Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 20%
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	KStoller-WMF
	Mar 8 2025, 12:52 AM

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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 rollout of "Add a link" task to newcomers at English Wikipedia:

Movement Communications or Product to check in w/ Community: Wikipedia_talk:Growth_Team_features
Movement Communications or Product to follow up w/ Community after change: Wikipedia_talk:Growth_Team_features

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+4 -0

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		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	Feb 20 2025	Urbanecm_WMF	T386029 Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 15%
Resolved		Cyndymediawiksim	T388289 Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 20%
Resolved	Sep 3 2025	Cyndymediawiksim	T395524 Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 100%
Resolved		Cyndymediawiksim	T402769 Remove no-link-recommendation variant from GrowthExperiments
Resolved		Sdkb	T390613 Movement Communications Task: Share experiment results for enwiki "Add a Link" experiment & rollout communication
Resolved		MNeisler	T403843 Product Analytics: enwiki analysis of constructive edits pre & post release

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KStoller-WMF created this task.Mar 8 2025, 12:52 AM

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Blocked / Needs Work on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.

KStoller-WMF set the point value for this task to 0.5.

KStoller-WMF mentioned this in T389018: [Epic] Add a Link (Structured Task): 100% Release at English Wikipedia.Mar 16 2025, 8:37 PM

KStoller-WMF added a parent task: T389018: [Epic] Add a Link (Structured Task): 100% Release at English Wikipedia.

Just updated the community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Growth_Team_features#Add_a_Link:_rollout_increase_to_20%

However, let's leave this blocked for another day or two to make room for objections.

No objections were raised, let's scale to 20%!

Cyndymediawiksim claimed this task.Mar 24 2025, 9:35 AM

Cyndymediawiksim moved this task from Incoming to Doing on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.

Change #1130532 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cyndywikime; author: Cyndywikime):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1130532

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 24 2025, 9:51 AM

Cyndymediawiksim moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.Mar 24 2025, 9:52 AM

Change #1130532 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1130532

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-24T13:06:33Z] <tgr@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1129229|CommonSettings: Migrate CentralNotice to Virtual Domains (T389348)]], [[gerrit:1130532|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers (T388289)]], [[gerrit:1130128|[Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment (T383801)]], [[gerrit:1130169|Enable Section Translation and Unified Dashboard on all wikipedias (T387821)]]

Stashbot mentioned this in T387821: Deploy unified dashboard on more wikis (phase 3).Mar 24 2025, 1:06 PM

Stashbot mentioned this in T389348: Migrate CentralNotice to virtual domains.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-24T13:11:20Z] <tgr@deploy1003> reedy, sfaci, tgr, cyndywikime, sbisson: Backport for [[gerrit:1129229|CommonSettings: Migrate CentralNotice to Virtual Domains (T389348)]], [[gerrit:1130532|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers (T388289)]], [[gerrit:1130128|[Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment (T383801)]], [[gerrit:1130169|Enable Section Translation and Unified Dashboard on all wikipedias (T387821)]] synced t

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-24T13:23:19Z] <tgr@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1129229|CommonSettings: Migrate CentralNotice to Virtual Domains (T389348)]], [[gerrit:1130532|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers (T388289)]], [[gerrit:1130128|[Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment (T383801)]], [[gerrit:1130169|Enable Section Translation and Unified Dashboard on all wikipedias (T387821)]] (duration: 16m 45s)