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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.16</span> <span>2 October 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2_October_2023-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-7_September_2023" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#7_September_2023"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.17</span> <span>7 September 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-7_September_2023-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-11_August_2023" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#11_August_2023"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.18</span> <span>11 August 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-11_August_2023-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-28_July_2023" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#28_July_2023"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.19</span> <span>28 July 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-28_July_2023-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-7_July_2023" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#7_July_2023"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.20</span> <span>7 July 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-7_July_2023-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-21_June_2023" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#21_June_2023"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.21</span> <span>21 June 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-21_June_2023-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-12_June_2023" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#12_June_2023"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.22</span> <span>12 June 2023</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="wmf-engineering-project-box-data"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="row">Group:</th> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing" title="Special:MyLanguage/Editing">Editing</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Editing" class="mw-redirect" title="Editing"> </a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Start:</th> <td>2022-10-01</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Team members:</th> <td><a href="/wiki/User:DChan_(WMF)" title="User:DChan (WMF)">David Chan</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:DLynch_(WMF)" title="User:DLynch (WMF)">David Lynch</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:EAkinloose_(WMF)" title="User:EAkinloose (WMF)">Esther Akinloose</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Mvolz_(WMF)" title="User:Mvolz (WMF)">Marielle Volz</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:RYasmeen_(WMF)" title="User:RYasmeen (WMF)">Rummana Yasmeen</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:NAyoub_(WMF)" title="User:NAyoub (WMF)">Nicolas Ayoub</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)" title="User:Trizek (WMF)">Benoît Evellin</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Backlog:</th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/editcheck/" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/editcheck/">#EditCheck</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Lead:</th> <td><a href="/wiki/User:ESanders_(WMF)" title="User:ESanders (WMF)">Ed Sanders</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Management:</th> <td><a href="/wiki/User:PPelberg_(WMF)" title="User:PPelberg (WMF)">Peter Pelberg</a> (product), <a href="/wiki/User:VPuffetMichel_(WMF)" title="User:VPuffetMichel (WMF)">Valerie Puffet-Michel</a> (engineering)</td> </tr> <tr class="mw-empty-elt"> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In the 2024–2025 <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Fiscal_year" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Fiscal year">fiscal year</a>, the Editing Team is working on a set of improvements for the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor" title="Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor">visual editor</a> to help new volunteers understand and follow some of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">policies and guidelines</a> necessary to make constructive changes to Wikipedia projects. </p><p>Below, you can find information about the goals of this project, the history that has informed it, and why the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Product" title="Wikimedia Product">Wikimedia Foundation's Product Department</a> is prioritizing this work. </p><p>Watch <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Special:MyLanguage/Editing team/Community Conversations">Editing team/Community Conversations</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Editing team/Community Conversations"> </a></span> for scheduled meetings about this project. </p> <div style="float:right"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=watch"><span class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-progressive" role="button">Watch this page!</span></a></span></div> <p>Several features are available within Edit Check: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_check#Reference_check" title="Help:Edit check">Reference check</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_check#Link_check_and_Reference_reliability" title="Help:Edit check">Link check and Reference reliability</a></li></ul> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Objectives" data-mw-thread-id="h-Objectives"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Objectives"></span>Objectives<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Objectives"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Objectives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Newcomers and Junior Contributors from Sub-Saharan Africa will feel safe and confident enough while editing to publish changes they are proud of and that experienced volunteers consider useful.</li> <li>Moderators at the English and French Wikipedias will notice improvements in the quality of edits newcomers are making and be motivated to configure how Edit Check presents policies to them.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Status" data-mw-thread-id="h-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Status"></span>Status<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Status"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="22_November_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-22_November_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-22_November_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-11-22">22 November 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-22_November_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 22 November 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm/368px--EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="368" height="207" data-durationhint="188" data-mwtitle="EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/da/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm/EditCheck_paste_check_technical_overview_2024-11.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/></video></span><figcaption>Paste Check Technical Overview</figcaption></figure> <p>The technical foundation the Paste Check user experience depends on is now in place. </p><p>Specifically, we have introduced a way for to detect <i>where</i> the text people are pasting is coming from. </p><p>This new capability unlocks the potential for volunteers to do things like: </p> <ul><li>Suppress the Paste Check when people are pasting text from another Wikipedia article or Google Docs</li> <li>Customize the Paste Check message when people are pasting content from a specific source</li> <li>Show a tool like Citoid when someone pastes content from a source volunteers have deemed to be reliable</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="7_November_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-7_November_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-7_November_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-11-07">7 November 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-7_November_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 7 November 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/359px--PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="359" height="202" data-durationhint="244" data-mwtitle="PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm/PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/></video></span><figcaption>Paste Check mobile user experience walkthrough.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Paste Check</i> </p><p>Here is a <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm" class="extiw" title="commons:File:PasteCheck-MobileWalkthrough-7Nov.webm">4-minute video recording</a> that walks through the proposed user experience for Paste Check. </p><p>We hope this helps you all help us <a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20241107205700-Paste_Check" title="Talk:Edit check">answering the open questions</a> we are thinking through. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1_November_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-1_November_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-1_November_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-11-1">1 November 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-1_November_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1 November 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paste_Check_Mockup_(mobile).png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Mockup showing how Paste Check might appear to people pasting text into the visual editor." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Paste_Check_Mockup_%28mobile%29.png/220px-Paste_Check_Mockup_%28mobile%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="477" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Paste_Check_Mockup_%28mobile%29.png/330px-Paste_Check_Mockup_%28mobile%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Paste_Check_Mockup_%28mobile%29.png/440px-Paste_Check_Mockup_%28mobile%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1179" data-file-height="2556"/></a><figcaption>Mockup showing how Paste Check might appear to people pasting text into the visual editor.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Next Check</i> </p><p>The Editing Team is actively working on a new Edit Check: <b>Paste Check</b>. </p><p>Paste Check will prompt people pasting text into an article to confirm whether they did or did not write the content they are attempting to add. </p><p>Now that the general scaffolding of the user experience is in place, we need help answering some open questions. </p><p>You can <a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20241107205700-Paste_Check" title="Talk:Edit check">find the questions we need help answering on the talk page</a>. </p><p><i>Note: thank you to <a href="/wiki/User:Pikne" title="User:Pikne">@Pikne</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Lectrician1" title="User:Lectrician1">Lectrician1</a> who helped inspire this Check.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="23_August_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-23_August_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-23_August_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-8-23">23 August 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-23_August_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 23 August 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Edit Check work is ongoing in a few areas: </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Selena Deckelmann Demo'ing Reference Check at 2024 Wikimania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png/372px-Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png" decoding="async" width="372" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png/558px-Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png/744px-Selena_Deckelmann_Demo%27ing_Reference_Check.png 2x" data-file-width="1874" data-file-height="932"/></a><figcaption>Reference Check demo at Wikimania (2024) by <a href="/wiki/User:SDeckelmann-WMF" title="User:SDeckelmann-WMF">Selena Deckelmann</a>, Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Product and Technology Officer</figcaption></figure> <ol><li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341308" class="extiw" title="phab:T341308">T341308</a> - Refining the user experience for showing multiple Edit Checks within a single edit</li> <li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360591" class="extiw" title="phab:T360591">T360591</a> - Developing an API to increase the speed and ease with which new Edit Checks and Suggested Edits can be introduced within/alongside the visual editor.</li> <li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364505" class="extiw" title="phab:T364505">T364505</a> - Creating a UI framework to ensure people experience new Edit Checks and Suggested Edits as part of a common language</li> <li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368274" class="extiw" title="phab:T368274">T368274</a> - Researching the feasibility of using a large language model to detect peacock behavior within the edits people are making.</li></ol> <p>Looking ahead, the Editing Team will continue developing Edit Check during the 2024-2025 fiscal year. This work will support the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs#Draft_Key_Results" class="extiw" title="metawiki:Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2024-2025/Product & Technology OKRs">Wiki Experiences Objective</a>. </p><p>In other Edit Check news: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:SDeckelmann-WMF" title="User:SDeckelmann-WMF">Selena Deckelmann</a> shared a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/live/wYc5gnZfnpU?si=y_qBy92nUmL3yAkj&t=32886">demo of Reference Check</a> at <a href="https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Wikimania" class="extiw" title="wikimania:2024:Wikimania">Wikimania</a></li> <li>After an informal demo with Polish users present at Wikimania, <a class="external text" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Kawiarenka/Og%C3%B3lne&oldid=74591006#W%C5%82%C4%85czmy_%E2%80%9EEdit_check%E2%80%9D_%E2%80%93_narz%C4%99dzie_przypominaj%C4%85ce_o_uzupe%C5%82nieniu_%C5%BAr%C3%B3de%C5%82">volunteers at pl.wiki</a> decided to enable the Reference Check.</li> <li>Following Wikimania as well, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Deploying_Edit_Check_on_this_wiki" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)">volunteers at en.wiki are discussing</a> deploying Reference Check. <ul><li><i>Note: if you are interested in enabling the Reference Check at your wiki, please ping User:Trizek (WMF) or User:PPelberg (WMF), or contact us on <a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check" title="Talk:Edit check">our talk page</a>.