As part of Article Guidance (T396029) first intervention, we plan to help junior editors when they try to create an article. Given that the intended impact is about reducing deletion rate (T414503), the specific entry points were not defined as part of the main workflow (T414409).
This ticket is intended to explore the specific entry points that can be useful for the experiment.
Considerations:
- Entry points proposed should work in an A/B testing context. That is, considering that half of the users using the entry point will be directed to the new feature, while the other half will be sent directly to Visual Editor (without additional guidance), the entry point should not anticipate the destination in any way. For example, we cannot show an invite to "try the new guided experience", since half of the users will get the old experience instead.
- We should be careful increasing the volume of contributions. Enabling very prominent entry points can bring an influx of new articles: half of it with the old experience (which we know it often leads to deletion), and half to the new experience (before we have validated to which extent the proposal helps reduce low quality contributions). As a consequence, even if the proposal achieves a lower deletion rate, due to an increase of contribution volume and the effects of a/b testing, the overall number of low quality articles may actually increase.
- Only a small set of article types will be supported. As part of the initial intervention, guidance will be provided only for a limited set of article types. We may need to consider how the entry point works under that limitation.
Proposed entry points
After the previous investigation in T414535#11620008, the design exploration and iterating it based on feedback, I'm sharing an initial proposal for entry points for Article Guidance.
The proposal covers two sets of entry points:
- For the experiment. Two entry points supporting different situations:
- Red links with criteria (T420385). Red links represent missing pages identified by the community. A criteria based on the specific page or category will determine which redlinks are part of the experiment.
- Turkish Wikipedia homepage (T421224). Turkish Wikipedia has an existing visible entry point for article creation on their home page, that connects with Article Wizard.
- For the community to try and adjust the guidance (results excluded from the experiment). To allow communities (in pilot wikis and beyond) to try the feature, provide guidance for new types of articles and quickly check how it works, we propose two entry points:
- Direct access to special page. Direct access to the Article Guidance feature to try it.
- Outline pages (T420457). Communities define guidance for a specific article type in an outline page. Providing an option to try the creation of contents using the guideline will facilitate the cycle of adjusting and trying the feature for communities.
Each entry point is detailed in the corresponding sections below (and designs in Figma). For each of them there is a common set of measurements that will help understand how are they working.
Aspects to observe:
- Percentage of article creation left out of the experiment.
- Percentage of topics in the new guided experience for which there was no guidance available.
- Alignment of control group deletion rate with baseline, to check whether the article creation considered for the experiment is representative of the broader picture.
- Break down results by type of topic to evaluate the effectiveness of different types of guidance.
Red links with criteria (T420385)
Homepage (T421224)
Direct access to special page (excluded from experiment results)
Outline pages (T420457) (excluded from experiment results)
Other ideas for the future
Some ideas that were discussed during early explorations and we can consider for the future:
- Contribute menu. The Contribute menu (T322740) is intended to list contribution activities and make them accessible from the contributions page. The option to create a new article can be a simple and persistent entry point to support.
- Link from relevant wikiproject/campaign/event pages. On community collaborative initiatives such as wiki projects that focus on supported article types, a link to contribute can be included that works as an entry point for the experiment.
- Invite to expand with a section after an article. For articles of a supported type, an option to expand with common sections can be shown below the article contents.
- (feel free to suggest more ideas)
