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Instrument the steps on the Article Guidance workflow
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Description

As part of Article Guidance (T396029) first intervention, a new workflow will support editors as they start the creation of an article (T414409). We want to understand the funnel for users navigating this new workflow.

This ticket proposes to instrument each step of the workflow so that we can capture:

  • How many users move through the workflow.
  • What the drop-off rate for each step is.

Some additional elements that can be useful to provide context to understand better the results:

  • Type of article the user was trying to create, and whether it is supported (i.e., has an outline defined for it).
  • Edit count. User editing experience.
  • Wiki. Which of the pilot wikis the user is in.

Ideally, the analysis should cover from the entry points to the publication of the article.

Event Timeline

The instrumentation spec has been drafted by @MNeisler and is ready for engineering review here

SBisson changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Apr 8 2026, 6:59 PM
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Change #1270523 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; author: Sbisson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Instrumentation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1270523

Since instrumentation is a key piece for the experiment, we may want to have a process for verifying that the user activity through the Article Guidance workflow is correctly captured, including the entry points (T420385, T421224) to access the workflow.

Change #1275448 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; author: Sbisson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Deduplicate redirect hooks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1275448

Change #1275448 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Deduplicate redirect hooks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1275448

Change #1270523 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] AG Workflow Instrumentation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1270523

Parking this here for now but I'm not sure it can be fully resolved until the automated analysis using the instrumentation data is up and running. See T422146: Experiment config and schema registration (Article Guidance initial intervention)

Change #1278624 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; author: Sbisson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Instrumentation follow up

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1278624

Change #1278624 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Instrumentation follow up

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1278624