</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1_July_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-1_July_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-1_July_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-07-01">1 July 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-1_July_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1 July 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This Wednesday (3 July) from 17:30 until 18:50 UTC, the <a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations#Next_Conversation" title="Editing team/Community Conversations">Editing Team will host the next Community Conversation</a>. </p><p>Wednesday's conversation will be focused on the following Edit Check-related topics: </p> <ol><li><b>Discussing</b> the user experience for Paste Check. This next Edit Check we'll be introducing is meant to help newcomers adding new content unknowingly make a copyright violation.</li> <li><b>Reviewing</b> the state of the Edit Check proejct. <i>What Checks are available at what wikis? What new Check are being planned? More broadly, what strategy is guiding the Edit Check in this coming year? Etc.</i></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21_June_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-21_June_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-21_June_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-06-21">21 June 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-21_June_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 21 June 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On Tuesday (18 June), Reference Check <a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Edit_check/Deployment_status&diff=prev&oldid=6588000">became available by default</a> at all Wikipedias except bn, de, en, hi, id, nl, pl, and ru.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="11_June_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-11_June_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-11_June_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-06-11">11 June 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-11_June_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 11 June 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Link_Check_Screenshot_(desktop).png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Screenshot showing the feedback people will receive when attempting to link to a blocked domain within the visual editor." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Link_Check_Screenshot_%28desktop%29.png/298px-Link_Check_Screenshot_%28desktop%29.png" decoding="async" width="298" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Link_Check_Screenshot_%28desktop%29.png/447px-Link_Check_Screenshot_%28desktop%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Link_Check_Screenshot_%28desktop%29.png/596px-Link_Check_Screenshot_%28desktop%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1716" data-file-height="902"/></a><figcaption>Feedback people will receive when attempting to link to a blocked domain within the visual editor.</figcaption></figure> <p>Beginning Thursday (13 June), people who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor (desktop and mobile) will receive immediate feedback when they attempt to link to a domain a project has decided to block. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check#Link_check" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit check">Link Check</a> (as we are calling it) evaluates all external domains people attempt to link to against the following sources: </p> <ul><li>Local lists: <code>MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json</code> and <code>MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist</code></li> <li>Global list: <code>meta:Spam_blacklist</code></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="5_June_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-5_June_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-5_June_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-06-5">5 June 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-5_June_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 5 June 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_2" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/379px--EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="379" height="213" data-durationhint="66" data-mwtitle="EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm/EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AEditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm&lang=en&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr"/></video></span><figcaption>Technical demo showing what it could be like for Edit Checks to appear within/alongside the editable surface.</figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm" class="extiw" title="commons:File:EditCheck mid edit suggestions idea sketch 2024-05.webm">Demo: Edit Checks while actively editing</a></i> Currently, people have the potential to encounter Edit Checks in one of two moments while editing: </p> <ol><li>In the publishing flow, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edit_Check_demo_(mobile).webm" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Edit Check demo (mobile).webm">when people attempt to publish new content without a reference</a></li> <li>In Citoid, when people <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Reference Reliability Check MOBILE.png">attempt to cite a domain</a> that a project has deemed worthy of blocking</li></ol> <p>While presenting Checks in the moments above <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Reference_Check_A/B_Test">have proven effective</a>, for a while, volunteers and staff have been <a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Ideas" title="Edit check/Ideas">sharing ideas for Checks</a> that could appear while people are actively adding/changing content within the article. </p><p>With this <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EditCheck_mid_edit_suggestions_idea_sketch_2024-05.webm" class="extiw" title="commons:File:EditCheck mid edit suggestions idea sketch 2024-05.webm"><b>initial</b> <b>technical demo</b></a>, the Editing Team is exploring what it <i>could</i> be like for Checks to: </p> <ol><li><i>Appear</i> within/alongside the editable document, in the moment when people make a change that causes a check to be activated</li> <li><i>Respond</i> when people make a change that impacts the Check that they activated</li></ol> <p><i>What do you think about this idea? What questions/concerns/ideas/etc. does it bring to mind?</i> </p><p>Please share what you think <a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check#Edit_Checks_as_you_are_typing" title="Talk:Edit check">on the talk page</a>! </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="29_May_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-29_May_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-29_May_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-05-29">29 May 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-29_May_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 29 May 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Impact#Edit_Check_(References)_impact_report" title="Edit check/Impact">References check A/B report is now available</a>. Reference Check caused an increase in the quality of edits newcomers publish and did not cause any significant disruption. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="4_April_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-4_April_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-4_April_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-04-4">4 April 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-4_April_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 4 April 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Initial results of Edit Check A/B test (<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342930" class="extiw" title="phab:T342930">T342930</a>) have returned the following results: </p> <ul><li>Newcomers and junior contributors are 2.3 times more likely to add a new reference to a new content edit when edit check is available.</li> <li>No drastic decreases in edit completion and edit abandonment rate were observed.</li> <li>Edit check is especially impactful for newcomers and users on mobile.</li> <li>We observed a slight decrease to no changes in the edit quality where edit check was shown compared to where it was not.</li> <li>It does increase the proportion of new content edits with a reference that are reverted. We need to investigate impact further.</li></ul> <p>As a consequence, Edit Check was deployed as default on the A/B wikis. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="8_March_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-8_March_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-8_March_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-03-8">8 March 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-8_March_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 8 March 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Reference Reliability</b> </p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Reference Reliability (mobile)"><img alt="Reference Reliability (mobile)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png/67px-Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png" decoding="async" width="67" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png/101px-Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png/135px-Reference_Reliability_Check_MOBILE.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="1334"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Reference Reliability (mobile)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Reference Reliability (desktop)"><img alt="Reference Reliability (desktop)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png/120px-Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png/180px-Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png/240px-Reference_Reliability_Check_DESKTOP.png 2x" data-file-width="2246" data-file-height="1286"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Reference Reliability (desktop)</div> </li> </ul><p>On 7 March, the first iteration Reference Reliability check became available to everyone at all wikis, by default. </p><p>This means that whenever anyone attempts to cite a source that a project has blocked, they will be made aware directly within <a href="/wiki/Citoid" title="Citoid">Citoid</a> and prompted to try another source. </p><p>Where "blocked" on in this context means the domain someone is attempting to cite is lited on <code>MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist</code> or <code>MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json</code>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="23_February_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-23_February_2024-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-23_February_2024-Status"></span><time datetime="2024-02-23">23 February 2024</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-23_February_2024-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 23 February 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Active</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Reference Check deployments</b> - the first Edit Check (references) is now live at 22 wikis. <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345298" class="extiw" title="phab:T345298">The new set of wikis</a> is for <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342930" class="extiw" title="phab:T342930">an A/B test</a>. We will verify if users interact with the check and keep editing.</li> <li><b>Multi-Check</b> - Currently, Edit Check is configured to show people one piece of feedback, regardless if other feedback might be warranted. The design of the user experience is in progress to display multiple checks within a single edit.</li></ul> <p><i>Upcoming</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Reference Reliability</b> - Reference Reliability informs users if a source is listed under <code>MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist</code> or <code>MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json</code>. It will be deployed along with the A/B test of Reference Check.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1_December_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-1_December_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-1_December_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-12-1">1 December 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-1_December_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1 December 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Active</i> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A screenshot showing a newcomer at ha.wiki accompanying the new content they were adding with a reference after mw:Edit check prompted them to do so." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png/380px-Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png" decoding="async" width="380" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png/570px-Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png/760px-Reference_check_at_ha.wiki.png 2x" data-file-width="1810" data-file-height="1098"/></a><figcaption>Newcomer at ha.wiki accompanying the new content they were adding with a reference after Edit check prompted them.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Reference Check deployments</b> - the first Edit Check (references) is now live at 11 wikis. You can see the kinds of edits people are making by visiting the links to Special:Recent changes listed on <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Deployment_status" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Deployment status">Edit check/Deployment status</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Deployment_status" title="Edit check/Deployment status"> </a></span>. Additional deployments to ar.wiki and vi.wiki are <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352355" class="extiw" title="phab:T352355">scheduled for the week of 4 December</a>.</li> <li><b>Community Call</b> - 10 French-speaking volunteers joined members of the Editing Team for a community call on Tuesday, 28 November. <i><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Special:MyLanguage/Editing team/Community Conversations">See a summary of the conversation here</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Editing team/Community Conversations"> </a></span>.</i></li> <li><b>Reference Reliability</b> - to support the next Edit Check (reference reliability), the team is <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349261" class="extiw" title="phab:T349261">developing an API that will enable Citoid to provide people feedback</a> when the domain they are attempting to cite exists on <code>MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist</code> or <code>MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json</code>.</li></ul> <p><i>Upcoming</i> </p> <ul><li><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Early_sketch_of_multi-check_user_experience.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A mockup showing what a user experience that presents people with multiple Edit Checks within a single edit could look like." