The Growth Team formed in July 2018 to support the Wikimedia Foundation's long-term goal of "Knowledge Equity" through the Audiences department's "New Content" program. The "Knowledge Equity" goal and the "New Content" program are about building strong communities that make diverse knowledge available to people all over the world. One critical pathway toward those goals is through engaging new contributors in Wikimedia projects. But because of the cultural and technical skills needed to productively contribute to the projects, very few people who begin to contribute continue to do so in the days and weeks after their initial involvement. The Growth Team's objective is to address this problem through software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects, starting with Wikipedias.
Our maintenance and code review guide is defined below
| Level/Area | Bug triaging | Development | Code review |
| Active development | Yes with prioritization | Lead by Product Manager with Engineering and UX resources | Per Patch |
| Active maintenance | Yes with prioritization | Some bug fixing and small features | Per Patch |
| Passive maintenance | Yes with prioritization | Fix urgent items that affect a large number of users and need to be unbroken immediately. | Yes but not prioritized |
Maintenance responsibilities
Section last updated 2023-10-13.
Actively Maintained Projects
Projects that Growth team is providing active development and maintenance support to. These are projects that have an dedicated engineering and product resources working on them.
| Project | Maintenance level | Notes |
| GrowthExperiments | Active Development | For both frontend and backend. View more about the project here. |
| Link recommendation/Add-link | Active Development | For the API, the application, the kubernetes deployment, and integration with MediaWiki via GrowthExperiments.Training of datasets is done by Machine Learning team. View more about the project here |
| MediaWiki-extensions-CommunityConfiguration | Active Development | |
Passively Maintained Projects
Projects that Growth team has no capacity to maintain and are looking for new ownership or have transferred ownership to another team and are listed here for historical reference. These projects don't have any dedicated resources behind them but are available for new owners who see a future in them and would like to take up the work of developing and maintaining them. Bugs and issues coming up on this projects will ONLY receive attention if the issue is urgent, affects a large number of users and needs to be unbroken immediately.
| Project | Maintenance level | Notes |
| Thanks | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed |
| StructuredDiscussions | Passive Maintenance | Being undeployed. |
| Notifications | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed. |
| WikiLove | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed. |
| MediaWiki-extensions-GuidedTour | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed. |
| MediaWiki-extensions-NewUserMessage | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed. |
| MediaWiki-extensions-NewUserActions | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed. |
| MediaWiki-extensions-NewUserNotif | Passive Maintenance | New owner needed. |
| MediaWiki-Watchlist | Passive Maintenance | New Owner Needed |
Formerly Maintained Projects
Projects that we used to at least passively maintain, and that now have been taken over by other owners.
| Project | Notes |
| MediaWiki-Recent-changes | Now owned by Moderator-Tools-Team |
| MediaWiki-extensions-ORES | Now owned by Machine Learning Team |