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Provide an option to only display the help panel when the user works on Suggested edits
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At the moment, the Help panel is visible at most pages people visit. Some users may find it annoying since the more experienced you are, the less you rely on this panel.

However, since the help panel is a key feature of Suggested edits, we should display only when users need it. Providing an option to only display the help panel when the user works on Suggested edits would be a nice to have. It would also help our scaling project, since we can diminish the impact of our features to (T296702: Scale: enable Growth features for existing accounts).

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kostajh subscribed.

We did this already in a patch attached to T284088: Merge preference "Enable the editor help panel" with "Display the newcomer homepage" together, namely rEGREc9be127cdbe3: SuggestedEdits: Always load help panel when doing a newcomer task.

If a user doesn't have the help panel preference enabled, we pretend that the preference is set for the duration of working on an article as part of the newcomer task flow. If the existing implementation looks good, could you resolve this task please @Trizek-WMF?