Help:Growth/Tools/Suggested edits

Thank you for using the suggested edits tool and wanting to learn more!

This tool is part of the Growth team's "Newcomer tasks" project.

It works both on desktop browsers and mobile browsers, but is not yet available on the iOS or Android apps. The apps suggest edits on their own, but that's not related to this project.

Purpose of suggested edits
The goal of the tool is to:


 * Suggest articles that need to be edited for new users.
 * Enable new users to find help pages and how-to guides.
 * Allow new users to ask a question to experienced users if they haven't found what they need in existing help pages.

How to use it


You can find the suggested edits feature in the Homepage. You need to enable the homepage first. Please go to manual for enabling homepage if you want to learn how you can do it. Once done, you can click on your username on the top of the Wikipedia page to access your homepage. You might need to enable the Suggested edits module first - it can be done via a blue button in the Getting started section.

The suggested edits feature allow you to filter results by edit's difficulty and by article's topic.

Edit's difficulty
There are many types of edits, and only some of them are chosen to be included in the suggested edits module. We have separated them into 3 groups by their difficulty.


 * Easy: copyedits, add links
 * Copyediting is about correcting for grammar, spelling, readability, or layout to make the article clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent.
 * Adding a wikilink is about adding links to another pages within the same project, so readers can move between articles to learn more quickly.
 * Medium: Add reference, update articles
 * Adding reference is about adding source of an information to the article, so readers can verify that information. This makes the article adhere more to the verifiability policy, and therefore more reliable.
 * Updating articles means bringing existing articles up-to-date.
 * Hard: Expand stub articles, create new article (but for now creating new article is not available)
 * Many articles in Wikipedia are stubs, which mean they contain only a sentence or two. Expanding them help improve the quality of Wikipedia.

Select topics
You can also filter articles by topics. The module now has 39 topics categorized into 4 groups: "Culture", "History and Society", "Science, Technology and Maths", and "Geography". Choose one or many topics you are interested in editing and a list of suitable article will be presented.

Frequently Asked Questions
How articles are selected?

Currently we are using an algorithm called ORES to select the articles. ORES is a machine learning service that – among other things – can return a predicted topic for any article. Though this prediction service only works in English Wikipedia, there are ways to translate predictions from English to other wikis.

''' What happens if I save my edits? '''

Your edit went live!

 Do I have to fix the entire article?

No. You can just fix whatever part you want to, even if it is just a small typo. We value each and every contribution you make.

 Why is the "creating new article" box unable to be ticked?

We focus on the first days of new users, and creating new articles is such a hard task that not many new users have enough skills to do it, so we decide to disable the option for now.

How can I learn more about Suggested Edits and the larger project?

You can read the detailed page about the project (in English only) and ask us about it on the feedback page.