Talk:Edit check

So glad to see!
@ESanders (WMF)@PPelberg (WMF), I'm very glad to see that this project exists! If implemented well, I think it will have a strong positive impact on the new editor experience. Please let me (and others!) know when you're looking for community feedback, and I'll be happy to share thoughts on specific ideas/prototypes! Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 18:29, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * hi @Sdkb! I'm glad that you're glad to see the Editing Team prioritizing work on this ^ _ ^
 * Please let me (and others!) know when you're looking for community feedback, and I'll be happy to share thoughts on specific ideas/prototypes!
 * Thank you for offering as much; we're going to need it!
 * In fact, since we're here, I wonder: can you think of specific Senior Contributors or groups of Senior Contributors that you think we ought to prioritize reaching out to first? I've added a bit more context below about the project and what we're currently looking to learn at this stage.
 * All of the above aside, thank you for dropping by! You doing so was the reminder I needed to prioritize posting a status update about this work which I'll do on the project page before this week is over.
 * Seeking Input from Seniors
 * Okay, this is the "context" I referred to above...
 * In the coming weeks, I expect us to be ready to share an initial idea for the user experience of the first "check" we're prioritizing work on: a check that will present people who are attempting to add new content without a corresponding reference with a call to action to do just that. ''This design work is happening in T325711.
 * While we'll be keen to hear what Senior Contributors think of the user experience we're proposing to present to newcomers and Junior Contributors, we're thinking some of the most valuable things we have to learn from y'all in this moment are things like:
 * "In what – if any – ways do Senior Contributors think the proposed mobile UX flow could be adjusted/augmented to increase the ease and efficacy with which they can review edits people will be making with Edit Check?
 * "Which parts of the feedback system Edit Check is proposing do Senior Contributors would value being able to configure on a per-project basis?" [i][ii]
 * i. This "configuration" bit is particularly top-of-mind for the team as we're seeing Edit Check as having two distinct, and complimentary, dimensions: 1) the user experience newcomers and Junior Contributors will see and 2) the configuration tools/options Senior Contributors will have access to that will enable them to customize this user experience it guides people to take actions that align with project policies and conventions.
 * ii. For more details about how we're thinking about consulting with experienced volunteers, please see T327330. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 22:33, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ...thank you for dropping by! You doing so was the reminder I needed to prioritize posting a status update about this work which I'll do on the project page before this week is over.
 * ✅: Edit Check Update: 27 January 2023 PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 19:32, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @PPelberg (WMF), thanks for sharing all that! I reviewed the project page, phabricator tickets, and Figma mockups for desktop and mobile. I responded on Phabricator to some of your prompts there.
 * I think you're on the right track with who to reach out to — w:WT:Teahouse and w:WT:Growth Team features are good options, and I'd add somewhere more general like w:WP:VPI to bring in some folks who might have good advice but who we might not have thought to ask.
 * Regarding your questions:
 * If I'm understanding this right, you're looking to make sure that the mobile implementation of EditCheck doesn't make mobile editing annoying for experienced editors. Well, when I need to make an edit on mobile, my workflow (and that of most other experienced editors I know) is to just switch to desktop mode, since the mobile mode is so deeply lacking in functionality it's preferable to suffer through the tiny fonts/buttons of desktop on mobile. I know has been interested in mobile editing, so they might be able to offer more.
 * There are lots of things we might want to configure. We care more about referencing for certain types of articles, such as those on living people and those on medical topics, so we'd likely want a more aggressive implementation for those than others. Of note for you all, there's currently a tag for new users adding unreferenced material to a BLP. Noting this comment you made on Phabricator — Iterate on the "Citoid" edit card to include some kind of guidance that prompts people to reflect on whether the source they're considering adding is likely to be one other volunteers deem acceptable — we'll absolutely want control over the source list there, so that we can modify it as RSP changes, and ideally we'll want to be able to provide context/specific conditions for (sometimes-)unreliable sources, as it's far from just a binary reliable/unreliable switch. And we'll want to be able to tweak all the guidance text that shows up at the different steps.Going more broadly, I think the true wiki way would be to allow us to come up with custom filters (just as we currently do abuse tags) and provide custom feedback. This would probably mean leaving out some of the more advanced functionality, but I think the community would be able to come up with many good uses that'd be more effective than our current approach when we notice a persistent error of trying to expand guidance (leading to creep).
