Remove GuidedTour from Special:Investigate
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	Niharika
	Oct 1 2020, 8:00 PM

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Goal

Following our discussion in T263540: Consolidate CheckUser front-end modules we should remove the GuidedTour feature once it has outlived its utility.

Questions:

Can we get any metrics about how many times:

GT popups were displayed?
users clicked through the GT popups?

These are addressed in T265106.

Acceptance criteria

Remove the GuidedTour feature and modules from the extension - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser/+/1187434
Delete the preferences checkuser-investigate-tour-seen and checkuser-investigate-form-tour-seen from user_options tables (see maintenance/userOptions.php)
Update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser to add that the preferences checkuser-investigate-tour-seen and checkuser-investigate-form-tour-seen can be deleted from the user_options table after 1.45 - https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension%3ACheckUser&diff=7894367&oldid=7892029

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Zuul: [mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser] Remove dependency on GuidedTour	integration/config	master	+1 -1
Remove guided tour for Special:Investigate	mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser	REL1_44	+1 -503
Remove guided tour for Special:Investigate	mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser	master	+1 -503

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T405220: GrowthExperiments: AddImage.cy.ts and AddALink.cy.ts fail in CI when GuidedTour is not installed
T403265: Unify navigation between CheckUser special pages
T259274: CU 2.0: GuidedTour: Esc should permanently dismiss tour
Mentioned Here: T265106: Capture metrics about usage of GuidedTour on Special:Investigate pages
T263540: Consolidate CheckUser front-end modules

Event Timeline

Niharika created this task.Oct 1 2020, 8:00 PM

Niharika triaged this task as Medium priority.

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Niharika moved this task from Untriaged to Onboarding Tasks on the Anti-Harassment-Team board.Oct 2 2020, 5:59 PM

Can we get any metrics

This should be recorded under Schema:GuidedTour. Query for the tourName of checkuserinvestigateform (the initial form page) and checkuserinvestigate (after starting an investigation).

In T264359#6513983, @dbarratt wrote:

Can we get any metrics

This should be recorded under Schema:GuidedTour. Query for the tourName of checkuserinvestigateform (the initial form page) and checkuserinvestigate (after starting an investigation).

Oh thanks @dbarratt. @jwang Flagging this for you. Let's talk about this in our next 1:1.

In T264359#6513983, @dbarratt wrote:

Can we get any metrics

This should be recorded under Schema:GuidedTour. Query for the tourName of checkuserinvestigateform (the initial form page) and checkuserinvestigate (after starting an investigation).

Quick correction - @jwang and I found out that that schema is actually inactive (see talk page) and there are 6 new schemas instead of it. One of which is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:GuidedTourGuiderImpression

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jwang updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 27 2020, 4:20 PM

Move data analysis result to analytics ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265106

Tchanders moved this task from Onboarding Tasks to Product/Tech backlog on the Anti-Harassment-Team board.Feb 1 2021, 1:32 PM

Niharika added a project: AHT-Roadmap.Apr 15 2021, 1:51 PM

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Dreamy_Jazz moved this task from Inbox to Investigate on the CheckUser board.Jul 16 2022, 11:53 PM

@Niharika is this ticket still needed? Could it be closed now?

TAdeleye_WMF edited projects, added Trust and Safety Product Team; removed Anti-Harassment-Team.May 14 2024, 4:22 PM

@Niharika should we remove GuidedTour integration with Special:Investigate?

kostajh mentioned this in T259274: CU 2.0: GuidedTour: Esc should permanently dismiss tour.Aug 16 2024, 2:13 PM

In T264359#10069565, @kostajh wrote:

@Niharika should we remove GuidedTour integration with Special:Investigate?

I would advocate removing the tour, as it is now fully deployed on all wikis and has been enabled by default on third-party wikis for a while.

It will also allow removing some resourceloader modules, making the CSS/JS content load of CheckUser smaller.

Yes I think it's safe to remove it now.

Per T264359#10159362 we should work on dropping the guided tour. Doing this will:

Reduce code complication
Remove 2 ResourceLoader modules (the total number of modules on WMF wikis has been raised as an issue)

Dreamy_Jazz moved this task from Inbox to Engineering on the Trust and Safety Product Team board.Aug 6 2025, 12:54 PM

Dreamy_Jazz set the point value for this task to 1.Aug 11 2025, 2:11 PM

OKryva-WMF added a project: Essential-Work.Aug 13 2025, 3:30 PM

mszwarc mentioned this in T403265: Unify navigation between CheckUser special pages.Aug 29 2025, 2:01 PM

Dreamy_Jazz edited projects, added Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Dadar Gulung (September 8 - September 26)); removed Trust and Safety Product Sprint.Sep 10 2025, 5:49 PM

Dreamy_Jazz moved this task from Priority Backlog to Ready on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Dadar Gulung (September 8 - September 26)) board.

Tchanders claimed this task.Sep 11 2025, 12:43 PM

Tchanders moved this task from Ready to In Progress on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Dadar Gulung (September 8 - September 26)) board.

Change #1187434 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; author: Tchanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Remove guided tour for Special:Investigate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1187434

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 11 2025, 12:59 PM

Change #1187443 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; author: Tchanders):

[integration/config@master] Remove dependency on GuidedTour from CheckUser

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1187443

Tchanders updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 11 2025, 4:56 PM

Tchanders moved this task from In Progress to Needs Review on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Dadar Gulung (September 8 - September 26)) board.Sep 11 2025, 5:02 PM

Change #1187434 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Remove guided tour for Special:Investigate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1187434

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.19; 2025-09-16).Sep 12 2025, 1:01 PM

The GuidedTour part has been removed, so AFAICS it just means updating the CheckUser documentation on mediawiki.org (so moving back to 'In Progress' for that)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/1187443 has received a +1 from me and requires merging by someone outside the team

Tchanders updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 19 2025, 9:51 AM

Preferences for checkuser-investigate-form-tour-seen and checkuser-investigate-tour-seen were deleted via maintenance scripts on all wikis.

Moving this to Done - we can close it once https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/1187443 is merged (another reviewer was added).

Change #1189885 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Tchanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@REL1_44] Remove guided tour for Special:Investigate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189885

Change #1189885 abandoned by Dreamy Jazz:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@REL1_44] Remove guided tour for Special:Investigate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189885

Change #1187443 merged by jenkins-bot:

[integration/config@master] Zuul: [mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser] Remove dependency on GuidedTour

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1187443

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-releng) [2025-09-22T10:40:08Z] <James_F> Zuul: [mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser] Remove dependency on GuidedTour, for T264359

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 22 2025, 11:31 AM

Thanks for merging the CI config change. Marking this as resolved

kostajh mentioned this in T405220: GrowthExperiments: AddImage.cy.ts and AddALink.cy.ts fail in CI when GuidedTour is not installed.Sep 22 2025, 11:56 AM

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Remove GuidedTour from Special:InvestigateClosed, ResolvedPublic1 Estimated Story PointsActions