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Analyze Edit Notices across Wikipedia projects
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Description

As a proxy for understanding the Wikipedia policies/instructions/guidance that experienced volunteers perceive "editors" (broadly defined) are most in need of being made aware of, this task involves the work with cataloguing and organizing the information these experienced volunteers have embedded into Edit Notices that appear in the main namespace.

Open question

  • 1. How might we aggregate the content of main namespace Edit Notices across Wikipedia projects in one centralized place?
    • 2. How might we evaluate the relative popularity of an Edit Notices across Wikipedia projects? Asked in another way: how might we determine how important volunteers perceive a particular message within an edit notice to be relative to other other messages?

Background

The Editing Team will soon need to decide what "checks" we'll prioritize building during the 2023-2024 fiscal,