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Deploy new categories for enwiki trial
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Description

Background

As part of the English Wikipedia trial of the Incident Reporting System (IRS), we need to update the set of report categories to better reflect enwiki use cases and community expectations. This involves adding new categories and removing some existing ones.

Task

We need to:

  • Add new categories:
    • Illegitimate use of multiple accounts (sockpuppetry)
    • Vandalism
    • Disruptive editing
    • Disputes with another user
    • Other
  • Remove existing categories:
    • Spam or promotional content
    • Something Else

Acceptance criteria

  • Resulting category set for enwiki trial:
    • Bullying, intimidation, threats, or insults
    • Sexual harassment
    • Exposing private personal information (doxxing)
    • Trolling or Hounding (Stalking)
    • Hateful or discriminatory content
    • Illegitimate use of multiple accounts (sockpuppetry)
    • Vandalism
    • Disruptive editing
    • Disputes with another user
    • Other

Event Timeline

STran renamed this task from Add new categories for enwiki trial to Deploy new categories for enwiki trial.Apr 21 2026, 8:48 AM
STran claimed this task.

Change #1275816 had a related patch set uploaded (by STran; author: STran):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Deploy new categories to enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1275816

Change #1275816 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Deploy new non-emergency categories to enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1275816