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[Article guidance](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_guidance) (T396029) introduces a workflow for article creation where community-editable outlines are used to provide guidance, restrictions, and initial content to start specific types of articles. This is organized as an experiment to learn whether junior editors, especially on mobile, benefit from the guidance to make their new articles more likely to survive (reducing the workload for those reviewing them). While the guidance captures useful practices by the community, those may not provide as much value in some particular cases, and there is no current way to skip it. Based on the [input from editors](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_guidance#c-Cyberwolf-20260514191500-Annoyance) two cases were shared: - Advanced editor with high expertise in the creation of articles may find the guidance not providing extra value. - Editor trying to create a redirect may not find a convenient way to do so. This ticket proposes to provide an option to create the article without guidance that can be offered to experienced users (not exposed to junior editors). This will be available once the user provides a title for the article and will lead the user to the default experience of the wiki for article creation. In this way, users needing the guidance can benefit from it while there is an option to accomodate situations where it is not the case. ====Proposed flow - User lands in Article Guidance from a red link and continues through the normal guided article-creation flow by default. |{F84137349 width=360}| - If the user is an experienced editor, show a secondary bypass action at the bottom so they can open a blank article page for the entered title without using Article Guidance. ====Editor bypass action - Show below “Subject unavailable? Pick a type instead”. - Keep it at the bottom of the flow so it does not compete with suggested subjects or the “Pick a type instead” fallback. - Only show for experienced editors. - Copy: “Skip guidance. Start with a blank page” - “Start with a blank page” opens the normal editor for the entered title and bypasses Article Guidance. - Treat as a subtle separated strip, not as another primary choice. - Use Codex `cdxIconInfo`. This icon is decorative/supporting only for now. - Use Codex styling/tokens: - `@background-color-neutral-subtle` for the strip background. - `@border-color-subtle` for the top/bottom separator. - quiet progressive Codex button/link treatment for “Start with a blank page”. - Use Codex `@font-size-small` for text size, equivalent to 14px. ====Desktop treatment |{F84630103 size=full}| On desktop the skip option moves into the existing footer row alongside "Pick a type instead", with the same copy and gate. - Placement: right-aligned in the existing "None of these? Pick a type instead" footer row; cdxIconInfo to the left of the label; no background, no separator borders; @font-size-small.

[Article guidance](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_guidance) (T396029) introduces a workflow for article creation where community-editable outlines are used to provide guidance, restrictions, and initial content to start specific types of articles. This is organized as an experiment to learn whether junior editors, especially on mobile, benefit from the guidance to make their new articles more likely to survive (reducing the workload for those reviewing them). While the guidance captures useful practices by the community, those may not provide as much value in some particular cases, and there is no current way to skip it. Based on the [input from editors](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_guidance#c-Cyberwolf-20260514191500-Annoyance) two cases were shared: - Advanced editor with high expertise in the creation of articles may find the guidance not providing extra value. - Editor trying to create a redirect may not find a convenient way to do so. This ticket proposes to provide an option to create the article without guidance that can be offered to experienced users (not exposed to junior editors). This will be available once the user provides a title for the article and will lead the user to the default experience of the wiki for article creation. In this way, users needing the guidance can benefit from it while there is an option to accomodate situations where it is not the case. ====Proposed flow - If user lands in Article Guidance from a red link and continues through the normal guided article-creation flow by default. |{F84137349 width=360}| - If the user is an experienced editor, show a secondary bypass action at the bottom so they can open a blank article page for the entered title without using Article Guidance. ====Editor bypass action - Show below “Subject unavailable? Pick a type instead”. - Keep it at the bottom of the flow so it does not compete with suggested subjects or the “Pick a type instead” fallback. - Only show for experienced editors. - Copy: “Skip guidance. Start with a blank page” - “Start with a blank page” opens the normal editor for the entered title and bypasses Article Guidance. - Treat as a subtle separated strip, not as another primary choice. - Use Codex `cdxIconInfo`. This icon is decorative/supporting only for now. - Use Codex styling/tokens: - `@background-color-neutral-subtle` for the strip background. - `@border-color-subtle` for the top/bottom separator. - quiet progressive Codex button/link treatment for “Start with a blank page”. - Use Codex `@font-size-small` for text size, equivalent to 14px. ====Desktop treatment |{F84630103 size=full}| On desktop the skip option moves into the existing footer row alongside "Pick a type instead", with the same copy and gate. - Placement: right-aligned in the existing "None of these? Pick a type instead" footer row; cdxIconInfo to the left of the label; no background, no separator borders; @font-size-small. ====Empty states - Bypass is visible, this is useful for states when editors land here without clicking on red link e.g. create article button on turkish wiki |{F84879321 width=360}| - Mobile: full-bleed strip below the search area |{F84879391, size=full}| - Desktop: quiet inline link right-aligned under the title input. This is hidden only during the loading transition; returns once results / no-results / error settle.

[Article guidance](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_guidance) (T396029) introduces a workflow for article creation where community-editable outlines are used to provide guidance, restrictions, and initial content to start specific types of articles. This is organized as an experiment to learn whether junior editors, especially on mobile, benefit from the guidance to make their new articles more likely to survive (reducing the workload for those reviewing them). While the guidance captures useful practices by the community, those may not provide as much value in some particular cases, and there is no current way to skip it. Based on the [input from editors](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_guidance#c-Cyberwolf-20260514191500-Annoyance) two cases were shared: - Advanced editor with high expertise in the creation of articles may find the guidance not providing extra value. - Editor trying to create a redirect may not find a convenient way to do so. This ticket proposes to provide an option to create the article without guidance that can be offered to experienced users (not exposed to junior editors). This will be available once the user provides a title for the article and will lead the user to the default experience of the wiki for article creation. In this way, users needing the guidance can benefit from it while there is an option to accomodate situations where it is not the case. ====Proposed flow - User- If user lands in Article Guidance from a red link and continues through the normal guided article-creation flow by default. |{F84137349 width=360}| - If the user is an experienced editor, show a secondary bypass action at the bottom so they can open a blank article page for the entered title without using Article Guidance. ====Editor bypass action - Show below “Subject unavailable? Pick a type instead”. - Keep it at the bottom of the flow so it does not compete with suggested subjects or the “Pick a type instead” fallback. - Only show for experienced editors. - Copy: “Skip guidance. Start with a blank page” - “Start with a blank page” opens the normal editor for the entered title and bypasses Article Guidance. - Treat as a subtle separated strip, not as another primary choice. - Use Codex `cdxIconInfo`. This icon is decorative/supporting only for now. - Use Codex styling/tokens: - `@background-color-neutral-subtle` for the strip background. - `@border-color-subtle` for the top/bottom separator. - quiet progressive Codex button/link treatment for “Start with a blank page”. - Use Codex `@font-size-small` for text size, equivalent to 14px. ====Desktop treatment |{F84630103 size=full}| On desktop the skip option moves into the existing footer row alongside "Pick a type instead", with the same copy and gate. - Placement: right-aligned in the existing "None of these? Pick a type instead" footer row; cdxIconInfo to the left of the label; no background, no separator borders; @font-size-small. ====Empty states - Bypass is visible, this is useful for states when editors land here without clicking on red link e.g. create article button on turkish wiki |{F84879321 width=360}| - Mobile: full-bleed strip below the search area |{F84879391, size=full}| - Desktop: quiet inline link right-aligned under the title input. This is hidden only during the loading transition; returns once results / no-results / error settle.