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Clarify that guidance and contents come from the community
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Description

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.

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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

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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.

Event Timeline

Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.
Pginer-WMF renamed this task from Clarify that guidance and contents come form the community to Clarify that guidance and contents come from the community.Jun 4 2026, 11:59 AM
SGautam_WMF set the point value for this task to 2.
Anirudh_KK subscribed.

Hi, I'd like to work on this task. Based on the description, this looks like a straightforward change: reword the subtitle line to "Tips from editors on this wiki." and remove the mobile-only CSS class so it also shows on desktop. I'll test locally on both mobile and desktop viewports per the QA notes and submit a patch shortly. Assigning to myself.

I've implemented the requested changes locally in the ArticleGuidance repository.
Reworded the introductory guidance text to: "Tips from editors on this wiki."
Removed the mobile-only CSS class so the attribution subtitle is now correctly displayed on desktop viewports as well.

Change #1311064 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anirudh_K; author: Anirudh_K):

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Update guidance intro text and show on desktop

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1311064

Hi everyone,
I've uploaded a patch for this task here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance/+/1311064
It updates the guidance intro text and ensures it displays on desktop as well. I've tested it locally and everything works as expected.
Could someone please review this when they have a chance? Thanks!

Tested locally with the workflow. Desktop now shows "Tips from editors on this wiki." , and mobile continues to display it as before . Screenshots attached.
Desktop View:

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Mobile View:
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Change #1311064 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Fix: Update guidance intro text and show on desktop

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1311064