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Early_sketch_of_multi-check_user_experience.png/315px-Early_sketch_of_multi-check_user_experience.png" decoding="async" width="315" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Early_sketch_of_multi-check_user_experience.png/473px-Early_sketch_of_multi-check_user_experience.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Early_sketch_of_multi-check_user_experience.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="288"/></a><figcaption>An early mockup of what the multi-check user experience could look like.</figcaption></figure><b>User script</b> - Edit check will soon be available via a <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/JavaScript" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/JavaScript">user script</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Interface/JavaScript" title="Manual:Interface/JavaScript"> </a></span>. This will make it easier for volunteers to experiment with Edit check regardless of if and how it is deployed at the wiki they are wanting to assess it on.</li> <li><b>Multi-Check</b> - Currently, Edit Check is configured to show people one piece of feedback, regardless if other feedback might be warranted. The team is in the early stages of designing a user experience that will accommodate presenting people with multiple checks within a single edit.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="16_November_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-16_November_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-16_November_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-11-16">16 November 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-16_November_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 16 November 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Screenshots showing four different potential design directions for the desktop user experience of the next Edit Check: Reference Reliability." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg/319px-Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg" decoding="async" width="319" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg/479px-Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg/638px-Edit_check_Reference_Reliability_Explorations.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1792" data-file-height="1216"/></a><figcaption>Edit Check (Reference Reliability) design explorations</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Next feature: Reference Reliability</i> </p><p>The first Edit Check (<code>editcheck-references</code>) prompted people adding new content to include a reference when they did not do so themselves. </p><p>The <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276857" class="extiw" title="phab:T276857">next Edit Check</a> will prompt people to replace a source when they attempt to cite a domain a project has deemed to be spam. </p><p>The Editing Team sees this as a first step towards a potential future where editing interfaces can use the consensus stored in pages like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RSP" class="extiw" title="w:WP:RSP">w:WP:RSP</a> to offer people feedback about the source they are attempting to cite. </p><p>The designs we are exploring are pictured here. </p><p><b>We now need your help:</b> <i>Which approach do you favor most?</i> <i>What about that approach do you appreciate?</i> <i>What questions/concerns do these approaches bring to your mind?</i> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Edit_check#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20231116154600-Next_check:_Reference_Reliability" title="Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Edit check">Please share what you think on the talk page!</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20231116154600-Next_check:_Reference_Reliability" title="Talk:Edit check"> </a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18_October_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-18_October_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-18_October_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-10-18">18 October 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-18_October_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 18 October 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A screenshot showing Special:RecentChanges filtered for edits Edit Check was activated within" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png/220px-Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png/330px-Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png/440px-Recent_Changes_filtered_for_Edit_Check_edits.png 2x" data-file-width="1706" data-file-height="1436"/></a><figcaption>Edit Check edits at <a class="external text" href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&tagfilter=editcheck-references-activated&limit=50&days=7&urlversion=2">ha.wiki</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Last Wednesday (11 October 2023), Edit Check became available within the desktop and mobile visual editor at an initial set of wikis: dag.wiki, ee.wiki, fat.wiki, gur.wiki, gpe.wiki, ha.wiki, kg.wiki, ln.wiki, tw.wiki </p><p>You can review the edits Edit Check was activated within by filtering Special:RecentChanges using the <code>editcheck-references-activated</code> tag. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2_October_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-2_October_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-2_October_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-10-2">2 October 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-2_October_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 2 October 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Edit check/False positives"><img alt="Screenshot showing the Edit Check false positive reporting page" resource="/wiki/File:Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png/250px-Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png/375px-Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png/500px-Edit_Check_false_positive_reporting.png 2x" data-file-width="1462" data-file-height="1872"/></a><figcaption>Edit Check false positive reporting page</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Reporting False Positives</i> </p><p>Ahead of the first iteration of Edit check being <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331947" class="extiw" title="phab:T331947">offered at an initial set of partner wikis</a>, there is a new page to report false positives: <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/False positives">Edit check/False positives</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Edit check/False positives"> </a></span>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/False positives">The page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Edit check/False positives"> </a></span> draws inspiration from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives">Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives</a>. It is designed to be an easy for people to: </p> <ol><li>Report an edit they think Edit Check should <b>NOT</b> have been activated within and</li> <li>Propose changes to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Configuration" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Configuration">how Edit Check is configured</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Configuration" title="Edit check/Configuration"> </a></span></li></ol> <p>We are curious to know what – if any – questions, concerns, and/or ideas <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/False positives">this new page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/False_positives" title="Edit check/False positives"> </a></span> brings to mind. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="7_September_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-7_September_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-7_September_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-9-7">7 September 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-7_September_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 7 September 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A screenshot showing Edit Check prompting someone to add a reference to a new paragraph they added to an en.wiki article." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png/265px-Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png" decoding="async" width="265" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png/398px-Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png/530px-Edit_Check_Screenshot-en.wiki.png 2x" data-file-width="1776" data-file-height="1412"/></a><figcaption>Edit Check in production (en.wiki)</figcaption></figure><p><i>Trying Edit Check in production</i> </p><p>As of today, anyone can try Edit Check by editing any Wikipedia page in the main namespace using VisualEditor. </p><p>To try Edit Check, append the following parameter to the URL of the page you would like to edit: <code>ecenable=1</code>. <i>E.g. <a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollof_rice?veaction=edit&ecenable=1">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollof_rice?veaction=edit&ecenable=1</a> </i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="11_August_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-11_August_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-11_August_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-8-11">11 August 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-11_August_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 11 August 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A bart chart showing the proportion of new content edits that include a reference, grouped by experience level" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png/273px-Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png" decoding="async" width="273" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png/410px-Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png/546px-Proportion_of_new_content_edits_that_include_a_reference.png 2x" data-file-width="886" data-file-height="549"/></a><figcaption>Proportion of new content edits that include a reference</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Baseline metrics</i> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A chart showing the proportion of new content edits reverted, grouped by user experience level" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png/275px-Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png" decoding="async" width="275" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png/413px-Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png/550px-Proportion_of_new_content_edits_reverted_by_user_experience_level.png 2x" data-file-width="1106" data-file-height="560"/></a><figcaption>Proportion of new content edits reverted by user experience level</figcaption></figure> <p>Two of the metrics the Editing Team is planning to use to evaluate the impact of the initial reference check are: </p> <ol><li>A decrease in the proportion of new content edits that are reverted</li> <li>An increase in the proportion of new content edits that include references</li></ol> <p>To help set targets for the two metrics named above, we recently <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332848" class="extiw" title="phab:T332848">completed a baseline analysis</a>. Here's some of what we learned: </p> <ul><li><b>Across all Wikipedias, new content edits that include a reference are <u>~2x less likely</u> to be reverted (6.2%) than edits that do not include a reference (11.5%)</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Across all Wikipedias, newcomers and junior editors are <u>less likely</u> to include a new reference with new content edits compared to more senior editors.</b> <ul><li>Of all the new content edits newcomers make across Wikipedias, 12% of these edits include a reference.</li> <li>Of all the new content edits people who have made >500 cumulative edits across Wikipedias, 26% of these edits edit include a reference</li></ul></li></ul> <p><a href="https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/mneisler/edit-check-references-2023/-/blob/main/edit_check_baseline_analysis.ipynb" class="extiw" title="gitlab:mneisler/edit-check-references-2023/-/blob/main/edit check baseline analysis.ipynb"><i>You can see per wiki breakdowns in the full report here.</i></a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="28_July_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-28_July_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-28_July_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-7-28">28 July 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-28_July_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 28 July 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Storing and show decline responses</i> </p><p>In March, <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check#3_March_2023" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check">we shared plans</a></b><span style="display:none"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#3_March_2023"> </a></span> to present people who decline to add a source when Edit Check prompts them to do so with a way to share why they made this decision. </p><p>This past week, <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341533#9042441" class="extiw" title="phab:T341533">we converged on how Edit Check will initially make these responses available</a> to experienced volunteers... </p><p>To start, the reason someone selects for <i>declining</i> to add a reference when Edit Check invites them to do so will get logged as an edit tag that is "appended" to that edit. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6651107">.mw-parser-output .note{background-position:left 7px top 50%;padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 40px;margin:0.5em 0;overflow:hidden;background-color:#f8f9fa;color:#333;background-repeat:no-repeat;border:1px solid #ddd}.mw-parser-output .note-inline{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .note-info{background-color:#eaf3ff;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#a3caff;padding-left:40px;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-reminder{background-color:#fff9ea;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/OOjs_UI_icon_lightbulb-yellow.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#fc3;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-warn{background-color:#fff9ea;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/OOjs_UI_icon_alert-warning.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#fc3;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-error{background-color:#fee7e6;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/OOjs_UI_icon_notice-destructive.