Provide an empty state message to indicate when there is no suggested edit type for a given task level
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	Mar 30 2021, 1:50 PM

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Problem

In this case:

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We should do something to avoid this odd blank space we have now.

Of course, the ideal plan is to have the right templates that would fit there. But sometimes it is not the case.

Some communities we work with on scaling may not have the templates we need. This is the case for Serbio-Croatian, where I took this screenshot.
We can have communities that could remove things from MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json without us noticing it.

Proposed solution

When any level of task difficulty has zero task types, show a explanatory text string (copy TBC)

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Trizek-WMF	T247507 Scale: deploy Growth features to 100 wikis
		Open		None	T278825 Provide an empty state message to indicate when there is no suggested edit type for a given task level

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Mar 30 2021, 1:50 PM

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Serbio-Croatian will probably get Suggested Edits without any Easy tasks.

We have two possibilities there:

Hide the "Easy" section, which would probably confuse users
Leave a message saying something like "no tasks have been defined for this wiki".

@RHo, what do you think?

In T278825#6999857, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

Serbio-Croatian will probably get Suggested Edits without any Easy tasks.

We have two possibilities there:

Hide the "Easy" section, which would probably confuse users

Leave a message saying something like "no tasks have been defined for this wiki".

@RHo, what do you think?

Hi @Trizek-WMF - I agree it would be confusing to hide a difficulty level, and think your message idea works well. Maybe something like "No tasks at this level at the moment" to indicate that this might change? Also, we could then re-use the same message for any level where there are zero task types attached.

RHo renamed this task from If there is no suggested edit for a given task level, it should be indicated or we should hide this level to Provide an empty state message to indicate when there is no suggested edit type for a given task level.Apr 15 2021, 12:02 PM

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MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 6:47 PM

Thank you @RHo! :)

MMiller_WMF added a subscriber: MMiller_WMF.Apr 21 2021, 6:11 PM

I think that there is one other thing we'll need to change to be robust to this case. Right now, we say that all users should default to the Easy tasks. But for this wiki's case, we would want to default them to Medium tasks. In other words, I think we should generalize the rule from "default to the easy tasks" to "default to the easiest tasks available".

@Urbanecm_WMF -- can you comment on everything in this task? It is likely that this work would go to you for scaling purposes.

See T280832: Generalize the rule from "default to the easy tasks" to "default to the easiest tasks available"..

Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T280832: Generalize the rule from "default to the easy tasks" to "default to the easiest tasks available"..Apr 21 2021, 6:31 PM

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