Some pages and Wikipedias have implemented new workflows and affordances to make it easier for people, across experience levels, to start new discussion threads.
This task is about understanding and documenting these different approaches so we can identify the design patterns we ought to consider incorporating into the workflow we will design in T243248.
=== Slide components
//For each intervention we will be curioulisted in "Interventions to know and seeexplore" we are curious to know the following...//
- What does the intervention look like?
- How does the intervention work?
- What problem(s) do you think the intervention is intended to solve?
- What do you think we can learn from this intervention?
=== Workflows and affordances to explore
//@ppelberg and @Whatamidoing-WMF are continuing to add to this section.//
1. On the French Wikipedia's wikitext talk pages, there is an "Ajouter un sujet" link at the bottom of each talk page to help people more easily start conversations regardless of where they are on the talk page.- What patterns do you notice among the interventions listed?
=== Interventions to explore
2. On English Wikipedia's Teahouse,//The research we conducted surfaced a series of interventions wikis have implemented to make it easier for people to start new discussions on talk pages. there is a large "Ask a quesThese "intervention" button at the top of the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouses" are listed here://
| **Intervention** | **Link**
3. The English WIkipedia's `{{Talk header}}` template includes a link that states: "Click here to start a new topic.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Talk_header| --- | ---
| Additional links elsewhere on the page | ["Ajouter un sujet"](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Projet:Outils_de_discussion) (bottom of fr.wiki talk pages), `+` (bottom of some nl.wiki talk pages)
4.| Large blue buttons at the top of the page with custom calls to action | ["Ask a question"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse) (en.wiki), ["New message"](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskuse_s_wikipedistou:Janbery) (cs.wiki), Some editors["Make a new request"](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Requ%C3%AAte_aux_administrateurs) (fr.wiki),
| "New section" form is preloaded with a template/instructions | ["Request to administrators"](https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Requ%C3%AAte_aux_administrateurs&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Mod%C3%A8le:Pr%C3%A9chargement_RA) (fr.wiki), such as [this one at cswiki["Request for immediate deletion"](https://csfr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskuse_s_wikipedistou:Janbery/index.php?action=edit&preload=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande+de+suppression+imm%C3%A9diate%2Fpreload&editintro=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande+de+suppression+imm%C3%A9diate%2Feditintro&preloadtitle=%7B%7Ba%27%7C1%3DTitre+de+la+page%7D%7D§ion=new&title=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande+de+suppression+imm%C3%A9diate&create=Post+a+request) (fr.wiki), have put buttons//see T250768#6073965 for more examples//
| Links at the top of their user talk pagesthe page | ["Click here to ask a question"](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Helpdesk) (nl.wiki), which leads to `?action=edit§ion=new`.["Start a new topic"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Usercomment) ([~550 people](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=500&profile=all&search=hastemplate%3AUsercomment&advancedSearch-current={%22fields%22:{%22hastemplate%22:[%22Usercomment%22]}}&ns0=1) are using this on en.wiki)
5. On the French Wikipedia's "Request to administrators" page, they have a button at the top of the talk page that reads "Make a new request." Upon clicking it, people are shown the `?action=edit§ion=new` form along with a some pre-populated content to help people submit requests in the specified format. See: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Requ%C3%AAte_aux_administrateurs.
| Instructions within new section form | ["You are going to request the immediate deletion..."](https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande+de+suppression+imm%C3%A9diate%2Fpreload&editintro=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande+de+suppression+imm%C3%A9diate%2Feditintro&preloadtitle=%7B%7Ba%27%7C1%3DTitre+de+la+page%7D%7D§ion=new&title=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande+de+suppression+imm%C3%A9diate&create=Post+a+request) (fr.wiki), ["Instructions for discussion"](https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preloadtitle=§ion=new&title=Diskuse+s+wikipedistou%3AJanbery&create=Nov%C3%A1+zpr%C3%A1va) (cs.wiki)
=== Open questions
- [ ] What – if any – user testing should we conduct to better understand how effective these workflows and affordances are at making the process for starting new conversations easier and more intuitive?
=== Done
- [ ] A slide deck containing the "Slide components" above
- [ ] All "Open questions" above are resolved
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