As part of the Article Guidance work (T396029), users are provided with community-defined guidance and contents.
We want to make it clear that the contents and the guidance come from the community (who is in control of the outlines) to avoid assumptions of those being predefined in the tool or generated automatically. We want to do this in a way that is clear but nondistracting.
For example, some ideas we can consider for the community guidance step (T415486), previous to reaching VE:
- Adjust the message "Here are a few tips to help you write a great article." to be something aong the lines of "Here are a few tips from the community of editors to help you write a great article."
- Remove the "Make sure you have reliable, independent sources about this subject before you start." messae sinc ethat is not coming form the outlines and may blend with the previous content.
- Add a message next to "Start writing" to indicate that will happen "With suggested contents by the community to get you started" or similar.
These are just examples; we may want to explore where and how to provide this type of clarifications as part of this task.
Proposed change
On the guidance screen (before the editor opens), the tips don't say where they come from. This proposal to include a language to make it clear.
Reword the line under the heading to credit the people:
- Now: "Here are a few tips to help you write a great article."
- New: "Tips from editors on this wiki."
Desktop
Currently, this line is hidden on desktop today (mobile only), so desktop users see no attribution. Show it on desktop too, as a subtitle under the "Getting started with this article" heading.
QA
- It's a simple change so we can test it locally and then post deployment.
- Manual check, no unit tests needed (message + small CSS change).
- Steps: open Special:NewArticle -> pick a type with tips (e.g. City) -> check the line on mobile and desktop.
- Don't break: the tips, the Back / Start writing buttons, the mobile layout.