 * One other thought (for now): Many editors who are contributing uncited material are providing original research, so we'll want to identify and provide guidance to them. The Upload Wizard comes to mind for its approach to a similar problem. When you're contributing a local file, it asks you whether it's a free work, in a fair use category, or doesn't fit either of the categories above. If you choose the last option, it comes back with Please don't upload it as it's very likely a copyright violation. For here, the question we want to make folks adding information answer is "How do you know this?" If it's from a particular source, we of course want the source. But if not, we want to give editors a way to express that by saying "it's something I know from my personal experience". And we want to then explain to them why that's original research and why they need to either find a source for it, or if it's private information that doesn't have a public source, why they shouldn't contribute it.
 * Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I think you're on the right track with who to reach out to — w:WT:Teahouse and w:WT:Growth Team features are good options, and I'd add somewhere more general like w:WP:VPI to bring in some folks who might have good advice but who we might not have thought to ask.
 * Regarding your questions:
 * If I'm understanding this right, you're looking to make sure that the mobile implementation of EditCheck doesn't make mobile editing annoying for experienced editors. Well, when I need to make an edit on mobile, my workflow (and that of most other experienced editors I know) is to just switch to desktop mode, since the mobile mode is so deeply lacking in functionality it's preferable to suffer through the tiny fonts/buttons of desktop on mobile. I know has been interested in mobile editing, so they might be able to offer more.
 * There are lots of things we might want to configure. We care more about referencing for certain types of articles, such as those on living people and those on medical topics, so we'd likely want a more aggressive implementation for those than others. Of note for you all, there's currently a tag for new users adding unreferenced material to a BLP. Noting this comment you made on Phabricator — Iterate on the "Citoid" edit card to include some kind of guidance that prompts people to reflect on whether the source they're considering adding is likely to be one other volunteers deem acceptable — we'll absolutely want control over the source list there, so that we can modify it as RSP changes, and ideally we'll want to be able to provide context/specific conditions for (sometimes-)unreliable sources, as it's far from just a binary reliable/unreliable switch. And we'll want to be able to tweak all the guidance text that shows up at the different steps.Going more broadly, I think the true wiki way would be to allow us to come up with custom filters (just as we currently do abuse tags) and provide custom feedback. This would probably mean leaving out some of the more advanced functionality, but I think the community would be able to come up with many good uses that'd be more effective than our current approach when we notice a persistent error of trying to expand guidance (leading to creep).
 * One other thought (for now): Many editors who are contributing uncited material are providing original research, so we'll want to identify and provide guidance to them. The Upload Wizard comes to mind for its approach to a similar problem. When you're contributing a local file, it asks you whether it's a free work, in a fair use category, or doesn't fit either of the categories above. If you choose the last option, it comes back with Please don't upload it as it's very likely a copyright violation. For here, the question we want to make folks adding information answer is "How do you know this?" If it's from a particular source, we of course want the source. But if not, we want to give editors a way to express that by saying "it's something I know from my personal experience". And we want to then explain to them why that's original research and why they need to either find a source for it, or if it's private information that doesn't have a public source, why they shouldn't contribute it.
 * Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Commenting since I was pinged (thanks !). , if you're interested in my thoughts about mobile editing, I wrote a piece for the Signpost last month. There's some interesting comments on the related talk page from other Wikipedians. If there's anything you want to ask me, feel free. Clovermoss (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2023 (UTC)