User story & summary:
As a editor on Wikipedia, I want to review Revise Tone suggestions related to more topics so that I can improve article neutrality across the wikis and have plenty of tasks to work on.
Background & research:
This task is important because enwiki has completed all Revise Tone suggestions, and ideally we have enough tasks to support newer editors.
Questions:
- Are there other viable ways to expand the task pool that we should consider?
- Work with Machine Learning to decide if/how we should expand the criteria for "Articles to feed the model".
Based on the ORES article topics, here's a very rough, intuition-based ranking of which topic areas might be more likely to contain opportunities for tone or neutrality improvements. This is not based on empirical data and should be treated as a hypothesis rather than a conclusion. It is not intended to suggest that articles in any particular topic are inherently more biased or less encyclopedic than others.
| Likelihood of non-neutral writing | Topics | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Very High | Biography, Politics and government, Philosophy and religion, History, Military and warfare | These frequently involve contentious subjects, ideological viewpoints, living people, or historical interpretation. Articles often require careful attribution and neutral framing. |
| High | Business and economics, Society, Education, Media (Books, Films, Television, Music, Video games, Entertainment, Software), Internet culture, Sports | These topics often attract fan-like language, promotional wording, recentism, or subjective evaluations. Articles about companies, schools, athletes, and entertainment are common targets for promotional editing. |
| Moderate | Visual arts, Architecture, Fashion, Performing arts, Literature, Food and drink, Transportation | These can include subjective descriptions ("iconic," "beautiful," "renowned") but are generally less controversial than politics or biographies. |
| Lower | Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Earth and environment, Computing, Engineering, Libraries and information, Space, Technology | Scientific and technical topics tend to be more factual and are often written in a more objective style, although articles about emerging technologies or companies can still contain promotional language. |
| Lowest | Geography, regional geography topics, species, physical geography | These articles are typically descriptive and fact-based. While they can contain local bias or nationalistic framing, they generally present fewer neutrality issues. |
- Should we manually review a small sample of new suggestions?
Acceptance Criteria:
TBD (based on open questions)
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When [user action]
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All tasks should also meet the Growth Team’s task completion definition.