This parent task represents the work of improving the accuracy of the username suggestion list that appears within the Reply and New Discussion Tools.
User Stories
| ID | Description | Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | As someone who is wanting to get the attention of another person, whose username I know and who has not yet commented in the discussion I am drafting a comment within/starting, I want to be able to quickly insert a ping, so that I can get back to drafting the comment I was in the middle of writing. | T294774 |
| 2. | As someone who is wanting to get the attention of another person who has commented in the discussion I am drafting a comment within/starting and who has set a different link label in their signature, I want to be able to quickly find their name within the username suggestion list, so that I can at-mention them and get back to drafting the comment I was in the middle of writing. | T266401 |
| 3. | As someone who is wanting to get the attention of another person who has not commented in the discussion I am drafting a comment within/starting and whose username I do NOT know exactly, I want to know whether I've typed their username correctly, so that I can confidently at-mention them and get back to drafting the comment I was in the middle of writing. | |
| 4. | As someone who is wanting to get the attention of the person whose comment I am responding to, I want to be able to quickly find their name within the username suggestion list, so that I can at-mention them and get back to drafting the comment I was in the middle of writing. | T269279 |
| 5. | As someone who is seeking input about a change I am considering making to an article, I want to be able to get the attention of other people who have discussed changes to said article before, so that I can know whether the change I am considering making is something others see as productive. | T277357 |
Background
When you type @ in the Reply tool, you get a list of usernames to ping.
When you type @W in the Reply tool, you get an alphabetical list of every existing account that starts with W: User:W, User:W ! x a, User:W & N Davis, etc. On a larger wiki, these are basically never the editors that you want to reach.
There are several ways to filter the list of suggested editors to be more useful. They include:
- de-prioritizing inactive users
- de-prioritizing blocked users
- prioritizing people who have previously edited that page
- using the CirrusSearch algorithm, which prioritizes editors whose names have been linked more frequently