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Publish Paste Check controlled experiment plan
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Description

This task involves the work of drafting and publishing an announcement about Paste Check that includes information about both:

  1. The proposed user experience
  2. The controlled experiment the Editing Team is preparing to run to evaluate the feature's impact

Timline

Per what @Trizek-WMF, @MNeisler, and I (peter) discussed offline in separate conversations on 3 and 4 September, ideally the timeline for Paste Check will look like this:

MilestoneTarget Completion DateResponsibleStatusNotes
Publish announcement16 Sep 2025@Trizek-WMF1st draft complete; review underway
Start test22 Sep 2025Editing Engineering
End test31 October 2025Editing Engineering
NOTE: for a full timeline, please see T399669

Learning objectives

  1. User experience: how – if at all – do experienced volunteers think the proposed user experience could either a) create more work for patrollers/reviewers or b) cause newcomers to publish edits that are not aligned with Wikipedia policies
  2. Controlled experiment: what – if anything – do experienced volunteers think needs revising/discussion/etc. before the controlled experiment can begin?

Wikis

While we are interested in hearing from volunteers across all Wikipedias, the Editing Team will prioritize outreach to the wikis listed in T403680 first.

Requirements

  • An announcement is drafted that we think will be effective at causing volunteers to offer the feedback we need to answer the questions described in the Learning objectives section above
  • This announcement is published at the wikis listed/referenced in the Wikis section above

Event Timeline

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)
ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Movement Communications on the Editing-team (Tracking) board.
ppelberg added a subscriber: MNeisler.
ppelberg renamed this task from Create Paste Check controlled experiment communications plan to Publish Paste Check controlled experiment plan.Sep 18 2025, 9:38 PM

All wikis (minus three), from T403637, have been informed of the upcoming project.

So far, no direct reactions, except Italian Wikipedia, where they look forward to testing it.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)

All wikis (minus three), from T403637, have been informed of the upcoming project.

So far, no direct reactions, except Italian Wikipedia, where they look forward to testing it.

Per above, work on this ended up happening in T403680 which is now resolved so we can consider this ticket resolved as well.