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This parent task is intended to help gather and advance the thinking around how the visual editor might be enhanced to help people learn the social conventions (read: [policies and guidelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines)) and exercise the judgement necessary to become productive and constructive Wikipedia editors.
=== Background
Visual editor's growing popularity among people new to editing Wikipedia [i] suggests it has been reasonably successful at helping people to learn the technical skills [ii] necessary to edit Wikipedia.
Trouble is, the edits these new people make often break/defy [Wikipedia policies and guidelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines).
This task is about exploring how the visual editor could be augmented/enhanced to help people learn these [policies and guidelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines) and exercise the judgement necessary to become productive and constructive Wikipedia editors.
=== Potential impact
**New and Junior Contributors**
Working on talking pages has led us to notice that for many newcomers, the earliest human interactions they have on-wiki centers around something they did wrong, like not contributing in the Wikipedia Way [iii] [iv][v][vi].
We wonder how newcomers perceive these interactions and further, whether newcomers having a positive first interaction with another Wikipedia editor could increase the likelihood that they continue editing. [vii]
**Senior Contributors**
We wonder whether adding more "productive friction" to publishing flows could free Senior Contributors up to do more high-value work by:
- Reducing the amount of work they need to do reverting lower quality edits by increasing the quality of edits
- Reducing the amount of work they need to do blocking bad faith/vandalistic editors by lowering the likelihood these actors are able to complete/publish the changes that cause them to be blocked
- Reducing the amount of work and time they spend writing on new users' talk pages to alert them of policies and/or guidelines they've [likely] unknowingly broken
=== Use cases
|Theme|Related policy/guideline/cultural value|Tickets|Links
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|Citations and reliable sources|[WP:VERIFY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability), [WP:RELIABLE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources), [WP:CS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)| T276857, T166296|
|Readability |[WP:MOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch)|T91338, T135321, T95500|
|Tone/language on talk pages (slurs, [weasel words](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions), etc.)|[WP:ETIQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette), [WP:NPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks)| |
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=== References
//Data//
- Impact of turning off IP editing at pt.wiki.
-- Slides: [Impact of turning off IP editing on ptwiki](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWWHBN6dtc_aGWBKuy0ayIVpX2lRl_Wguc4PiwT6xHk/edit#slide=id.gc5206979fe_0_8)
-- Analysis: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/notebooks/AHT/ptwiki_dashboard.html
-- {T261133}
//Research//
- [Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05345)
//Ideas//
- Ideas for where/how we might introduce this feedback/interaction: T95500#6873217
//Related on-wiki tools//
- https://w.wiki/39ot
- [CivilityCheck](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLoop/2020_Year_in_Review)
//Related third-party tools//
- https://languagetool.org/
- https://hemingwayapp.com/
- https://www.grammarly.com/
- https://www.perspectiveapi.com/#/home
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i. https://superset.wikimedia.org/r/345
ii. Where "technical skills" could mean: adding text, formatting text, adding links, adding citations, publishing edits, etc.
iii. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences#Research_findings
iv. https://w.wiki/eMc
v. https://w.wiki/dSx
vi. https://w.wiki/dSv
vii. Perhaps the Research Team's "Thanks" research might be instructive here for it explore how positive interactions/sentiment affect editing behavior: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_thanks