Increase Rollout Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025.
####User story & summary:
As an **experienced editor** on English Wikipedia, I want the "Add a link" task released gradually, because I want to test the impact of the feature without overloading patrollers.
As a **newcomer** on English Wikipedia, I want access to easy first editing tasks that are structured and help me learn gradually, because I need a chance to gradually learn policies, editing norms, and how to edit.
####Background & research:
We have released the "Add a link" Structured task to most Wikipedias as enabled. We feel confident in doing this as we've conducted several A/B tests that show this task is helping new editors get started:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_an_image/Experiment_analysis,_March_2024
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_a_link/Experiment_analysis,_December_2021
However, we recognize that patrollers are sometimes frustrated with these tasks. We've outlined patroller feedback and some of the improvements we've completed to address concerns: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Community_feedback
Most Wikipedias have decided that the benefits of this task outweigh the additional burden it places on patrollers. However, at some of our larger wikis, we are first talking about the task with communities and letting communities decide if they want to enable this task.
####Acceptance Criteria:
[] Increase the rollout of "Add a link" on English Wikipedia from 5% to 10% on January 28, 2025.
[] @Trizek-WMF updates
[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AGrowth_Team_features#Should_English_Wikipedia_enable_the_Suggested_Links_newcomer_task? | discussion on enwiki ]].