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[EPIC] Filter language link entries out by default on RC / WL 😾🍂
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After T430178: 🧹 [Epic] Measure diffs in a small sample of Wikidata-injected recent changes, we already know that a large proportion of RC logs come from site link activity (mostly additions, but also removals and edits). LLL represents Language Link Logs in this ticket.

We assume that these logs are low-value notifications since they do not affect the content of their associated Wikipedia articles. We also assume that editors will not miss them. We assume that displaying them differently (either silencing them by default or adding a filter to display them) will improve the editor's workflow T430849: [EPIC] (LL) Understand impact to users/editor-sentiment on language-link-added Watchlist notifications and Recent Changes entries.

In order to validate our assumptions, we will proceed by:

After the filter is ready:

  • Make LLL filter false default for some pilot wikis. (to-do: decide on the pilot wikis and communicate with them). See this approach taken by the language community team to test main page customisation kits and how it could be interesting to us: T420075: Test main page customization feature with selected new communities
  • Put stats in the filter so we can monitor whether anyone is turning this filter on or whether people find these logs helpful.

Further follow-up for after this epic:

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Neslihan_Turan_WMDE renamed this task from What could we do with Language Link Added logs to 🧹What could we do with Language Link Added logs.Aug 21 2026, 10:41 AM
Neslihan_Turan_WMDE renamed this task from 🧹What could we do with Language Link Added logs to [EPIC] 🧹What could we do with Language Link Added logs.Aug 25 2026, 8:21 AM
Ifeatu_Nnaobi_WMDE renamed this task from [EPIC] 🧹What could we do with Language Link Added logs to [EPIC] 🧹What could we do with Language Link Added logs 😾.Aug 25 2026, 10:07 AM
SuzanneWood-WMDE renamed this task from [EPIC] 🧹What could we do with Language Link Added logs 😾 to [EPIC] 🧹What could we do with Language Link logs 😾.Aug 27 2026, 9:44 AM
SuzanneWood-WMDE renamed this task from [EPIC] 🧹What could we do with Language Link logs 😾 to [EPIC] Filter language link entries out by default on RC / WL 😾.Sep 3 2026, 11:26 AM
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Ifeatu_Nnaobi_WMDE renamed this task from [EPIC] Filter language link entries out by default on RC / WL 😾 to [EPIC] Filter language link entries out by default on RC / WL 😾🍂.Sep 7 2026, 1:05 PM
SuzanneWood-WMDE changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Thu, Sep 17, 8:52 AM
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Parking this epic for now while we instead do https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T437582

This may get reopened later.

Dropping this ticket in case we ever come back to it: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176515 -- work done by moderator tools team on how edits might want to filter their RC logs