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#c33;min-height:25px}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .note{background-color:transparent;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .note{background-color:transparent;color:inherit}}</style><div role="note" class="note note-info">The definitions for these yet-to-be defined tags will eventually be stored here: <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Tags" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Tags">Edit check/Tags</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Tags" title="Edit check/Tags"> </a></span>.</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="7_July_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-7_July_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-7_July_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-7-7">7 July 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-7_July_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 7 July 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Two new change tags</i> </p><p>This week, two new Edit Check-related <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Tags" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Tags">change tags</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Tags" title="Manual:Tags"> </a></span> became available that you can use to filter <a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Special:RecentChanges</a>. </p><p>These tags will help us collectively evaluate the extent to which the reference Edit Check increases the likelihood that people accompany the new content they're adding with a reference. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Tag </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Try it </th></tr> <tr> <td><code>editcheck-newreference</code> </td> <td>Edits made with the <i>visual editor</i> that involve people adding a <i>new</i> reference to an article in the main namespace. </td> <td>en.wiki, fr.wiki </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>editcheck-newcontent</code> </td> <td>Edits made with the <i>visual editor</i> that involve people adding new content to article in the main namespace </td> <td><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?hidebots=1&tagfilter=editcheck-newcontent&limit=500&days=30&userExpLevel__newcomer_color=c2&userExpLevel__experienced_color=c1&title=Special:RecentChanges&urlversion=2">en.wiki</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Modifications_r%C3%A9centes&days=30&hidebots=1&limit=500&tagfilter=editcheck-newcontent&urlversion=2&userExpLevel__experienced_color=c1&userExpLevel__newcomer_color=c2">fr.wiki</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Note: the logic that determine when the two tags get applied is <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/%2B/refs/heads/master/modules/editcheck/init.js" class="extiw" title="gerrit:plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/refs/heads/master/modules/editcheck/init.js">the same logic</a> that is used to decide whether people should be presented with the reference Edit Check.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21_June_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-21_June_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-21_June_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-6-21">21 June 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-21_June_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 21 June 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_3" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/220px--Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="391" data-durationhint="53" data-mwtitle="Edit_Check_demo_(mobile).webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Edit_Check_demo_(mobile).webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="270" data-height="480"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="406" data-height="720"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="608" data-height="1080"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9"" data-width="1080" data-height="1920"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="82" data-height="144"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="136" data-height="240"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="202" data-height="360"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm/Edit_Check_demo_%28mobile%29.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="202" data-height="360"/></video></span><figcaption>Reference Edit Check demo (mobile)</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Edit Check Prototype (mobile) ready</i> </p><p>A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/dbe9212625/wiki/Douglas_Adams">prototype for the first Edit Check</a> is ready! Now, we need your help identifying how it might need to be fixed and improved before being enabled in production as a beta feature. </p><p>You can find instructions for trying out the Edit Check prototype and sharing feedback about on the talk page: <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Edit_check#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20230621222200-Seeking_Feedback:_Edit_Check_Prototype" title="Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Edit check">Seeking Feedback: Edit Check Prototype</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20230621222200-Seeking_Feedback:_Edit_Check_Prototype" title="Talk:Edit check"> </a></span>. </p><p>For context, this first Edit Check that will prompt <i>newcomers</i> who are contributing <b>new content without</b> including a corresponding <b>reference</b> to consider doing so. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="12_June_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-12_June_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-12_June_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-6-12">12 June 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-12_June_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 12 June 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EditCheck-Reference-No.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A screenshot showing what people will see who ''decline'' to ad a citation when Edit Check invites them to do so." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/EditCheck-Reference-No.png/220px-EditCheck-Reference-No.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/EditCheck-Reference-No.png/330px-EditCheck-Reference-No.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/EditCheck-Reference-No.png/440px-EditCheck-Reference-No.png 2x" data-file-width="752" data-file-height="1336"/></a><figcaption>What people who ''decline'' to add a citation when Edit Check invites them to do so might see.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>First version</i> </p><p>The first version of Edit Check is almost ready for you all to try! </p><p>Within the next week, you can expect us to share a link to a <i>test wiki</i> where you can try the Edit Check prototype. </p><p>This first iteration will invite people who <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324730" class="extiw" title="phab:T324730">add more than 50 new characters to an article in the main namespace</a> to include a reference in the edit they're making, <i>IF</i> they have not already done so themselves. </p><p>In the meantime, you can see the kinds of edits EditCheck <i>currently</i> thinks warrant a reference, by filtering <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Recent_changes" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Recent changes">Recent changes</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes"> </a></span> using the newly-introduced <code>editcheck-references</code> tag. View the tag on <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?hidebots=1&tagfilter=editcheck-references&limit=500&days=30&title=Special:RecentChanges&urlversion=2">en.wiki</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Modifications_r%C3%A9centes&days=30&hidebots=1&limit=500&tagfilter=editcheck-references&urlversion=2">fr.wiki</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="3_March_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-3_March_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-3_March_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-3-3">3 March 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-3_March_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 3 March 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Informed by community conversations (still ongoing)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a series of technical and design investigations<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, during February the Editing Team became clear about the first version of Edit Check on mobile... </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A screenshot showing a dialog within the mobile visual editor that prompts people to add a reference when they do not do so on their own." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png/220px-Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="439" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png/330px-Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png/440px-Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png 2x" data-file-width="724" data-file-height="1444"/></a><figcaption>The initial version of the mobile Edit Check experience that will prompt people to add a reference.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>User Experience:</b> the first version of Edit Check will introduce a new step within the <i>mobile</i> visual editor's publishing workflow that people will see if/when they add new content <i>without</i> a reference. <i>Design for the desktop user experience is still underway. See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329579" class="extiw" title="phab:T329579">T329579</a>.</i></li> <li><b>Usability Testing:</b> to learn whether people understand and can intuitively navigate the mobile Edit Check workflow, we will soon begin a series of usability tests. <i>See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327356" class="extiw" title="phab:T327356">T327356</a>.</i></li> <li><b>Technical Investigation:</b> Edit Check will use a "transaction-based" approach for determining what new content is added within a given edit session. Work on developing a way to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_segmentation" class="extiw" title="en:Text segmentation">detect individual sentences</a> is ongoing in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324363" class="extiw" title="phab:T324363">T324363</a>.</li> <li><b>Initial Heuristic:</b> To start, the initial Edit Check heuristic will be relatively straightforward in so far as it will prompt people to decide whether the change they are making warrants a reference if/when they are adding a new paragraph and that paragraph does <i>not</i> already contain a reference. <i>See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324730" class="extiw" title="phab:T324730">T324730</a> and <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329988#8654867" class="extiw" title="phab:T329988">T329988#8654867</a>.</i></li></ul> <p>Next up: the Editing Team will be implementing the initial Edit Check heuristic (<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324730" class="extiw" title="phab:T324730">T324730</a>) and a corresponding <i>hidden</i> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Tags" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Tags">change tag</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Tags" title="Manual:Tags"> </a></span> (<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324733" class="extiw" title="phab:T324733">T324733</a>) so that we – volunteers and members of the Editing Team – can evaluate the extent to which the reference check heuristic is getting initiated in expected cases. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="27_January_2023" data-mw-thread-id="h-27_January_2023-Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-27_January_2023-Status"></span><time datetime="2023-1-27">27 January 2023</time><span data-mw-comment-end="h-27_January_2023-Status"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 27 January 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Work on Edit Check is underway! Below you will find an overview of what the <a href="/wiki/Editing_team" title="Editing team">Editing Team</a> is actively working on… </p> <ul><li><b>Community conversations</b>: Between October 2022 and January 2023, the Editing Team <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Special:MyLanguage/Editing team/Community Conversations">hosted seven community conversations</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Editing team/Community Conversations"> </a></span> to learn what contributing to Wikipedia has been like for people living in and from Sub-Saharan Africa. Next week, you can expect the team to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing_team/Community_Conversations#Findings" title="Special:MyLanguage/Editing team/Community Conversations">publish the findings from these conversations</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations#Findings" title="Editing team/Community Conversations"> </a></span> and how they will inform the work we do on this project.</li> <li><b>Initial Focus</b>: The first feature the team will be introducing is one that checks whether the <i>new</i> content people are attempting to add includes a reference. <i><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check#Strategy_and_Approach" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check">Learn more in the Strategy and Approach section</a></b><span style="display:none"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Strategy_and_Approach"> </a></span> below.</i></li> <li><b>Design</b>: The team is actively working on a proposal for what the mobile user experience for the first reference check could be like. In the coming weeks, we will be inviting volunteers to help us revise and refine these designs. <i>In the meantime, <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325711" class="extiw" title="phab:T325711">you can follow along with this work in Phabricator</a>.</i></li> <li><b>Talking with experienced volunteers</b>: for the "reference check" to be useful to inexperienced and experienced volunteers alike, it will need to guide people to cite references in ways that projects expect. In the coming weeks, we'll begin conversations with experienced volunteers to learn what these expectations are so that we can ensure Edit Check is configured in ways that align with them.</li> <li><b>Technical investigations:</b> For the "reference check" to work, the software will need to know when people are attempting to add new content, whether that new content warrants a reference, and whether it currently contains a reference. The Editing Engineering team is currently doing <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325700" class="extiw" title="phab:T325700">a series of technical investigations</a> to decide how we will approach building this functionality.