Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 10%
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	KStoller-WMF
	Jan 22 2025, 10:41 PM

Description

Increase Rollout Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025.

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 5% to 10% on January 28, 2025.
@KStoller-WMF updates discussion on enwiki.

Details

Due Date: Jan 28 2025, 8:00 AM

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 10% of newcomers	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	T384551 Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 10%

Event Timeline

KStoller-WMF created this task.Jan 22 2025, 10:41 PM

We could revisit this task depending on the response to my suggestion to program future increases.

KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 24 2025, 7:25 PM

KStoller-WMF assigned this task to Urbanecm_WMF.Jan 26 2025, 11:11 PM

KStoller-WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (Current Sprint); removed Growth-Team.

KStoller-WMF set Due Date to Jan 28 2025, 8:00 AM.

Change #1114379 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 10% of newcomers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1114379

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 27 2025, 1:34 PM

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.Jan 27 2025, 1:38 PM

Change #1114379 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 10% of newcomers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1114379

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-01-28T08:16:46Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1114379|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 10% of newcomers (T384551)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-01-28T08:23:19Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm: Backport for [[gerrit:1114379|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 10% of newcomers (T384551)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-01-28T08:33:33Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1114379|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 10% of newcomers (T384551)]] (duration: 16m 46s)