https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43191
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Bug ID: 43191
Summary: Tag edits made through Special:GettingStarted
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: GettingStarted
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: swall...@wikimedia.org
CC: mflasc...@wikimedia.org, oliv...@wikimedia.org,
sp...@wikimedia.org, swall...@wikimedia.org,
wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
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On English Wikipedia, we should add a tag
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tags) to edits made to articles chosen
from Special:GettingStarted by new editors.
We are logging actions anonymously with EventLogging, but providing a public
tag of edits made through this interface has additional advantages:
* It will allow product managers and analysts the ability to see a real time
stream of the edits
* It will help community members inspect the overall stream of edits, and
assess them for quality
* It will explain to anyone who is watching a page how new editors found the
article, and why they are editing it
* It will allow us to find and contact the new editors who use
Special:GettingStarted (right now vandals are being warned, but good editors
are being ignored for the most part)
If we're adding a tag, we should assume that most community members won't know
what Special:GettingStarted is. With that in mind, I propose the following for
the tag text: [[Special:Tags|Tag]]: new editor
[[Wikipedia:GettingStarted|getting started]]
This is also appropriately agnostic to the task type (copyediting, wikifying,
etc.), which is likely to change as the project evolves. You can see other tags
in use on English Wikipedia at Special:Tags.
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