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Introduce a way to enable "experimental" suggestions
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This task involves the work of introducing a way to enable/disable experimental Edit Checks and Suggestions natively, within Wikipedia's UI.

At present, to see experimental Edit Checks or Suggestions you need to either:

  1. Manually append a URL parameter to your edit session
    • E.g. ecenable=experimental or ecenable=2
  2. Install a userscript that deliberately does "#1"

User stories

  • As an experienced volunteer who is interested in new editing tools, I want an easy way to opt into experimental Edit Checks and Suggestions from a single setting, so that I can try features still in development, see whether they make my editing more effective and efficient, and shape them before they reach everyone.
  • As someone developing experimental Edit Checks and Suggestions, I want to expose these features to a self-selected population of motivated, interested editors via an opt-in flag, so that I can gather real-world signal and qualitative feedback from people who understand the context, without exposing unfinished work to the broader community.

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Event Timeline

ppelberg triaged this task as High priority.Mon, Jul 6, 4:29 PM

After exploring some possible solutions and discussed them with editing team internally, I'm sharing an approach for both:

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Enabling experimental suggestions:

  • Add a new Checkbox under User Preferences > Editing > Developer tools to manually enable this option
  • By default, this option will not be enabled and users who actively want to find these suggestions will enable it manually

Once enabled, experimental checks and suggestions should be clearly distinguishable:

  • Using a modified lightbulb icon with (!) symbol in both collapsed and expanded states
  • A text indicator below the card title when it's expanded
  • The idea is to avoid the current alarming red treatment while giving experienced editors enough signal to understand what they're looking at

Once enabled, experimental checks and suggestions should be clearly distinguishable:

  • Using a modified lightbulb icon with (!) symbol in both collapsed and expanded states
  • A text indicator below the card title when it's expanded
  • The idea is to avoid the current alarming red treatment while giving experienced editors enough signal to understand what they're looking at

As decided during the editing team meeting, we will finally implement the card changes in T432155.