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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. |{F82854750 width=360}| - If the user is an experienced editor, show a secondary Skip guidance option at the bottom so they can go straight to the editor. - If the user selects a search result and AG finds that the topic/article already exists, move them to the existing-article path and offer contextual actions: view/improve the article, or create a redirect to that existing article.

[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. |{F82854750 width=360}| - If the user is an experienced editor, show a secondary Skip guidance option at the bottom so they can go straight to the editor. - If the user selects a search result and AG finds that the topic/article already exists, move them to the existing-article path and offer contextual actions: view/improve the article, or create a redirect to that existing article. ====Skip guide flow link - Show below Subject unavailable? Pick a type instead, aligned to the same left edge. - Only show for experienced editors - Copy "Skip guided flow" - Opens the normal editor for the entered title and bypasses Article Guidance. - Treat as a quiet secondary text link, not a button. - Codex small text, 14px - Codex progressive link blue

[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. |{F82854750 width=360}| - If the user is an experienced editor, show a secondary Skip guidance option at the bottom so they can go straight to the editor. - If the user selects a search result and AG finds that the topic/article already exists, move them to the existing-article path and offer contextual actions: view/improve the article, or create a redirect to that existing article. ====Skip guide flow link - Show below Subject unavailable? Pick a type instead, aligned to the same left edge. - Only show for experienced editors - Copy "Skip guided flow" - Opens the normal editor for the entered title and bypasses Article Guidance. - Treat as a quiet secondary text link, not a button. - Codex small text, 14px - Codex progressive link blue