Feature Flag: Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors
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User story & summary:

As the Growth team, I want to develop a new feature incrementally without it being exposed, because we need to complete several different related tasks before this feature should be exposed to editors.

Acceptance Criteria:

Create a feature flag for the "Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors" work
Feature flag name should follow our usual naming schema, something like GENewcomerTasksStarterDifficultyEnabled

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[beta] GrowthExperiments: enable limiting add a link task via config	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+3 -0
	Add feature flag for limiting "Add a Link" to new editors	mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments	master	+4 -0

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T368187 [EPIC] Constructive activation experimentation (Growth work related to Wiki Experiences 1.2)
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T389288 [Epic] Add a Link (Structured Task): Improvements to address community feedback (WE1.2.16, FY24/25)
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T386034 Add a Link: Community Configuration setting to allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors
Resolved	AAlhazwani-WMF	T390079 Design Exploration: Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors
Resolved	KStoller-WMF	T393688 Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors
Resolved	Cyndymediawiksim	T393923 Feature Flag: Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors

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KStoller-WMF created this task.May 12 2025, 3:52 PM

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as High priority.

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Inbox to Up Next (estimated tasks) on the Growth-Team board.

Michael edited parent tasks, added: T393688: Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors; removed: T390079: Design Exploration: Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editors .May 12 2025, 4:06 PM

KStoller-WMF set the point value for this task to 1.May 12 2025, 4:09 PM

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Up Next (estimated tasks) to Current Sprint on the Growth-Team board.May 13 2025, 12:26 PM

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

Feature flag name TBD: something like starter-task or starter-difficulty?

Let's go with starter-difficulty, so something like GENewcomerTasksStarterDifficultyEnabled.

Michael updated the task description. (Show Details)May 13 2025, 1:15 PM

Thanks @Michael , for the clarification :)

Change #1145202 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cyndywikime; author: Cyndywikime):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Add feature flag for limiting "Add a Link" to new editors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1145202

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 13 2025, 1:49 PM

Cyndymediawiksim moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.May 13 2025, 1:56 PM

Change #1145202 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Add feature flag for limiting "Add a Link" to new editors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1145202

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 15 2025, 12:31 PM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20).May 15 2025, 1:00 PM

Since patches are merged and the flag is not yet used I'm tentatively resolving this task.

Change #1154282 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sergio Gimeno; author: Sergio Gimeno):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [beta] GrowthExperiments: enable limiting add a link task via config

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1154282

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 6 2025, 12:22 PM

Change #1154282 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [beta] GrowthExperiments: enable limiting add a link task via config

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1154282

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 10 2025, 1:31 PM

Urbanecm_WMF added a project: GrowthExperiments-NewcomerTasks.Wed, Jan 21, 2:34 PM

Feature Flag: Allow limiting "Add a Link" to new editorsClosed, ResolvedPublic1 Estimated Story PointsActions