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Strategy_and_Approach" data-mw-thread-id="h-Strategy_and_Approach"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Strategy_and_Approach"></span>Strategy and Approach<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Strategy_and_Approach"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Strategy and Approach"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To equip newcomers and Junior Contributors from Sub-Saharan Africa with the know-how and tools to publish changes they are proud of and that experienced volunteers consider useful, the Editing Team will be introducing new functionality within the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor" title="Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor">visual editor</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/VisualEditor" title="VisualEditor"> </a></span> (desktop and <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor_on_mobile" title="Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor on mobile">mobile</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/VisualEditor_on_mobile" title="VisualEditor on mobile"> </a></span>) that will check the changes people are attempting to make and present them with actions they can take to improve these changes in ways that will align with established <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Five pillars">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a>. </p><p>The first "check" the Editing Team will be introducing is one that will detect when people are attempting to add <i>new</i> content to an existing article <i>without</i> a corresponding reference and prompt them to do so. The functionality will be accompanied by a complimentary set of features that will enable moderators to configure the user experience newcomers and <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Glossary" title="Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/Glossary">Junior Contributors</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Glossary" title="Talk pages project/Glossary"> </a></span> will see to ensure the software is guiding them to take actions that align with project policies and conventions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Challenges" data-mw-thread-id="h-Challenges"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Challenges"></span>Challenges<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Challenges"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Challenges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The visual editor's growing popularity among people who are new to editing Wikipedia<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leads us to think that the editing experience has been reasonably successful at helping inexperienced volunteers learn the <i>technical skills</i> necessary to publish changes to Wikipedia. </p><p>The trouble is that the visual editor and other editing interfaces do not make people aware of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a> they are expected to follow. </p><p>As a result, the changes inexperienced volunteers publish often break established best practices and lead to undesirable outcomes for inexperienced volunteers, experienced volunteers, and Wikipedia projects as a whole: </p> <ol><li><b>Inexperienced volunteers</b> become disappointed and frustrated when the <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4663356" class="extiw" title="wikidata:Q4663356">good-faith</a> change(s) they arrived to the wiki seeking to make are <a href="/wiki/Undo" class="mw-redirect" title="Undo">undone</a> (read: reverted), deleted, and/or scrutinized in inequitable ways. These poor interactions are demotivating and drive these could-be volunteers and community members, and the knowledge that are uniquely positioned to offer, away.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Experienced volunteers/moderators</b> need to do more work reverting low-quality edits and posting messages on inexperienced volunteers' talk pages to make them aware of the policies and/or guidelines they are likely to have unknowingly broken. Continually needing to educate inexperienced volunteers and undo their changes can lead to experienced volunteers becoming skeptical of inexperienced volunteers and impatient with them.</li> <li><b>Wikipedia projects</b> struggle to grow and diversify their volunteer populations and shrink the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_gap_hypothesis" class="extiw" title="w:Knowledge gap hypothesis">knowledge gaps</a> present within Wikimedia wikis.</li></ol> <p>This project seeks to address the challenges above by: </p> <ol><li>Offering inexperienced volunteers relevant and actionable feedback about Wikipedia policies in the precious moments when they are in the midst of making a change using the visual editor.</li> <li>Equipping moderators with a new ability to specify the feedback inexperienced volunteers are presented with while they are editing</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Theory_of_change" data-mw-thread-id="h-Theory_of_change"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Theory_of_change"></span>Theory of change<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Theory_of_change"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Theory of change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This project is built on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Theory_of_change" class="extiw" title="w:en:Theory of change">belief</a> that by surfacing relevant guidance in the precious moments when inexperienced volunteers are in the midst of making a change to Wikipedia and equipping them with the know-how and tools necessary to apply this guidance, they will make changes they are proud of and that experienced volunteers value. </p><p>In the longer term, the Editing Team thinks that people who are new, particularly people who have historically been excluded from and harmed by established power structures, will feel safe and motivated making changes to Wikipedia if they can accurately predict whether the changes they are attempting to make are aligned with existing Wikipedia policies, guidelines, and/or cultural conventions. </p><p>More broadly, the Editing Team thinks that to evolve towards a future where wikis' policies and cultural norms – and ultimately, content – reflect the diverse experiences of the people these projects are intended to serve, we first need to make the norms and standards that are currently in place legible and actionable to people while they are editing.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This way, volunteers can develop shared awareness of cases where these norms and standards are not having the impacts they were intended to have and decide what – if any – changes they think are worth making to them in response. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Primary_audiences" data-mw-thread-id="h-Primary_audiences"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Primary_audiences"></span>Primary audiences<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Primary_audiences"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Primary audiences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Editing Team is centering the needs of people in this work who are: </p> <ol><li>Experience: <b>Learning the basics of contributing to Wikipedia</b> <ul><li><i>In the context of this project, we are considering people who are still "learning the basics" to be people who have published <100 cumulative edits to a single, or multiple, Wikipedias. This includes people who are editing Wikipedia for the first time.</i></li></ul></li> <li>Location: <b>Living in Sub-Saharan Africa</b></li> <li>Projects: <b>Contributing to the English and French Wikipedias</b></li> <li>Motivation: <b>Seeking to fill gaps they notice within Wikipedia</b></li></ol> <p>The four focus criteria listed above are outgrowths of: </p> <ul><li>Newcomers are two times more likely to live in Africa or Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The movement struggles to retain editors who live outside Europe and North America.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>People from Sub-Saharan Africa are underrepresented within the movement: people from Sub-Saharan Africa represent only 1% of active unique editors, despite representing 15% of the global population and 7% of the global internet population.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>80% of registered editors in Sub-Saharan Africa contribute to English or French Wikipedia.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><br/> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6353907">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic;padding-bottom:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc}.mw-parser-output .hatnote.no-border{border-bottom:none}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote mw-tpl-seealso">See also: <a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Editing team/Community Conversations">community conversations</a></div> <p><br/> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Design" data-mw-thread-id="h-Design"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Design"></span>Design<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Design"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reference_Detection" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reference_Detection-Design"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reference_Detection-Design"></span>Reference Detection<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reference_Detection-Design"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Reference Detection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To start, the Editing Team is pursuing an approach with Edit Check that minimizes the likelihood of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives" class="extiw" title="en:False positives">false positives</a> and is implemented in ways<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that empower volunteers, on a per-project basis, to evolve the heuristic<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to become more robust over time. </p><p>This strategy amounts to the initial reference Edit Check becoming activated if/when all of the following conditions are met: </p> <ol><li>A minimum of one new paragraph of text is added to the article someone is editing</li> <li>The "new paragraph(s) of text" someone has added does NOT include a reference</li> <li>The changes described in "1." and "2." are happening on a page within the main namespace (NS:0)</li></ol> <p>The conditions above are implemented and maintained in code here: <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/%2B/refs/heads/master/modules/editcheck/init.js" class="extiw" title="gerrit:plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/refs/heads/master/modules/editcheck/init.js">editcheck/init.js</a>. </p><p>The Editing Team arrived at the decision to <i>start</i> with a relatively limited and straightforward set of rules in order to: </p> <ol><li>Increase the likelihood that newcomers and Junior Contributors find the guidance Edit Check is presenting them with, and the editing experience more broadly, to be intuitive and straightforward so that they feel encourage to return to edit again</li> <li>Decrease the likelihood that Edit Check is creating more work for experienced volunteers by prompting newcomers and Junior Contributors to add sources when they are not needed</li></ol> <p><i>You can learn more about the assumptions that informed the thinking above in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329988#8654867" class="extiw" title="phab:T329988">phab:T329988#8654867</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_applications" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_applications-Design"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_applications-Design"></span>Other applications<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_applications-Design"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Other applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6353907"><div role="note" class="hatnote mw-tpl-seealso">See also: <a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Ideas" title="Edit check/Ideas">Edit check/Ideas</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Configurability" data-mw-thread-id="h-Configurability-Design"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Configurability-Design"></span>Configurability<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Configurability-Design"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Configurability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Editing Team thinks it is crucial that moderators be empowered to configure when, and for whom, Edit Check becomes activated. This way, they can be confident the software is promoting behavior they deem to be productive and modify the software when it is not. </p><p>In line with the above, and drawing inspiration from how the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter">Edit filter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration" title="Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community configuration">Growth Team Community configuration</a> systems afford volunteers the ability to audit and configure how they function on-wiki, Edit Check will enable volunteers, on a per project basis to: </p> <ul><li><b>Audit</b> and <b>edit</b> the logic that determines when the reference Edit Check becomes activated and</li> <li><b>Review</b> the edits people who are shown Edit Check are making</li></ul> <p>Work to implement the above is ongoing in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327959" class="extiw" title="phab:T327959">phab:T327959</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_Experience" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_Experience-Design"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_Experience-Design"></span>User Experience<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_Experience-Design"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: User Experience"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mobile" data-mw-thread-id="h-Mobile-User_Experience"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Mobile-User_Experience"></span>Mobile<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Mobile-User_Experience"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Mobile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-slideshow"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The initial version of the mobile Edit Check experience that will prompt people to decide whether they want to add a reference or not."><img alt="The initial version of the mobile Edit Check experience that will prompt people to decide whether they want to add a reference or not." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png/60px-Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png/90px-Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png/120px-Add_a_citation_Edit_Check_UI.png 2x" data-file-width="724" data-file-height="1444"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The initial version of the mobile Edit Check experience that will prompt people to decide whether they want to add a reference or not.