's a spelling error on your user page:

"I mostly edit spelling, punctuation, and grammer ..."

...should be:

"I mostly edit spelling, punctuation, and grammar ..."

Thought you'd like to know....

Woz2 (talk) 10:21, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm much better at spotting grammar then actually writing with it. :) Thank for the laugh! ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 12:14, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome! Everyone is the same. I always have to ask a "fresh pair of eyes" to proof read my writing. Cheers! Woz2 (talk) 12:19, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hi! Welcome to the third edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse reaches two month mark. The Teahouse has been live on English Wikipedia for two months now and evidence of the project's impact is beginning to show. Thank you to the hosts and Wikipedians who have helped make the Teahouse the valuable place for new editor's to seek help and feel welcome.
• April metrics report has been posted on meta! Some relevant metrics from April’s report include:

• In April, Teahouse averaged 45 questions per week.
• An average of 20 new editors visiting for the first time were served at the Teahouse, in addition to repeat guests.

• Many guests are repeat visitors: the average guest asks 1.5 questions and 22% of guests ask more than one question.

• Reports show that the Teahouse is having a positive impact on editor engagement! Comparing a sample of 75 new editors who participate in the Teahouse with a control group (of equivalent size and similar first-day editing activity) shows:

• New editors who participate in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles than the uninvited control group.
• New editor participants also make an average six times more global edits.
• Average Teahouse participants add 26 times more bytes of content that survive on Wikipedia (meaning content that isn't reverted or deleted) than the uninvited control group.

• More Teahouse participants remain active on Wikipedia at least 10 days later. Among the 224 editors in our three experimental groups, 28 percent of new editors who participate in the Teahouse were still active on Wikipedia at least ten days later, compared with 12 percent who received an invitation but didn't actively participate in the Teahouse, and only 5 percent from a similar uninvited control group.
• Teahouse visibility is a challenge, as we try to make the Teahouse visible to new editors, invitation has been the the main way of informing new editors about the Teahouse, and while that is a powerful tool, many new editors go uninvited. Input on Teahouse link placement is welcome! (Join in on the conversation here.)
• Want to know how you can lend a hand at the Teahouse? Become a host! Learn more about what makes the Teahouse different than other help spaces on Wikipedia and see how you can help new editors by visiting
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We have created a brief survey intended to help us understand the experiences and impressions of veteran editors who have participated on the Teahouse. You are being selected to participate in our survey because you edited the Teahouse

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Hey ReelAngelGirl! I have a question (a good question) to ask and I'd love if you could email me if you are comfortable doing so: sstierch at wikimedia.org I hope you can :)

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Thank you!

	Teahouse Barnstar
	I, Sarah, hereby award you, ReelAngelGirl, the Teahouse Barnstar for your valued participation in the Sarah (talk ) 00:36, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!

• Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!

• What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
• ....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
• Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement

• 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
• Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
• New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.

• Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
• New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:

• Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
• Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
• Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
• Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

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Hi ReelAngelGirl. I hope you are doing well. I noticed you haven't been that active in the Teahouse for quite sometime. No problem, of course! I do hope things are going well for you in other areas of Wikipedia, and offline as well. I have taken the liberty of moving your profile to the

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Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
• More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
• Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
• New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
• Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at
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Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse serves over 700 new editors in six months on Wikipedia! Since February 27, 741 new editors have participated at the Teahouse. The Q&A board and the guest intro pages are more active than ever.

• Automatic invites are doing the trick: 50% more new editors visiting each week. Ever since HostBot's automated invite trial phase began we've seen a boost in new editor participation. Automating a baseline set of invitations also allows Teahouse hosts to focus on serving hot cups of help to guests, instead of spending countless hours inviting.
• Guests to the Teahouse continue to edit more & interact more with other community members than non-Teahouse guests according to six month metrics. Teahouse guests make more than twice the article edits and edit more talk pages than other new editors.
• New host process implemented which encourages anyone to get started as a Teahouse host in a few easy steps. Stop by the hosts page and become a Teahouse host today!
• Host lounge renovations nearing completion. Working closely with Teahouse hosts, we've made some major renovations to the Teahouse Host Lounge - the main hangout and resource space for hosts. Learn more about the improvements here.

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