## Wikidata Analytics Request
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### Purpose
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The assumption is that ReferenceCheck has created a demand for references that the current tooling for the citation experience cannot support cleanly. So in essence, ReferenceCheck worked and now we owe newcomers intuitive tools to actually follow through. This will inform opportunities TechWish will work on.
To validate this assumption we want to first look at the numbers for the behavior of 3 groups of newcomers:
- Newcomers who keep adding references via ReferenceCheck prompts
- Newcomers who have seen ReferenceCheck at least once and now add references independantly
- Newcomers who have NEVER seen ReferenceCheck and have always added references independantly.
As a second step we want to identify where in the user flow do newcomers fail when attempting to add a reference and what are the failure reasons.
We will want to distinguish between:
- Failures that lead to NO net-new-reference in a session : 'We expected a reference, but there was no net-new-reference and this was the problematic step.'
- Friction signals in a session: 'We found a net-new-reference, but we also saw the user struggle to create it'
Criteria:
- Newcomer : edit count < 100
- Surface: Mobile vs Desktop
- Mobile using mobile UI, mobile using desktop UI, desktop using desktop UI and other
- Scope is for all citation-related events within a single VisualEditor editing session. Out of scope is sub-referencing
### Desired Outputs
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[] A dashboard or single charts that cover the aspects above.
### Deadline
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15.04.2026
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