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Positive feedback people will receive when they elect to add a reference as a result of Edit Check inviting them to do so."><img alt="Positive feedback people will receive when they elect to add a reference as a result of Edit Check inviting them to do so." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png/60px-Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png/90px-Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png/120px-Citation_added_through_Edit_Check_UI.png 2x" data-file-width="724" data-file-height="1444"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Positive feedback people will receive when they elect to add a reference as a result of Edit Check inviting them to do so.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png" class="mw-file-description" title="A screen that invites people who choose not to add a reference to share why."><img alt="A screen that invites people who choose not to add a reference to share why." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png/60px-Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png/90px-Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png/120px-Dismiss_UI_for_citation_Edit_Check.png 2x" data-file-width="724" data-file-height="1444"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A screen that invites people who choose <i>not</i> to add a reference to share why.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png" class="mw-file-description" title="An overview of the various screens within the mobile Edit Check experience."><img alt="An overview of the various screens within the mobile Edit Check experience." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png/99px-Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png" decoding="async" width="99" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png/149px-Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png/198px-Proposed_UX_flow_for_mobile_Edit_Check.png 2x" data-file-width="6381" data-file-height="7727"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An overview of the various screens within the mobile Edit Check experience.</div> </li> </ul> <p>The first version of Edit Check will introduce a new step within the <i>mobile</i> visual editor's publishing workflow that people will see if/when they add new content <i>without</i> a reference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Desktop" data-mw-thread-id="h-Desktop-User_Experience"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Desktop-User_Experience"></span>Desktop<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Desktop-User_Experience"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Desktop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Design for the desktop user experience is still underway.</i> <i>See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329579" class="extiw" title="phab:T329579">T329579</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Experiments" data-mw-thread-id="h-Experiments"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Experiments"></span>Experiments<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Experiments"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Experiments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reference_Check_A/B_Test" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reference_Check_A/B_Test-Experiments"><span id="Reference_Check_A.2FB_Test"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reference_Check_A/B_Test-Experiments"></span>Reference Check A/B Test<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reference_Check_A/B_Test-Experiments"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Reference Check A/B Test"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To learn whether the Reference Edit Check is effective at causing <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Evaluating_impact">newcomers to make edits they intended and experienced volunteers value</a>, we conducted an A/B test with <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345298" class="extiw" title="phab:T345298">15 Wikipedias</a>. </p><p>Below you can read more about what this experiment demonstrated, what the Editing Team is planning in response, and more details about the test's design. </p><p><b>Conclusion and next step(s)</b> </p><p>Reference Check caused an <b><u>increase in the quality of edits</u></b> newcomers publish and <b><u>did not cause any significant disruption</u></b>. </p><p>This combination is leading the <a href="/wiki/Editing_team" title="Editing team">Editing Team</a> to be confident that <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331946" class="extiw" title="phab:T331946">offering Reference Check as a default-on feature</a> would have a net positive impact on all wikis and the people who contribute to them. </p><p><i>You can <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mneisler.quarto.pub/reference-check-ab-test-report-2024">read the full A/B test report here</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Findings" data-mw-thread-id="h-Findings-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Findings-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span>Findings<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Findings-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Findings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png"><img resource="/wiki/File:Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png/220px-Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png/330px-Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png/440px-Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1536"/></a><figcaption>There was <b><u>2x increase</u></b> in the proportion of new content edits by newcomers, Junior contributors, and unregistered users that included a reference when Reference Check was shown to eligible edits.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>New content edits *with* a reference</i> </p><p>People shown the Reference Check are <b><u>2.2 times more likely</u></b> to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is constructive (not reverted within 48 hours). </p> <ul><li>Increases were observed across <i>all reviewed user types</i>, wikis, and platforms.</li></ul> <ul><li>The highest observed increase was on mobile where contributors are <b><u>4.2 times more likely</u></b> to publish a constructive new content edit with a reference when Reference Check was shown to eligible edits.</li></ul> <p><i>Revert rate</i> </p> <ul><li>New content edit revert rate <b><u>decreased by 8.6%</u></b> if Reference Check was available. <ul><li>New content edits by contributors from Sub-Saharan Africa are <b><u>53% less likely</u></b> to be reverted when Reference Check is shown to eligible edits.</li> <li><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png"><img resource="/wiki/File:Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png/220px-Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png/330px-Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png/440px-Constructive_new_content_edits_with_a_reference_from_reference_check_AB_test_analysis_by_platform.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1536"/></a><figcaption>We observed increases on both desktop and mobile. On mobile, users are <b><u>4.2 times</u></b> more likely to include a reference with their new content when the reference check is shown to eligible edits.</figcaption></figure>While some non-constructive new content edits with a reference were introduced by this feature (5 percentage point increase), there was a higher proportion of constructive new content edits with a reference added (23.4 percentage point increase). As a result, we observed an overall increase in the quality of new content edits.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png"><img resource="/wiki/File:48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png/220px-48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png/330px-48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png/440px-48_hour_new_content_edit_revert_rate_in_reference_check_AB_test.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1536"/></a><figcaption>There was a <b><u>-8.6% decrease</u></b> in the revert rate of all new content edits comparing edits where Reference Check was shown in the test group to edits that were eligible but not shown Reference Check in the control group.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Constructive Retention Rate</i> </p> <ul><li>Contributors that are shown Reference Check and successfully save a non-reverted edit are <b><u>16 percent more likely</u></b> to return to make a non-reverted edit in their second month (31-60 days after). <ul><li>This increase was primarily observed for desktop edits. There was a non-statistically significant difference observed on mobile.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Guardrails" data-mw-thread-id="h-Guardrails-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Guardrails-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span>Guardrails<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Guardrails-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Guardrails"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Edit Completion Rate</i> </p> <ul><li>We observed <b><u>no drastic decreases</u></b> in edit completion rate from intent to save (where Reference Check is shown) to save success overall or by wiki.</li> <li>Overall, there was a <b><u>10% decrease</u></b> in edit completion rate for edits where Reference Check was shown. <ul><li>There was a higher observed decrease in edit completion rate on mobile compared to desktop. On mobile, edit completion rate decreased by -24.3% while on desktop it decreased by -3.1%.</li></ul></li></ul> <p><i>Block Rate</i> </p> <ul><li>There were <b><u>decreases or no changes</u></b> in the rate of users blocked after after being shown Reference Check and publishing an edit compared to users in the control group.</li></ul> <p><i>False Negative Rate</i> </p> <ul><li>There was a low false negative rate. Only <b><u>1.8%</u></b> of all published new content edits in the test group did not include a new reference and were not shown Reference Check.</li></ul> <p><i>False Positive Rate</i> </p> <ul><li><b><u>6.6%</u></b> of contributors dismissed adding a citation because they indicated the new content being added does not need a reference. This was the least selected decline option overall.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Test_design" data-mw-thread-id="h-Test_design-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Test_design-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span>Test design<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Test_design-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Test design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345298" class="extiw" title="phab:T345298">11 Wikipedias participated in the test</a>. At each wiki, 50% of users were randomly assigned to a <code>test</code> group and 50% were assigned to a <code>control</code> group. </p><p>Users in the <code>test</code> group were shown the Reference Check notice prompting them to decide whether the new content they were adding need a reference (if they had not already added one themselves). </p><p>User in the <code>control</code> group were shown the default editing experience, even if they did not accompany the new content they were adding with a reference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Timing" data-mw-thread-id="h-Timing-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Timing-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span>Timing<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Timing-Reference_Check_A/B_Test"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Timing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This analysis was completed on 16 April 2024 and analyzed engagement data at the 11 participating wikis from 18 February 2024 through 4 April 2024. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Evaluating_impact" data-mw-thread-id="h-Evaluating_impact"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Evaluating_impact"></span>Evaluating impact<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Evaluating_impact"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Evaluating impact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The viability of the features introduced as part of the Edit Check project depends on the impacts it causes and averts.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This section describes the: </p> <ol><li><b>Impacts</b> the features introduced as part of the Edit Check are intended to cause and avert</li> <li><b>Data</b> we will use to <i>help</i><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> determine the extent to which a feature has/has not <i>caused</i> a particular impact</li> <li><b>Evaluation methods</b> we will use to gather the data necessary to determine the impact of a given feature</li></ol> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Desirable Outcomes<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>ID </th> <th>Outcome </th> <th>Data </th> <th>Evaluation Method(s) </th></tr> <tr> <td>1. </td> <td>Increase the quality of edits newcomers and Junior Contributors editing from within Sub-Saharan Africa publish in the main namespace </td> <td><i>Decrease</i> in the proportion of <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333714" class="extiw" title="phab:T333714">published edits that add new content</a> and are reverted within 48 hours or have a <i>high</i> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning_models/Proposed/Language-agnostic_revert_risk" class="extiw" title="m:Machine learning models/Proposed/Language-agnostic revert risk">revision risk score</a> <p>Comments/reports from experienced volunteers about the quality of edits Edit Check is activated within<sup id="cite_ref-:02_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, qualitative feedback (e.g. talk page discussions, false positive reporting) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2. </td> <td>Increase the likelihood that newcomers and Junior Contributors editing from within Sub-Saharan Africa will accompany the new content they are adding with a reference </td> <td>Increase in the percentage of published edits that add new content <i>and</i> include a reference <p>Increase in the percent of newcomers or Junior Contributors from SSA that publish at least one new content edit that includes a reference </p><p>Increase in the likelihood that someone includes a reference the next time they contribute new content. </p> </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. </td> <td>Newcomers and Junior Contributors editing from within Sub-Saharan Africa will report feeling safe and confident making changes to Wikipedia </td> <td>Newcomers and Junior Contributors find the feedback and calls to action Edit Check presents them with to be: <ol><li>Helpful</li> <li>Supportive</li> <li>Motivating</li></ol> </td> <td>Qualitative feedback via channels like:<a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations" title="Editing team/Community Conversations">Community Calls</a>, talk pages, event organizers, etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td>4. </td> <td>Experienced volunteers will independently audit and iterate upon Edit Check's default configurations to ensure Edit Check is causing newcomers and Junior Contributors to make productive edits. