This task involves the work within consulting with volunteers to learn how they can imagine people acting in bad faith exploiting Edit Check to vandalize Wikipedia and/or disrupt/harm the people who are contributing to it in good faith.
Decision(s) to be made
This consultation this task is describing is intended to help the Editing Team decide the following...
- 1. What – if any – changes need to be made to the Edit Check user experience in order to decrease the likelihood that people acting in bad faith could use it to vandalize Wikipedia and/or disrupt/harm the people who are contributing to it in good faith.
Requirements
Consultation Audiences
- Patrollers/Reviewers interested in solutions designed to increase the quality of edits and as a result, increase their capacity to think about more complex/high impact moderation challenges interested in solutions designed to increase the quality of edits and as a result, increase their capacity to think about more complex/high impact moderation challenges
- Gadget and Script Authors interested in helping to shape a new tool being designed to proactively educate and guide newcomers to make changes they feel proud of and changes that improve Wikipedia
Learning Objectives
- How can experienced volunteers, who are practiced with patrolling for vandalism, imagine people acting in bad faith exploiting Edit Check to vandalize Wikipedia and/or harm the people who contribute to it in good faith?
- TBD
Mockups
@nayoub to add mockups for volunteers to review.
Findings
| Description | Scenario | Mitigation strategy | Ticket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Re-use" a reference already present on the page to disguise a vandalistic contribution | Remove the "Re-use" tab the Edit Check "add citation" workflow | @Sdkb named this scenario in the 3 March 2023 Editing Team Community Conversation | |