[Epic] Add a Link (Structured Task): 100% Release at English Wikipedia
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	Mar 16 2025, 8:37 PM

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The Growth team is gradually rolling out the "Add a Link" Structured Task at English Wikipedia.
This Epic is meant to make it easier to find the related rollout/release subtasks.

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.

Gradual rollout:

Related tasks:

Acceptance Criteria:

Movement Communications or Product to check in w/ Community: Wikipedia_talk:Growth_Team_features

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
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		MNeisler	T403843 Product Analytics: enwiki analysis of constructive edits pre & post release
Resolved		Urbanecm_WMF	T384551 Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 10%
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

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KStoller-WMF created this task.Mar 16 2025, 8:37 PM

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KStoller-WMF added a subtask: T388289: Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 20%.Mar 16 2025, 8:37 PM

KStoller-WMF added a subtask: T386029: Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 15%.

KStoller-WMF added a subtask: T384551: Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 10%.

KStoller-WMF added a subtask: T382382: Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 5%.

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

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Mar 21 2025, 4:11 PM

Etonkovidova closed subtask T388289: Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 20% as Resolved.Apr 1 2025, 1:23 AM

Samoasambia moved this task from Active Epics to Maintenance on the Growth-Team board.Apr 12 2025, 4:08 PM

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Samoasambia moved this task from Maintenance to Active Epics on the Growth-Team board.

Samoasambia edited projects, added Growth-Team; removed Growth-Team (Maintenance).

KStoller-WMF mentioned this in T390613: Movement Communications Task: Share experiment results for enwiki "Add a Link" experiment & rollout communication.Jun 11 2025, 10:41 PM

KStoller-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Sep 17 2025, 8:05 PM

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