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5. </td> <td>Newcomers and Junior Contributors will be more aware of the need to add a reference when contributing new content because the visual editor will prompt them to do so in cases where they have not done so themselves. </td> <td>Increase in the percent of newcomers or Junior Contributors from SSA that publish at least one new content edit that includes a reference. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Risks (Undesirable Outcomes)<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>ID </th> <th>Outcome </th> <th>Data </th> <th>Evaluation Method(s) </th></tr> <tr> <td>1. </td> <td>Edit quality decreases </td> <td><i>Increase</i> in the proportion of <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333714" class="extiw" title="phab:T333714">published edits that add new content</a> and are reverted within 48 hours <i>or</i> have a <i>high</i> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning_models/Proposed/Language-agnostic_revert_risk" class="extiw" title="m:Machine learning models/Proposed/Language-agnostic revert risk">revision risk score</a> <p>Comments/reports from experienced volunteers about the quality of edits Edit Check is activated within<sup id="cite_ref-:02_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, qualitative review and feedback </td></tr> <tr> <td>2. </td> <td>Edits become more difficult to patrol because unreliable citations are difficult to detect </td> <td>Significant increase in the percentage of new content edits new and developing volunteers make that include a reference <p>Comments/reports from experienced volunteers about the quality of edits Edit Check is activated within<sup id="cite_ref-:02_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, qualitative review and feedback </td></tr> <tr> <td>3. </td> <td>Edit completion rate drastically decreases </td> <td>Proportion of edits that are started (<code>event.action</code> = <code>init</code>) that are successfully published (<code>event.action</code> = <code>saveSuccess</code>). </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4. </td> <td>Edit abandonment rate drastically increases </td> <td>Proportion of contributors that are presented Edit Check feedback and abandon their edits (indicated by <code>event.action</code> = <code>abort</code> and <code>event.abort_type</code> = <code>abandon</code>) </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5. </td> <td>Blocks increase </td> <td>Proportion of contributors blocked after publishing an edit where Edit Check was shown is significantly higher than edits in which Edit Check was <i>not</i> shown </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>6. </td> <td>High false positive or false negative rates </td> <td>Proportion of new content edits published without a reference and without being shown Edit Check (indicator of false negative) <p>Proportion of contributors that dismiss adding a citation and select <i>"I didn't add new information"</i> or other indicator that the change they are making doesn't require a citation </p> </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing" class="extiw" title="en:A/B testing">A/B test</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, qualitative feedback received from volunteers about the accuracy and usefulness of Edit Check's current configuration <sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7. </td> <td>Edit Check is too resource intensive to scale </td> <td>Efficiencies do <i>not</i> emerge over time making each new Edit Check as "expensive" to implement as the first one </td> <td>Qualitative assessment by the Edting team </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Deployment_process" data-mw-thread-id="h-Deployment_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Deployment_process"></span>Deployment process<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Deployment_process"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Deployment process"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Please see <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Deployment_status#Deployment_process" title="Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Deployment status">Deployment status#Deployment process</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Deployment_status#Deployment_process" title="Edit check/Deployment status"> </a></span>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Background" data-mw-thread-id="h-Background"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Background"></span>Background<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Background"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Volunteers throughout the movement have a long history of working to: </p> <ul><li><b>Proactively</b> educate and guide newcomers to make changes they feel proud of and changes that improve Wikipedia</li> <li><b>Prevent</b> people from publishing destructive changes, <i>and</i></li> <li><b>React</b> to and moderate changes to Wikipedia articles.</li></ul> <p>The Editing Team and this project have been inspired by these efforts, some of which are listed below. If there is a project or resource you think we should be aware of, please add it here! </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Initiative </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Initiator(s) </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Corrector_ortogr%C3%A1fico" class="extiw" title="es:Wikipedia:Corrector ortográfico">Corrector ortográfico</a>, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Helferlein/Rechtschreibpr%C3%BCfung" class="extiw" title="de:Wikipedia:Helferlein/Rechtschreibprüfung">Helferlein/Rechtschreibprüfung</a>, <a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A7_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA" class="extiw" title="he:ויקיפדיה:סקריפטים/בודק איות">ויקיפדיה:סקריפטים/בודק איות</a>, <a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revisor_ortogr%C3%A1fico" class="extiw" title="gl:Wikipedia:Revisor ortográfico">Revisor_ortográfico</a> </td> <td>A tool that checks pages loaded in the browser against a list of common spelling errors. </td> <td><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Poco_a_poco" class="extiw" title="es:Usuario:Poco a poco">Poco_a_poco</a>, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:APPER" class="extiw" title="de:Benutzer:APPER">Benutzer:APPER</a>, <a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%A9:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9F" class="extiw" title="he:משתמש:ערן">:משתמש:ערן</a>, <a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Elisardojm" class="extiw" title="gl:Usuario:Elisardojm">Elisardojm</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%87%E2%80%8C%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A8" class="extiw" title="fa:ویکی‌پدیا:اشتباه‌یاب">Error Finder</a> </td> <td>A tool to find common errors in Persian texts </td> <td><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Reza1615" class="extiw" title="fa:کاربر:Reza1615">Reza1615</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Warn_when_large_amount_of_content_has_been_copy-pasted" class="extiw" title="meta:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Warn when large amount of content has been copy-pasted">Wish: Warn when large amount of content has been copy-pasted</a> </td> <td>A wish to warn people who are pasting text into Wikipedia and to annotate edits in which this occurs so that patroller can consider this as they are reviewing edits/looking for edits to review. </td> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek" class="extiw" title="meta:User:Matěj Suchánek">Matěj_Suchánek</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Articles_sans_sources" class="extiw" title="fr:Projet:Articles sans sources">fr:Projet:Articles sans sources</a> (along with <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18591638" class="extiw" title="d:Q18591638">3 other wikiprojects</a>) </td> <td>A WikiProject intended to add sources to articles that need them </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CopyPatrol" class="extiw" title="meta:CopyPatrol">CopyPatrol</a> </td> <td>Tool that allows you to see recent Wikipedia edits that are flagged as possible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations" class="extiw" title="en:Wikipedia:Copyright violations">copyright violations</a> </td> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech" class="extiw" title="meta:Community Tech">Community Tech Team</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09709" class="extiw" title="arxiv:1911.09709">Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text</a> </td> <td>Method for automatically bringing inappropriately subjective text into a neutral point of view ("neutralizing" biased text). </td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Pryzant,+R">Reid Pryzant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Martinez,+R+D">Richard Diehl Martinez</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Dass,+N">Nathan Dass</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Kurohashi,+S">Sadao Kurohashi</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Jurafsky,+D">Dan Jurafsky</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Yang,+D">Diyi Yang</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_Watchlist" class="extiw" title="en:Wikipedia:Citation Watchlist">Wikipedia:Citation watchlist</a> </td> <td>User script that adds visual indicators to watchlist and recent changes entries when unreliable sources are added to articles. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Harej" class="extiw" title="en:User:Harej">Harej</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi" class="extiw" title="en:User:Ocaasi">Ocaasi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://internetarchive.github.io/iare/">Internet Archive Reference Explorer</a> </td> <td>Explore references included in Wikipedia articles via a range of criteria </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a class="external text" href="Https://wikiscore.toolforge.org">WikiScore</a> </td> <td>A tool created to validate edits and count scores of participants in wikicontests. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a class="external text" href="https://copyvios.toolforge.org/">Earwig's <b>Copyvio Detector</b></a> </td> <td>This tool attempts to detect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COPYVIO" class="extiw" title="en:WP:COPYVIO">copyright violations</a> in articles. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Earwig" class="extiw" title="en:User:The Earwig">The Earwig</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen" class="extiw" title="en:User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen">CiteUnseen</a> </td> <td>A user script that adds categorical icons to Wikipedia citations, providing readers and editors a quick initial evaluation of citations at a glance. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster" class="extiw" title="en:User:SuperHamster">SuperHamster</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Credibility_bot" class="extiw" title="en:User:Credibility bot">Credibility bot</a> </td> <td>Monitors and collects data on source usage within Wikipedia articles </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Harej" title="User:Harej">Harej</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salebot/Config" class="extiw" title="fr:User:Salebot/Config">Salebot</a> (fr.wiki) </td> <td>A counter-vandalism bot that uses regex to identify issues. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editnotice#Edit_intros" class="extiw" title="en:Wikipedia:Editnotice">Edit intros</a> (en.wiki) </td> <td>A message is shown automatically when editing a page categorized as either <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people" class="extiw" title="en:Category:Living people">Category:Living people</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Possibly_living_people" class="extiw" title="en:Category:Possibly living people">Category:Possibly living people</a>. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212848" class="extiw" title="phab:T212848">Make edit notices more visible in Visual Editor</a> </td> <td>How might we make it so people who are in the midst of an edit are likely to see and "internalize" the information that is currently presented within <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/Edit notice">Edit Notices</a>? </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Stjn" title="User:Stjn">User:Stjn</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Internet Archive Reference Explorer </td> <td>Automatically detect source quality </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi" class="extiw" title="en:User:Ocaasi">Ocaasi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/New_contributors/Reference_requirement_for_new_article_creation" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist Survey 2023/New contributors/Reference requirement for new article creation">Wish: Reference requirement for new article creation</a> </td> <td>Require new article to include references </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Mega809&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Mega809 (page does not exist)">User:Mega809</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice" title="Manual:Interface/Edit notice">Edit Notices</a> </td> <td>Enables individual volunteers and projects to display a custom notice above the edit form, depending on the page, namespace, or other circumstances. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Page notices </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maintenance templates </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter">Extension:AbuseFilter</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter" title="Extension:AbuseFilter"> </a></span> </td> <td>Enables privileged users to set specific actions to be taken when actions by users, such as edits, match certain criteria. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Disambiguator" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Disambiguator">Extension:Disambiguator</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator" title="Extension:Disambiguator"> </a></span> </td> <td>Displays a notification in the 2006/2010 <i>wikitext</i> editor whenever one adds a link to a disambiguation page. </td> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Community Tech">Community Tech</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/ORES" title="ORES">ORES</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)" title="User:Halfak (WMF)">Halfak (WMF)</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Suggested Edits </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js" class="extiw" title="w:User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js">CiteHighlighter</a> </td> <td>Highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on their reliability. