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Publish documentation volunteers can use to help configure Edit Check
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Description

T330112 will make it possible for volunteers, on a per-project basis, to configure Edit Check in ways that ways that guide newscomers and Junior Contributors to make choices that align with project policies and norms.

This task involves the work with publishing a help page that will equip experienced volunteers with the information they need to configure Edit Check in ways that will:

  1. Increase the likelihood that Edit Check prompts newcomers and Junior Contributors (the people who will be theoretically receiving feedback from Edit Check) to make choices that align with project policies and conventions
  2. Decrease the likelihood that Edit Check will become activated when volunteers think it should not be

Objectives

The help page this task is asking for ought to offer volunteers what they need to:

  1. Understand the meaning/impact/scope of each configuration value/facet
  2. Know how to go about changing a particular configuration value/facet
  3. Know what to do if/when they encounter an issue while attempting to configure Edit Check

Done

  • Publish page
  • Notify stewards of potential for requests

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@DLynch: can you please update the Configurable values section of mw:Edit_check/Configuration to include the following "configurable facets" we implemented in T330112:

  1. Account state
  2. Experience level

...it looks like minimumCharacters and beforePunctuation are already covered.