Finnish Wikipedia community voted to disable the invite to test translation when creating a new article so we would like to request to disable it from the settings. This should be possible as the newarticle campaign is not enabled in enwiki and dewiki. See enwikis `wmgContentTranslationCampaigns` settings in [[ https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php | InitialiseSettings.php ]] as an example.
- [[ https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Kahvihuone_(k%C3%A4yt%C3%A4nn%C3%B6t)&oldid=19636839#Mielipidetiedustelu_ty%C3%B6kalun_asetuksen_muuttamisesta | Opinion poll ]] in Finnish Wikipedia
- Related [[ https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kahvihuone_(k%C3%A4yt%C3%A4nn%C3%B6t)#K%C3%A4%C3%A4nn%C3%B6sty%C3%B6kalun_tekninen_rajoittaminen | discussion in Finnish Wikipedia’s village pump ]]
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**Additional details** (from Language team)
The motivation for the request seems to be about low quality articles created by newcomers with Content Translation. Editors from Finnish Wikipedia consider that it is preferable to let newcomers create articles from scratch rather than invite them to do a translation instead.
Although the quality of articles created from scratch is lower, these are easier to handle by reviewers (they can just delete them), while translations are not as bad to deserve deletion (deletion ratio is much lower) but they require additional efforts by other editors for a more in-depth review (checking that the original references are valid, etc.).
In order to have a better understanding of the effects of the change it would be useful to measure:
- How many translations are created through the "new article" invite (by newcomers)
- How does the article creation and deletion process compare before and after the change
This ticket is focused on disabling the "new article" invite on Finnish Wikipedia.
Given the context above, it may be worth considering whether to focus this change to focus only on newcomers. In this way, the more experienced editors would still get opportunities to contribute in the way that better suits them.