Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 5%
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	KStoller-WMF
	Dec 17 2024, 11:05 PM

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User story & summary:

As an experienced editor on English Wikipedia, I want the "Add a link" task released gradually, because I want to test the impact of the feature without overloading patrollers.

As a newcomer on English Wikipedia, I want access to easy first editing tasks that are structured and help me learn gradually, because I need a chance to gradually learn policies, editing norms, and how to edit.

Background & research:

We have released the "Add a link" Structured task to most Wikipedias as enabled. We feel confident in doing this as we've conducted several A/B tests that show this task is helping new editors get started:

However, we recognize that patrollers are sometimes frustrated with these tasks. We've outlined patroller feedback and some of the improvements we've completed to address concerns: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Community_feedback

Most Wikipedias have decided that the benefits of this task outweigh the additional burden it places on patrollers. However, at some of our larger wikis, we are first talking about the task with communities and letting communities decide if they want to enable this task.

Acceptance Criteria:

Increase the rollout of "Add a link" on English Wikipedia from 2% to 5% on January 7th, 2025.
@Trizek-WMF updates discussion on enwiki.

Details

Due Date: Jan 8 2025, 7:00 AM

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[Growth] enwiki: Deploy Add Link to 5% of users	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+4 -0

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Trizek-WMF	T304110 [EPIC] Deploy "add a link" to all Wikipedias
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T389018 [Epic] Add a Link (Structured Task): 100% Release at English Wikipedia
Resolved	Urbanecm_WMF	T382382 Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 5%
Resolved	• Iflorez	T382603 Add a link (Structured task): English Wikipedia A/B test & Experiment Analysis (FY24/25 WE1.2.11)
Resolved	Sdkb	T390613 Movement Communications Task: Share experiment results for enwiki "Add a Link" experiment & rollout communication
Duplicate	None	T394871 Communications: Sharing Add a link (Structured task) Experiment findings & rollout plan

Event Timeline

KStoller-WMF created this task.Dec 17 2024, 11:05 PM

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

KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 18 2024, 9:33 PM

KStoller-WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (Current Sprint); removed Growth-Team.Dec 19 2024, 4:29 PM

Perfect4th subscribed.Dec 20 2024, 4:22 AM

KStoller-WMF added a subtask: T382603: Add a link (Structured task): English Wikipedia A/B test & Experiment Analysis (FY24/25 WE1.2.11).Dec 20 2024, 5:50 PM

KStoller-WMF renamed this task from Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 5%.Dec 20 2024, 6:22 PM

KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

KStoller-WMF set Due Date to Jan 8 2025, 7:00 AM.

KStoller-WMF added subscribers: Urbanecm_WMF, Michael.Dec 20 2024, 6:28 PM

I posted a reminder to the community.

Thanks @Trizek-WMF! Correct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Growth_Team_features&diff=prev&oldid=1267755490.

Change #1108724 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth] enwiki: Deploy Add Link to 5% of users

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1108724

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 7 2025, 10:32 AM

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.Jan 7 2025, 10:36 AM

Change #1108724 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth] enwiki: Deploy Add Link to 5% of users

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1108724

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 7 2025, 11:30 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-01-07T23:36:04Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1108724|[Growth] enwiki: Deploy Add Link to 5% of users (T382382)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-01-07T23:42:19Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm: Backport for [[gerrit:1108724|[Growth] enwiki: Deploy Add Link to 5% of users (T382382)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-01-07T23:49:39Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1108724|[Growth] enwiki: Deploy Add Link to 5% of users (T382382)]] (duration: 13m 34s)