User story & summary:

As a newcomer, I want to make productive edits, so that my contribution is valued and not reverted.
As an experienced editor, I don't want newcomers to edit the same article again and again, because sometimes the article is in a good state but the maintenance template hasn't yet been removed. (Or perhaps the maintenance template is still applicable, but the newcomers simply don't yet have the knowledge to meaningfully improve the article).

Background & research:

This task is important because:

• Experienced editors from multiple communities have suggested we consider an improvement to avoid situations like this.
• User feedback: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ydiefxefrduyrhop "At a minimum, set up throttling, and limit newcomer tasks per article. There are 6.9 million of them, please don't send all the new editors to one article I am trying to maintain. Secondly, please do not send any newcomers to fix or add links that are not needed per the guideline, improperly formed, or piped when they should not be."

Solutions:

A simple solution to avoid surfacing an article as a Suggested Edit if the article has been edited within the last x days. Essentially, we’d filter out any articles edited recently, regardless of the edit type, whether it’s a Newcomer Task or a regular edit. This approach could address multiple issues, such as preventing newcomers from being directed to articles involved in ongoing edit wars or contentious current events. It also creates a lag between Newcomer edits, allowing more experienced editors time to update maintenance tags if needed.

The main drawback that comes to mind is this could reduce the number of available Suggested Edits for newcomers, so this task is to help us quickly learn enough to set x to a number that should be healthy for a wide range of wikis. (We might want to make this Community Configurable in the future, but we should still set a baseline that works well for most wikis).

Acceptance Criteria:

Research spike: examine the Suggested Edits task impact at a large wiki and a smaller wiki of setting x to 2 days, 4 days, 7 days. Share results in this task, and review with the Growth team
For example, providing the task type counts for English Wikipedia and Bengali Wikipedia. I'm open to including more wikis and more time frames if it's easy to grab this data. I'm imagining something similar to the Task type count example from Special:NewcomerTasksInfo: