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This task is about raising new and potential editors' awareness of talk pages, and the conversations within them, that shape the content they are reading and might want to edit. === Approaches / Ideas - Expose the number of conversations happening on a talk page somewhere on the article/user/template/etc. page to which the talk page is attached. -- //We might consider adding this kind of metadata to the Sticky Header the Web Team is introducing (T283505). More context in [Sticky Header Review Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13xpJsfQadPTjQY780MZ6DXIz-u8f6YvkRFDvne39y8E/edit#bookmark=id.n810skjnn59g).// - Consider revising the `Talk` link that appears when viewing subject pages to be more action-oriented. -- //E.g. something like "Suggest an improvement" per the feedback [@Wugapodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes) shared [at en.wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=1042106616&oldid=1042062974&diffmode=source).// === Background - People not experienced with editing Wikipedia have low awareness of talk pages, and the conversations that happen within them, that shape the content they read on Wikipedia. === Past efforts |Hebrew Wikipedia| |--- | {F34561969} At some point, a "Tip" was added to the site's sidebar drawing peoples' attention to talk pages. //via @alexhollender//

This task is an effort to organize ideas to increase peoples' awareness of, and participation in, the discussions that shape the content they read on Wikipedia and the upstream guidelines/policies/cultural conventions/etc. that ultimately determine how this content is written. === Theory of change !!TODO!! === Approaches / Ideas |Idea|Description|Ticket |---|---|--- |1.| Expose the number of conversations happening on a talk page somewhere on the article/user/template/etc. page to which the talk page is attached. //We might consider adding this kind of metadata to the Sticky Header the Web Team is introducing (T283505). More context in [Sticky Header Review Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13xpJsfQadPTjQY780MZ6DXIz-u8f6YvkRFDvne39y8E/edit#bookmark=id.n810skjnn59g).//| |2.| Consider revising the `Talk` link that appears when viewing subject pages to be more action-oriented. //E.g. something like "Suggest an improvement" per the feedback [@Wugapodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes) shared [at en.wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=1042106616&oldid=1042062974&diffmode=source).//| |3. |Introduce a way to start a new discussion directly from a diff.| T287833 |4. |Introduce a workflow for starting a new discussion about a specific change from within the page's history| === Background - People not experienced with editing Wikipedia have low awareness of talk pages, and the conversations that happen within them, that shape the content they read on Wikipedia. === Past efforts |Hebrew Wikipedia| |--- | {F34561969} At some point, a "Tip" was added to the site's sidebar drawing peoples' attention to talk pages. //via @alexhollender_WMF//

This task is about raising new and potential editorn effort to organize ideas to increase peoples' awareness of talk pages, and participation in, andthe discussions that shape the conversations within them,ntent they read on Wikipedia and the upstream guidelines/policies/cultural conventions/etc. that shape theultimately determine how this content they are reading and might want to edit.is written. === Theory of change !!TODO!! === Approaches / Ideas - Expose the number of conversations happening on a talk page somewhere on the article/user/template/etc. page to which the talk page is attached.|Idea|Description|Ticket -- //We might consider adding this kind of metadata to the Sticky Header the Web Team is introducing (T283505). More context in [Sticky Header Review Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13xpJsfQadPTjQY780MZ6DXIz-u8f6YvkRFDvne39y8E/edit#bookmark=id.n810skjnn59g).//|---|---|--- - Consider revising the `Talk` link that appears when viewing subject pages to be more action-oriented.|1.| Expose the number of conversations happening on a talk page somewhere on the article/user/template/etc. page to which the talk page is attached. //We might consider adding this kind of metadata to the Sticky Header the Web Team is introducing (T283505). More context in [Sticky Header Review Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13xpJsfQadPTjQY780MZ6DXIz-u8f6YvkRFDvne39y8E/edit#bookmark=id.n810skjnn59g).//| --|2.| Consider revising the `Talk` link that appears when viewing subject pages to be more action-oriented. //E.g. something like "Suggest an improvement" per the feedback [@Wugapodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes) shared [at en.wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=1042106616&oldid=1042062974&diffmode=source).//| |3. |Introduce a way to start a new discussion directly from a diff.| T287833 |4. |Introduce a workflow for starting a new discussion about a specific change from within the page's history| === Background - People not experienced with editing Wikipedia have low awareness of talk pages, and the conversations that happen within them, that shape the content they read on Wikipedia. === Past efforts |Hebrew Wikipedia| |--- | {F34561969} At some point, a "Tip" was added to the site's sidebar drawing peoples' attention to talk pages. //via @alexhollender_WMF//