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Announce availability of Suggestion Mode beta feature (en.wiki)
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Description

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

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Event Timeline

ppelberg renamed this task from Announce available of Suggestion Mode beta feature to Announce availability of Suggestion Mode beta feature.Jan 16 2026, 11:56 PM

Per offline discussion with @Quiddity, we're going to offer the Suggestion Mode beta feature in two phases:

  • Phase #1: en.wiki (T399611)
  • Phase #2: all other Wikipedias (T415320)

Rationale: we are splitting up the deployment into two phases so that we can afford volunteers the space to translate the Suggestion Mode UI string before the feature becomes available on-wiki.

ppelberg renamed this task from Announce availability of Suggestion Mode beta feature to Announce availability of Suggestion Mode beta feature (en.wiki).Thu, Jan 29, 11:51 PM
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