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**Background** The team conducted a second round of user testing to see how our interventions improved talk pages. Something that was clear was the lack of interventions to enhance talk page discoverability resulted in users having a difficult time finding the talk page. Many users tried accessing the talk page via edit pencils. We had an interest in adding an entry point to talk pages via the edit pencils and now have enough information to move forward with this change. **The Task** [ ] Show lowfi mockup of adding "Discuss Edits" and "Edit Article" to section pencils with consideration for the addition to the first section where it should have three drop downs to include edit introduction -@scblr [ ] Ensure a baseline is captured for article talk page views before implementation - @SNowick_WMF [ ] Build and Instrument new entry point - Assigned Engineer **Testing Instructions** Check feature in RTL language where system is RTL

This task derives from the [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321261 | usability test analysis for talk pages in October 2022 ]]. --- **Background** The team conducted a second round of user testing to see how our interventions improved talk pages. Something that was clear was the lack of interventions to enhance talk page discoverability resulted in users having a difficult time finding the talk page. Many users tried accessing the talk page via edit pencils. We had an interest in adding an entry point to talk pages via the edit pencils and now have enough information to move forward with this change. **The Task** [x] Show lowfi mockup of adding "Discuss Edits" and "Edit Article" to section pencils with consideration for the addition to the first section where it should have three drop downs to include edit introduction -@scblr [ ] Ensure a baseline is captured for article talk page views before implementation - @SNowick_WMF [ ] Build and Instrument new entry point - Assigned Engineer **Testing Instructions** Check feature in RTL language where system is RTL **Design** | {F35602987} | {F35602989}

This task derives from the [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321261 | usability test analysis for talk pages in October 2022 ]]. --- **Background** The team conducted a second round of user testing to see how our interventions improved talk pages. Something that was clear was the lack of interventions to enhance talk page discoverability resulted in users having a difficult time finding the talk page. Many users tried accessing the talk page via edit pencils. We had an interest in adding an entry point to talk pages via the edit pencils and now have enough information to move forward with this change. **The Task** [ x] Show lowfi mockup of adding "Discuss Edits" and "Edit Article" to section pencils with consideration for the addition to the first section where it should have three drop downs to include edit introduction -@scblr [ ] Ensure a baseline is captured for article talk page views before implementation - @SNowick_WMF [ ] Build and Instrument new entry point - Assigned Engineer **Testing Instructions** Check feature in RTL language where system is RTL **Design** | {F35602987} | {F35602989}