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Help panel: Manage help panel links on wiki
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The help panel is a feature that allows newcomers to post questions directly to their wiki's help desk while they are in the middle of editing a page. The panel also provides a set of five recommended help links that are quite popular -- in wikis with the help panel between 40% and 50% of users who open the help panel click one of the links.

As noted in T211117: Help panel: provide ability to vary links by context, there is a desire to manage help panel links (the 5 default links, and any links that are varied by context, as well as the "View more help" link) on-wiki. Currently, the links are maintained in configuration and SWAT deployments are required to update them.

Our current view is that we should implement a system to manage the help panel links on-wiki before attempting to vary links by context (T211117).

The idea would be to have a page like Mediawiki:HelpPanelLinks with either a documented wikitext format or a JSON content model (h/t @Urbanecm) on how the links should be structured.

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Allow users to maintain help panel links from Special:EditGrowthConfigmediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperimentsmaster+159 -10
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kostajh created this task.Feb 12 2019, 3:02 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 12 2019, 3:02 PM
kostajh added a parent task: T206711: [EPIC] Growth: help panel.Feb 12 2019, 3:02 PM
kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Needs Discussion on the Growth-Team board.
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MMiller_WMF renamed this task from Help Panel: Manage help panel links on wiki to Help panel: Manage help panel links on wiki.Feb 13 2019, 1:54 AM
JTannerWMF moved this task from Needs Discussion to Q2 2019-20 on the Growth-Team board.Feb 27 2019, 12:24 AM
SBisson added a project: GrowthExperiments.Feb 28 2019, 7:45 PM
kostajh added a project: GrowthExperiments-Help panel.Mar 27 2019, 9:06 PM
SBisson mentioned this in W2253 Tasks.Apr 4 2019, 12:35 PM
SBisson added a project: Wikimania-Hackathon-2019.Apr 4 2019, 6:22 PM
SBisson subscribed.

The Growth team is considering this task for the hackathon. We're happy to collaborate with other participants on this.

SBisson edited projects, added Wikimedia-Hackathon-2019; removed Wikimania-Hackathon-2019.Apr 4 2019, 7:17 PM
SBisson moved this task from Backlog to Projects on the Wikimedia-Hackathon-2019 board.Apr 4 2019, 7:19 PM
kostajh mentioned this in T211117: Help panel: provide ability to vary links by context.Apr 5 2019, 1:39 PM
Tgr subscribed.May 15 2019, 5:41 PM
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JTannerWMF moved this task from Q2 2019-20 to Q1 2019-20 on the Growth-Team board.Jun 17 2019, 6:52 PM
MMiller_WMF added a project: Wikimania-Hackathon-2019.Aug 13 2019, 9:42 PM
Aklapper removed a project: GrowthExperiments.Sep 11 2019, 12:47 PM
kostajh mentioned this in T244541: Newcomer tasks: suggested edit screen in guidance.Apr 8 2020, 1:25 PM
MMiller_WMF subscribed.Apr 14 2020, 5:33 PM

An idea brought up by an enwiki community member (link here): The help pages listed should be customized based on the type of article being viewed, so for instance, there should be links to biography policies/help pages for biography articles.

Parkywiki subscribed.Apr 20 2020, 1:56 PM
Urbanecm edited subscribers, added: Urbanecm_WMF; removed: Urbanecm.Aug 22 2020, 6:52 PM
Urbanecm_WMF added a comment.Feb 5 2021, 11:21 PM

We should make this an on-wiki JSON, similar to https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json.

kostajh added a comment.Feb 11 2021, 9:03 PM
In T215911#6808018, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

We should make this an on-wiki JSON, similar to https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json.

👍

MMiller_WMF added a comment.Feb 12 2021, 3:50 AM

@Urbanecm_WMF -- would this not be one of the configurable things on the single larger configuration form that you're going to be developing? Or is there a reason it should be separate?

Urbanecm_WMF added a comment.Feb 12 2021, 12:24 PM

This should defnitely be a part of T274520: Move Growth configuration to on-wiki JSON file. I'll add it as a parent task.

Urbanecm_WMF added a parent task: T274520: Move Growth configuration to on-wiki JSON file.Feb 12 2021, 12:25 PM
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Urbanecm_WMF edited projects, added User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering), Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)); removed Growth-Team.

and now I'm actually working on this one, claiming.

Urbanecm_WMF edited parent tasks, added: T274031: Provide custom editing interface for GrowthExperiments on-wiki configuration; removed: T274520: Move Growth configuration to on-wiki JSON file.Apr 14 2021, 5:22 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 14 2021, 5:22 PM

Change 677916 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Allow users to maintain help panel links from Special:EditGrowthConfig

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/677916

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 14 2021, 5:22 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Apr 14 2021, 5:22 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Backlog to In review on the User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering) board.
MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 6:51 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from In review to In progress on the User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering) board.Apr 19 2021, 6:55 PM
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Trizek-WMF subscribed.Apr 22 2021, 11:02 AM

Will this be included in the next version of the configuration page?

Urbanecm_WMF added a comment.Apr 22 2021, 12:49 PM
In T215911#7027467, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

Will this be included in the next version of the configuration page?

That depends on @Tgr's ability to code-review it. My patch to make it possible should work :).

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gerritbot added a comment.Apr 26 2021, 9:12 AM

Change 677916 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Allow users to maintain help panel links from Special:EditGrowthConfig

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/677916

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Apr 26 2021, 9:24 AM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from In progress to My Part Done on the User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering) board.
In T215911#7027621, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:
In T215911#7027467, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

Will this be included in the next version of the configuration page?

That depends on @Tgr's ability to code-review it. My patch to make it possible should work :).

The patch was just merged, so the definite answer is "yes" :).

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.3; 2021-04-27).Apr 26 2021, 10:00 AM
Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 26 2021, 10:10 AM
Urbanecm_WMF closed this task as Resolved.May 14 2021, 2:00 PM
Urbanecm_WMF added a project: GrowthExperiments-EditGrowthConfig.Aug 3 2021, 11:02 PM
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