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Novem_Linguae" class="extiw" title="w:User:Novem Linguae">Novem Linguae</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia">Checkwiki</a> </td> <td>Helps clean up syntax and other errors in the source code of Wikipedia </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Stefan_K%C3%BChn" title="User:Stefan Kühn">Stefan Kühn</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Bgwhite&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Bgwhite (page does not exist)">Bgwhite</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Edit Diff Tagging </td> <td>Showcases all the different tags that can be automatically determined (generally via basic heuristics) for a given Wikipedia edit diff. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)" title="User:Isaac (WMF)">Isaac (WMF)</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLoop/2020_Year_in_Review" class="extiw" title="m:WikiLoop/2020 Year in Review">CivilityCheck</a> </td> <td>A project to evaluate the civility in the comments of Wikipedia discussions in order to address the problem of abuse that leads to declining editorship within the Wiki community. </td> <td>Deus Nsenga, Baelul Haile, David Ihim, and Elan Houticolo-Retzler </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ValeJappo/BOTutor" class="extiw" title="m:User:ValeJappo/BOTutor">BOTutor</a> </td> <td>A bot that sends a message to people who attempt to publish an edit that triggers an existing set of rules </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/it:User:ValeJappo" class="extiw" title="w:it:User:ValeJappo">ValeJappo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99:Gadget-autocomplete.js" class="extiw" title="he:מדיה ויקי:Gadget-autocomplete.js">Gadget-autocomplete.js</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9F" title="User:ערן">ערן</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_reactions" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Text reactions">Text reactions</a> </td> <td>A <i>proposal</i> that would make it possible for the editing interface to <i>react</i> to what the people enter in the editing area </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:SD0001" title="User:SD0001">SD0001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ankit18gupta/Editwizard" class="extiw" title="w:User:Ankit18gupta/Editwizard">Editwizard</a> </td> <td>A step-by-step process for guiding newcomers to source the content they are attempting to add to Wikipedia articles </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ankit18gupta" class="extiw" title="w:User:Ankit18gupta">Ankit18gupta</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Enterprisey" title="User:Enterprisey">Enterprisey</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Firefly" title="User:Firefly">Firefly</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:SD0001" title="User:SD0001">SD0001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Headbomb/unreliable" class="extiw" title="w:User:Headbomb/unreliable">Headbomb/unreliable</a> </td> <td>"The script breaks down links to various sources in different 'severities' of unreliability. In general, the script is kept in sync with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RSPSOURCES" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:RSPSOURCES">WP:RSPSOURCES</a>, {{<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Predatory_open_access_source_list" class="extiw" title="w:Template:Predatory open access source list">Predatory open access source list</a>}}, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPPSG" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:NPPSG">WP:NPPSG</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SPSLIST" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:SPSLIST">WP:SPSLIST</a> (not fully implemented yet) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CITEWATCH" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:CITEWATCH">WP:CITEWATCH</a>, with some minor differences." </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Headbomb" class="extiw" title="w:User:Headbomb">Headbomb</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:SD0001" title="User:SD0001">SD0001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWA" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:TWA">The Wikipedia Adventure</a> </td> <td>Game based on the tech of <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour">Extension:GuidedTour</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour" title="Extension:GuidedTour"> </a></span> that teaches basic wikitext markup and the rules about reliable sources and neutral point of view. Research into its effectiveness is described at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Impact_of_The_Wikipedia_Adventure_on_new_editor_retention" class="extiw" title="m:Research:Impact of The Wikipedia Adventure on new editor retention">meta:Research:Impact of The Wikipedia Adventure on new editor retention</a>. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Ocaasi" title="User:Ocaasi">Ocaasi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction" class="extiw" title="w:Help:Introduction">w:Help:Introduction</a> </td> <td>The primary tutorial for new editors at English Wikipedia, covering both policies and technical how-to for VisualEditor and wiki markup. Most recently overhauled in late 2020 and more actively maintained than TWA. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sdkb" class="extiw" title="w:User:Sdkb">Sdkb</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evolution_and_evolvability" class="extiw" title="w:User:Evolution and evolvability">Evolution and evolvability</a>, and others </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages" class="extiw" title="w:User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages">User:Phlsph7/<br/>HighlightUnreferencedPassages</a> </td> <td>A user script to highlight passages that lack references with a red background. Its main purpose is to help users quickly identify unreferenced passages, paragraphs, and sections in mainspace articles and drafts </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Phlsph7" class="extiw" title="w:User:Phlsph7">Phlsph7</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/New_contributors/Add_notice_to_Visual_Editor_that_unsourced_edits_may_be_reverted" class="extiw" title="meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/New contributors/Add notice to Visual Editor that unsourced edits may be reverted">Wish: Add notice to the visual editor that unsourced edits may be reverted</a> </td> <td>A notice in the "Publish changes" dialogue of the visual editor that states that unsourced edits will be reverted </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Lectrician1" title="User:Lectrician1">User:Lectrician1</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Citations/Warn_when_adding_a_url_reference_that_matches_the_SpamBlacklist" class="extiw" title="meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Citations/Warn when adding a url reference that matches the SpamBlacklist">Wish: Warn when adding a url reference that matches the SpamBlacklist</a> </td> <td>Warn when the url added as reference is registered in the SpamBlacklist, and thus prevent the warning from appearing when saving the page. </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:DSan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:DSan (page does not exist)">User:DSan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/history/686" class="extiw" title="w:Special:AbuseFilter/history/686">Edit FIler #686</a> </td> <td>Edit Filter that is triggered when a new user possibly adding unreferenced material to BLP </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough" title="User:Rich Farmbrough">User:Rich Farmbrough</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WikiLearn" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/WikiLearn">WikiLearn</a> </td> <td>Platform for training </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DannyS712/copyvio-check.js" class="extiw" title="w:User:DannyS712/copyvio-check.js">DannyS712/copyvio-check.js</a> </td> <td>Automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DannyS712" class="extiw" title="w:User:DannyS712">DannyS712</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_warnings/Testing/XLinkBot" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings/Testing/XLinkBot">XLinkBot</a> </td> <td>A bot that warns people who have added an external link that is inappropriate in some way. </td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Versageek" class="extiw" title="w:User:Versageek">Versageek</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beetstra" class="extiw" title="w:User:Beetstra">Beetstra</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit check">Help:Edit check</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_check" title="Help:Edit check"> </a></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-visualeditor-ve-mw-editcheck&language=&filter=&optional=1&action=translate">Translate this extension</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="References" data-mw-thread-id="h-References"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-References"></span>References<span data-mw-comment-end="h-References"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edit_check&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300942#9597055" class="extiw" title="phab:T300942">T300942#9597055</a> via <a href="/wiki/User:Pikne" title="User:Pikne">@Pikne</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300942#9597611" class="extiw" title="phab:T300942">T300942#9597611</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Reference Check will be made available to remaining wikis via <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366381" class="extiw" title="phab:T366381">T366381</a> and <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367343" class="extiw" title="phab:T367343">T367343</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Editing_team/Community_Conversations#January_2023" title="Editing team/Community Conversations">Editing team/Community Conversations#January 2023</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327330" class="extiw" title="phab:T327330">T327330</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Talk:Edit_check#So_glad_to_see!" title="Talk:Edit check">Talk:Edit check#So glad to see!</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#When_should_newcomers_be_prompted_to_add_sources?" class="extiw" title="en:Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers">en:When should newcomers be prompted to add sources?</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324364" class="extiw" title="phab:T324364">T324364</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323145" class="extiw" title="phab:T323145">T323145</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326856" class="extiw" title="phab:T326856">T326856</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://superset.wikimedia.org/r/1764">Superset: Wikipedia edits by interface and experience level</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ApoC5Dh1MGiUrUd1jxrkonJGnx0ITNFP487YFmI-Q-E/edit#slide=id.g541dc22bcf_1_94">Growth Team: IP editing Research Report</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm">The Tyranny of Structurelessness</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:0_14-0">14.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:0_14-1">14.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/Community_Insights_2021_Report/Thriving_Movement#Community_and_Newcomer_Diversity" class="extiw" title="m:Community Insights/Community Insights 2021 Report/Thriving Movement">Community Insights 2021 Report</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y8Blsb0cL0fXfSSB5KYJ-F33hrsPxXiHSOGYKe4LOSc/edit#slide=id.g1272bd4e6f1_0_4">Regional Quarterly Learning Sessions (June 2022, google document)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://superset.wikimedia.org/r/1907">Superset</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327959" class="extiw" title="phab:T327959">T327959</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324730" class="extiw" title="phab:T324730">T324730</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> Where "viability" in this context refers to a feature being fit for being scaled to all projects as determined by the extent to which it has been proven to have a net positive impact on wikis and the volunteers who build and maintain them.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Emphasis on "<i>help</i>" seeing as how all decisions will depend on a variety of data, all of which need to be weighted and considered to make informed decisions.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325838" class="extiw" title="phab:T325838">T325838</a>: Finish Edit Check measurement plan proposal</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:02-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:02_22-0">22.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:02_22-1">22.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:02_22-2">22.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">At every project where Edit Check is available, volunteers will be able to use the <code>editcheck-reference-activated</code> tag to review edits where the reference check is shown to people in the process of publishing an edit. <i><a href="/wiki/Edit_check/Tags" title="Edit check/Tags">Learn more about Edit Check tags</a>.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-0">23.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-1">23.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-2">23.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-3">23.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-4">23.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-5">23.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-6">23.6</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-7">23.7</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:1_23-8">23.8</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342930" class="extiw" title="phab:T342930">[Analysis] Run an A/B test to evaluate Edit Check (references) impact</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325851" class="extiw" title="phab:T325851">T325851</a>: Conduct pre-mortem for Edit Check project</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">In addition to existing feedback channels (Phabricator, talk pages, etc.) there will be a minimum of two additional ways for people to share feedback about Edit Check: A) reporting edits that you think Edit Check should <i>not</i> have been shown within and B) declining to add a reference mid-edit by indicating you think Edit Check was shown when it 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