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Suggestions: Define the meaning and label for the Dismiss/Skip button
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Background goal

This task involves the work of defining the meaning of, and label for, the dismiss/skip buttons that appear within Suggestion Cards.

The need for becoming clear about this emerged in response to the point @Esanders made in T415849#11569533 and the discussion it prompted here.

Possible copies for Button 2

CopyMeaningNotes
Dismiss (current copy)Close this suggestion and move on, with the sense that it’s not relevant right now.-
SkipDon’t apply this suggestion now and continue editing, without rejecting it.Users may be surprised to click skip, thinking it means "come back to this later" only to see it disappear from the list completely.
IgnoreIntentionally disregard this suggestion, which can feel dismissive or negative.-
Decline (same as Checks)Explicitly choose not to apply this suggestion, implying a more deliberate rejection.-

Open questions

  • 1. When you elect to Dismiss/Ignore/Decline/Skip/etc. a Suggestion, how – if at all – is that choice persisted across edit sessions? Read: if you dismiss Suggestion Z in Article 1 via Edit Session A will you see Suggestion Z again when you edit Article 1 via Edit Session B?
  • 2. Where (if at all) is data about declines surfaced on-wiki?

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bmartinezcalvo renamed this task from Define the meaning of, and label for, the dismiss/skip buttons within Suggestion Cards to Suggestions: Define the meaning and label for the Dismiss/Skip button.Feb 4 2026, 8:02 AM
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An existing example users might be familiar with is a document spell checker. Users are usually given 3 options: replace, skip and ignore. The difference between skip and ignore is that ignore suppresses the error for some amount of time, whereas skip leaves the error in the queue but just moves onto the next one.
Users may be surprised to click skip, thinking it means "come back to this later" only to see it disappear from the list completely.
For me, dismiss feels lighter than the other two (ignore/decline), and makes the user feel more comfortable it using it for suggestions they either don't feel equipped to solve, or don't care about.

ppelberg added a subscriber: Samwalton9-WMF.
  • 1. When you elect to Dismiss/Ignore/Decline/Skip/etc. a Suggestion, how – if at all – is that choice persisted across edit sessions? Read: if you dismiss Suggestion Z in Article 1 via Edit Session A will you see Suggestion Z again when you edit Article 1 via Edit Session B?

Adding the above to === Open questions. Great spot, @Samwalton9-WMF.

is that choice persisted across edit sessions?

Currently: no. Ideally: probably.

is that choice persisted across edit sessions?

Currently: no. Ideally: probably.

Agreed. Let's use T417949 to investigate what might be involved with enabling this.

@Esanders: what (if anything) is missing from/misrepresented about how Dismiss currently behaves...?

  1. Upon Person A tapping Dismiss on Suggestion 1 that appears on Article 1 within Edit Session 1, Suggestion 1 will disappear
  2. Upon Person A (or Person B/C/D) opening Article 1 in any subsequent edit session, Suggestion 1 will continue to appear until someone addresses the issue the suggestion is detecting