In T312180, we identified the first Edit Check we'd implement as part of the project: a check that invites people to add a reference when attempting to publish new content without including one.
This task involves the work for deciding on the two additional checks the Editing Team will strive to implement during the 2023-2024 fiscal year.
Requirements
Any check that we prioritize work on will need to meet the following requirements, some of which are borrowed from T312180.
| ID | Requirement | Relevant task(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Experienced volunteers need to consider the check potentially impactful to reducing the amount of time/energy/effort they need to allocate to "rote" moderation tasks. | T343173 |
| 2. | Newcomers and Junior Contributors need to be likely to encounter and benefit from the guidance/feedback the check will introduce | T313566, T343173 |
| 3. | The design/functionality the check depends on needs to have the potential to be generalized to other checks in the future | |
| 4. | The check needs to help us learn something new about how to effectively "reach" people before they publish the edit they're making | |
| 5. | The check needs to have minimal false positives and negatives so that volunteers can develop trust in it.[i] | |
Checks
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
i. Said in another way: it needs to be relatively straightforward for the software to detect:
- A) When someone is doing something that is relevant to the check in question
- B) When someone is doing something that is at risk of defying the policies, and by extension, expectations volunteers hold about edits of the sort someone is attempting to make