This task involves the work of defining the initial set of suggestions that will be available in the "Suggestion Mode" MVP when it is released as a Beta Feature which is planned to happen in January/February 2026.
Decision(s) to be made
- What existing Edit Checks will we convert to suggestions and offer within Suggestion Mode, to start?
- See "Requirements" below.
Requirements
Of all the Edit Suggestions that are currently built, the table below describes those that we would like for people who have the Suggestion Mode beta feature (T404603) enabled to have the potential to see.
NOTE: "potential" in this context means the Suggestion could show were someone to edit an article that contains content that causes a given Suggestion to activate.
| Name | Enabled by default in Suggestion Mode (Y/N) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Paste Check | N/A | We do not currently persist paste annotations across edit sessions |
| Tone Check | ✅ yes | |
| Reference Check | ✅ yes | |
| Convert Reference | ✅ yes | |
| Disambiguation link | ✅ yes | |
| External link | ✅ yes | |
| Heading level | ✅ yes | |
| Image needs caption | ✅ yes | |
| textMatch ("AI tells") | ✅ yes | |
| textMatch ("Engvar") | ✅ yes | |
| Duplicate links ("Engvar") | ✅ yes | |
| Link redirect | ❌ no | Too complicated and controversial, per the extensive warnings against it in en:Wikipedia:Redirect. We will reconsider this as part of T415320 |
| Year link label misalignment | ✅ yes | |
Please consider offline comments from @Sdkb.
Done
- Team aligns on state of current suggestions by documenting the currently-available suggestions in the Requirements section above
- @ppelberg converges on Suggestion configurations
- Editing Engineering makes the necessary changes (if any) to match Requirements