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Help panel: change placeholder text
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In looking at help panel and mentorship questions, we see a potential easy way to improve the quality of the questions newcomers ask.

Right now, the placeholder text reads, "I need some help with editing. How can I..." This seems to have caused many users to ask really short questions, just completing the placeholder sentence by something like "add a photo".

Here are some recent examples:

Let's change the placeholder text in both the mentorship module and help panel prompts to say:

"Say hello and ask your question."

Event Timeline

Moving this to Ready for Development because I imagine it will be quite easy. Please let me know if it's not.

Change 567443 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Help Panel: Reword placeholder text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/567443

Change 567443 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Help Panel: Reword placeholder text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/567443

I've added the task to pre- and post-deployment (wmf.19) checklist. In betalabs the translations were not yet displayed.

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I've added the task to pre- and post-deployment (wmf.19) checklist. In betalabs the translations were not yet displayed.

Screen Shot 2020-02-06 at 12.19.07 PM.png (264×516 px, 34 KB)

It is working now in ar beta

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I will check this out in production once it's deployed.

Checked in wmf.19 - arwiki and cswiki have the updated translation:

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@MMiller_WMF
kowiki and viwiki do not have the updated translation - see https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translations?message=MediaWiki%3Agrowthexperiments-help-panel-question-placeholder&namespace=8.