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Announce availability of "experimental" suggestions
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Description

Within Suggestion Mode, exist a number of "experimental" suggestions.

As a result of T429058, it will be possible for people to enable these "experimental" suggestions.

This task involves the work of making volunteers aware of their ability to enable experimental suggestions w/in Suggestion Mode by way of T429058.

Story

As an experienced editor who has opted into Suggestion Mode, I want to try new, experimental edit suggestions as they become available, so that I can both edit more effectively with tools that show promise and contribute to making those suggestions more reliable by using and evaluating them in real editing contexts.

Message requirements

The announcement we publish ought to equip volunteers with the info. they need to answer the following questions...

All wikis

  1. What are "experimental" edit suggestions?
  2. What are some examples of "experimental" edit suggestions that are currently available?
  3. Where can I see all of the "experimental" edit suggestions currently available on my wiki?
  4. How are these "experimental" suggestions being generated?
  5. Can we (volunteers) configure these suggestions as we can the suggestions we're used to seeing/using?
  6. Once enabled, how I can differentiate "experimental" suggestions from "default" suggestions?
  7. How can I offer feedback about "experimental" suggestions?

en.wiki ONLY

  1. What specific experimental suggestion are you seeking feedback about? Answer: model-generated MoS suggestions.
  2. What new experimental suggestion are you working on? Answer: collaborating with User:Alaexis to turn AI Source Verification into a suggestion within suggestion mode.

Announcement draft

@Quiddity to draft

Announcement location(s)
@Quiddity to propose

Done

  • Announcement drafted and published at locations defined above

Details

Due Date
Fri, Sep 18, 12:00 AM

Event Timeline

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)

Being discussed on the English Wikipedia's village pump. Consensus is pretty clear that the current version is far from desirable, and shouldn't be rolled out as a usable product in the immediate future, although from my understanding this is not what is currently being planned.

As an actionable suggestion, communication should be shifted to make clear that this is, for now, still deep in development and that it is being made available to experienced editors to provide feedback on its current state, rather than as an active editing tool. This, the scope and timeline of any planned community rollout, and the importance of working with the editor community and respecting a future consensus on whether to deploy it, should be made as clear as possible to avoid a repeat of Simple Summaries.

Thank you for drawing our attention to the on-wiki discussion, @Chaotic_Enby and for suggesting what info. volunteers would find most useful at this point.

You can expect me to post a response before tomorrow (Sunday) is over at the latest.

On a technical level, I am also doubtful that any NPOV assessment could be successful without at the very least grounding the suggestions to reliable sources through some form of retrieval-augmented generation.

ppelberg lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Wed, Sep 16, 4:24 PM
ppelberg set Due Date to Fri, Sep 18, 12:00 AM.Wed, Sep 16, 5:32 PM
ppelberg added a project: User-notice.