This task involves the work of drafting and publishing an announcement at en.wiki to inform volunteers about the availability of Suggestion Mode as as a beta feature.
Meta
- Announcement location(s): en:wp:vpt
- Announcement timing: by EOD, Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Requirements
What follows are the questions the announcement will need to help the volunteers reading it answer:
Required
- Why are we building Suggestion Mode? What problems it it meant to address?
- How can people test the feature ahead of Thursday's Beta Feature deployment?
- Who will, and crucially, will not the feature become available for on Thursday?
- How will volunteers trying the feature be able to share feedback about it?
- How can volunteers monitor the edits people are making using Suggestion Mode?
- What Suggestions will be available within Suggestion Mode as part of this initial release?
- What facets of Suggestion Mode/the Suggestions within it can volunteers configure? Highlight "exclude ==Sources== section in English" from the External Links check, as example.
Nice to have
- Where have we talked about the feature before?
Draft
@Quiddity to draft
Suggestion Mode - draft announcement for Enwiki Beta Feature
Done
- Ensure mw:VE/Suggestion Mode is updated
- Ensure mw:Edit check/Deployment status is updated to include all Edit Suggestions
- Share post