Edit check/Status
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The team is continuing to work on Suggestion Mode and other aspects of Edit Checks. The A/B experiment was launched on 15 wikis and is collecting data.
The documentation page for TextMatch has been updated and made ready for translation. Communities are encouraged to try out this feature, and let us know what you do and don't like about it, and about any bugs you find or feature-requests you have. There are some inspiring examples of how communities are currently using it listed in the Help:Suggestion mode page.
A new experimental suggestion type, "Add an image", has been created using the same functionality as the Growth team's version. Work is also ongoing on improving the functionality of the "Add a link" suggestion type, so that it can become a default global suggestion type in the future.
There is ongoing investigation into whether an LLM trained on English Wikipedia's Manual of Style can generate reliable types of suggestions.
Some research was completed to learn if LLMs could be helpful in detecting hallucinated references. This research confirmed that in English LLMs are effective at evaluating whether web-based sources corroborate claims on Wikipedia. Next, the team will investigate how effective this method is in other languages.
The team is building a way for Suggestions to be stored more efficiently, so that in the future the suggestions can be used by, or shown within, other software features, as well as showing the existence & count to editors in an article's "Read" mode.
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Suggestion Mode
The team is continuing to work on Suggestion Mode. The feature has been available as a Beta Feature globally since early March and at English Wikipedia since early February. Improvements to the tool since then include: Better detection of quotations for the ignoreQuotedContent setting; Better detection of existing references for the addReference suggestions; Addition of a toggle-button to hide suggestions temporarily - this will soon also save the 'hidden' state across future edit-sessions; Clearer and more accurate details in Special:EditChecks which shows the local configuration; Two new edit-tags added to published edits; A variety of bug-fixes and performance-improvements.
Some communities have started to use the textMatch feature to create custom local types of Suggestion.
We are now preparing for an A/B experiment with newcomers at ~20 Wikipedias, to measure what kind of impact the tool has on the percentage of constructive (un-reverted) edits by newcomers, as well as editor-retention and any changes in revert-rates and block rates.
Seeking feedback and assistance: Administrators at all Wikipedias can help to configure this tool so that it can recognize local standard heading-names, and so that it links to relevant local documentation pages from each type of suggestion (see Help:Suggestion mode#For administrators). All editors are strongly encouraged to share ideas and feedback on how the tool could be further improved.
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Suggestion Mode
The Team is working on Suggestion Mode. The focus right now is clarifying what actions and instructions Suggestion Mode will present to experienced editors who use the Beta Feature for Suggestion Mode.
Seeking feedback: we are particularly interested in learning what kinds of additional Suggestions you want to create (whether you can locally create them with textmatch, or if you need developer-assistance for more complicated types of Suggestion), plus any adjustments you think would be needed in the text of the existing cards, plus what are the most suitable global links for each type of Suggestion (or local links if there is nothing globally suitable). Please let us know on the talk page.
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"Add a citation" example on the article w:en:Mango -
"Convert citation" example on the article w:en:Gooseberry
