Oh sorry, I didn't realize someone else had already beat me to linking to it! Apologies for the duplicate material.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM <bevel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello > > Some wikis have added the requirement to add citations at the edit summary > step. But it is clearly too late in the process, as users just want to > publish. Some users will add citations as a second step, but it might be > too late, as the edit has a great chance of being reverted meanwhile. > > You might be interested in the Editing team's current project, Edit check < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check>. > > This project aims to provide in-context help by checking on the edit. The > first iteration is "Reference Check": if a user adds a paragraph with zero > source, they are encouraged to add one. We are currently testing it at 22 > Wikipedias, to verify if the prompt to add citations is not blocking users. > > You can test it at your wiki using an URL parameter: > 1. Edit any article in the main namespace using the VisualEditor. > 2. Add &ecenable=1 to the URL in your browser. -- For example in Dutch, as > Romaine started the thread: > https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zon&veaction=edit&ecenable=1 > 3. Reload the page with the new URL. > 4. Create a new paragraph, that is at least 50 characters long without > adding a citation > 5. Press the Publish… Notice the prompt that appears > 6. Test is completed, don't save your edit unless you know what you are > doing. > > All edits are tagged, so that you can find them in Recent Changes or in > your Watchlist. If a user selects "no" after the prompt, they have to > select a reason why. That reason is tagged as well, easing experienced > users' work on patrolling and improving these edits. > > We will soon add a message if the added citation is listed on > MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json. > > As Edit Check only checks the first paragraph added, the next iteration > will be to add multi-Reference checks. We are currently working on the > design for multi-checks. > > Of course, Edit Check is not limited to adding citations. We can imagine > other ways to close the tap. Your suggestions are welcomed, as are your > questions. > > Thank you, > -- > Benoît Evellin - Trizek_(WMF) (he/him) > Community Relations Specialist > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/RWQIXLQEBNC62THG5J4TY7OCHCKRAPUF/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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