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"Add an image" for established editors
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Description

User Story:
As an established editor who receives an image suggestion, I want an easy way to add the image if it's an appropriate fit.

Background:

Established editors might benefit from having access to the "add an image" structured task, so they can quickly add images without having to navigate between Commons and Wikipedia.

Community Feedback:
Feedback about the current notifications for established users:

It doesn't give much help for inserting images. At a minimum, there could be a copyable sample and a direct link to the article in question. 1

Feedback about the "add an image" structured task:

It may not fit as a tool for new users in my opinion - but you are doing an experiment, which will tell more than the opinion of a user. I believe that it is an excellent tool for experienced users. 2

Acceptance Criteria:
Given I'm an experienced editor,
When I receive an image suggestion,
Then the notification provides the current details AND a link to add the image via the "add an image" workflow

Event Timeline

KStoller-WMF created this task.
KStoller-WMF moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.

The same workflow that's provided via the homepage could be exposed from the notifications used by Structured Data, with no GrowthExperiments code changes necessary (or maybe something tiny for analytics). It might be confusing/annoying though since the workflow is oriented around the homepage (e.g. we send the user to the homepage if the image recommendation turns out to be unusuable; the postedit notice also refers to the homepage).

This probably has a lot of overlap with T240513: Newcomer tasks: entry point in reading experience.

Don't we have a risk of experienced users emptying the queue of suggested images?

Don't we have a risk of experienced users emptying the queue of suggested images?

That's a legitimate concern that we've been discussing in the Image Suggestions Steering Committee. We want a better way to visualize coverage overtime, to see if this will end up being an issue now that experienced users are also getting image suggestions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Image_Suggestions

This task is just about adding a link in those existing notifications so that experienced users could complete the request via the "add an image" flow, rather than needing to navigate to multiple pages.

In October we sent ~18.5k notifications and 264 images were added as a result, so the work/impact ratio for notifications-for-experienced-users has so far been rather low. Are we sure about expending more effort on something that has made so little impact so far?

In October we sent ~18.5k notifications and 264 images were added as a result, so the work/impact ratio for notifications-for-experienced-users has so far been rather low. Are we sure about expending more effort on something that has made so little impact so far?

That's a good point.
I hypothesize that if we improve the UX by adding just one "add an image" CTA (rather than needing to open multiple tabs) then the completion rate would increase. But that's just a guess that might be incorrect.

Re @Cparle's comment, we first want to have a more clear idea and more consistent data on how experienced contributors interact with article and soon section image suggestion notifications, as well as do research for potential improvements. This is definitely one of the ways for improvements as discussed with @KStoller-WMF in the Image Suggestions Steering Committee.