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Section-level images: exclude articles with infoboxes
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Description

Exclude articles with infoboxes from section-level image suggestions.
In other words, remove hastemplatecollection:infobox from section-level "add an image" Suggested edit results.

User story & summary:

As a new editor, I want to receive image suggestions that are likely to be accurate, so that I am less likely to complete an edit that ends up reverted.

As a patroller, I don't want newcomers adding images in a way that makes the article layout worse, because I want newcomers to make productive edits and not feel discouraged by reverted edits.

Background & research:

Images added to article sections need to be pertinent to the article section AND actually work with the current layout of the page.

This task is important because readers and patrollers care about the article layout, and images added to articles with an infobox often end up displayed outside of the section they are meant to be added to. Although there are likely more complex ways to fix this issue in a more targeted way, a relatively simple fix is to simply exclude articles that have an infobox.

Acceptance Criteria:

Given I'm a newcomer completing section-level image suggestions,
When I receive an image suggestion,
Then the article does NOT have an infobox

Event Timeline

We are in a better-safe-than-sorry use case there, right?

Adding images to articles with sections and an infobox is relevant. Theoretically, the section image is more precise than the infobox one.

The question is whether the image in the infobox is identical to the one suggested. If we can figure this out, then we can suggest images for an article that has an infobox.

We are in a better-safe-than-sorry use case there, right?
Adding images to articles with sections and an infobox is relevant. Theoretically, the section image is more precise than the infobox one.

Correct, this isn't a bug. This is a change that we should consider, but acknowledge that it has pros and cons:

  • CONS: This task will remove some suggestions that are actually relevant / good suggestions. This will reduce the number of section-level image suggestions that are available.
  • PROS: This will increase the likelihood that the suggestion is actually a good suggestion when you consider the article as a whole (because article layout matters). This task helps address part of the problem identified in T340497, in a very low-effort way.

The question is whether the image in the infobox is identical to the one suggested. If we can figure this out, then we can suggest images for an article that has an infobox.

My understanding is that the main issue is actually that articles with infoboxes often don't have enough room for more images.

I think it is a wise move. Thank you for the clarification.

This was discussed with Growth Ambassadors. It seems like this is more of an issue on some wikis than others.

We could also consider adding Community configuration for filtering out infobox articles, so communities can decide if they want to do this.