Allow EditChecks to be check-only or suggestion-only
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	DLynch
	Nov 6 2025, 6:25 PM

Description

Currently all checks will appear as both checks (about content you wrote) and suggestions (about content you didn't write).

We should be able to flag a given check as being only a check or a suggestion.

Uncertain: whether this should be done at a code level (like which moments a check can show in) or via config.

Requirements

Make it possible for an Edit Suggestion (e.g. external link, duplicate link, engvar, etc.) to appear within Suggestion Mode without needing it to appear as an Edit Check

Note: the work e ability to "robustly" configure suggestions so that we can make it possible to determine what Suggestions are available to newcomers in the experiment (T404600) and the experienced volunteers we assume will have the beta feature enabled (T399611) will happen in T410524.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	EditCheck: Allow checks to be suggestion-only	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+5 -1

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T360489 [EPIC] Generate and present edit suggestions at scale
Open		None	T414853 [MILESTONE] Deploy Suggestion Mode as a default-on feature.
Open		None	T404600 [MILESTONE] Run controlled experiment of Suggestion Mode MVP
Resolved		ppelberg	T415320 [MILESTONE] Deploy Suggestion Mode MVP as a beta feature (all Wikipedias)
Resolved		ppelberg	T399611 [MILESTONE] Deploy Suggestion Mode MVP as a beta feature (en.wiki)
Resolved	Feature	medelius	T409476 Allow EditChecks to be check-only or suggestion-only

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DLynch created this task.Nov 6 2025, 6:25 PM

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ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team (Planning); removed Editing-team.Nov 6 2025, 6:26 PM

DLynch renamed this task from Allow an EditChecks to be check-only or suggestion-only to Allow EditChecks to be check-only or suggestion-only.Nov 6 2025, 8:41 PM

Note that creating the possibility for a suggestion that isn't a check is going to require some changes to be made to the suggestions MVP, because currently the overlap is relied on for filtering out suggestions from user-edited content. (Unless such a suggestion should become the only type of suggestion that can show in user-edited content, of course...)

ppelberg moved this task from Inbox to Needs Discussion on the Editing-team (Planning) board.Dec 17 2025, 6:23 PM

T410524 is relevant.

ppelberg mentioned this in T413159: [Meta] Create a Phabricator template for Suggestion Tasks.Dec 19 2025, 6:00 AM

In T409476#11470109, @DLynch wrote:

T410524 is relevant.

Agreed and to what extent do you think this ticket and T410524 are actually one in the same?

ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026); removed Editing-team (Planning).Jan 16 2026, 11:32 PM

ppelberg mentioned this in T399611: [MILESTONE] Deploy Suggestion Mode MVP as a beta feature (en.wiki).Jan 16 2026, 11:41 PM

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 21 2026, 6:35 PM

ppelberg moved this task from Decisions to be made to Ready to Be Worked On on the Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026) board.

ppelberg added a parent task: T399611: [MILESTONE] Deploy Suggestion Mode MVP as a beta feature (en.wiki).

ppelberg mentioned this in T410524: Enable Edit Checks and Suggestions to be independently configured.Jan 21 2026, 6:39 PM

ldelench_wmf added a project: OKR-Work.Jan 21 2026, 6:53 PM

Of the suggestions we have built to date, are there any that we wouldn't want to show as checks?

In T409476#11548831, @Esanders wrote:

Of the suggestions we have built to date, are there any that we wouldn't want to show as checks?

Yep:

Name	Check	Suggestion Mode	Notes
Paste Check	✅ Yes	N/A	At present, we do not persist any info about pasted content between edit sessions. As such, I do not think it is currently possibly to show Paste Check as a suggestion.
Tone Check	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Reference Check	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Convert Reference	❌ No	✅ Yes
Disambiguation link	❌ No	✅ Yes
External link	❌ No	✅ Yes
Heading level	❌ No	✅ Yes
Image needs caption	❌ No	✅ Yes
textMatch	❌ No	✅ Yes

For context, the thinking reflected in the table above is drawn from

ppelberg triaged this task as High priority.Jan 27 2026, 12:49 AM

ppelberg attached a referenced file: F57289377: Screenshot 2024-08-23 at 4.17.34 PM.png. (Show Details)Jan 27 2026, 12:51 AM

ppelberg mentioned this in T414650: Revisit configuration values of all deployed Checks/Suggestions to ensure they align with expectations.Jan 27 2026, 1:13 AM

Change #1233828 had a related patch set uploaded (by Medelius; author: Medelius):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] EditCheck: Allow checks to be suggestion-only

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1233828

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 27 2026, 8:59 PM

Change #1233828 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] EditCheck: Allow checks to be suggestion-only

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1233828

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 28 2026, 4:31 AM

medelius claimed this task.Jan 28 2026, 4:46 AM

medelius moved this task from Ready to Be Worked On to QA on the Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026) board.

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.14; 2026-02-03).Jan 28 2026, 5:00 AM

ppelberg mentioned this in T329596: Introduce the ability to assign Checks/Suggestions a priority level.Jan 29 2026, 12:27 AM

ldelench_wmf lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Feb 2 2026, 6:21 PM

ldelench_wmf closed this task as Resolved.Feb 2 2026, 7:36 PM

ldelench_wmf added a project: Skipped QA.

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