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We invite experienced editors in our pilot Wikipedias to adapt the sample outlines, or create them using these instructions. Creating them now ensures the Article Guidance feature will be useful for editors after deployment.
Proyectos de la Fundación Wikimedia
Guía de creación de artículos
La Guía de creación de artículos busca mejorar el proceso de redacción de artículos y sus secciones en Wikipedia mediante un enfoque de mentoría y apoyo.
Inicio: 2025-07
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Backlog: board

La Guía de creación de artículos es una iniciativa que aún está en etapas tempranas, liderada por la Fundación Wikimedia. Su objetivo es desarrollar nuevas formas de apoyar a editores y editoras para que sus primeras contribuciones a Wikipedia estén bien estructuradas y alineadas con las políticas comunitarias y la calidad esperada de los contenidos. La intención es ayudar a las y los editores recién llegados a entender con facilidad las políticas y prácticas existentes, a aplicarlas en su trabajo, y a navegar las tareas que requiere el redactar un nuevo artículo. También se busca reducir la carga de trabajo que tiene el equipo de administradores [bibliotecarios] permitiéndoles salvaguardar la calidad de los artículos con mayor efectividad. Esta iniciativa está inspirada en las necesidades de la comunidad expresadas en la lista de deseos, en las discusiones, y la retroalimentación de ciertas comunidades sobre la idea de la creación de artículos para editores y editoras recién llegadas. It determines the editor's intent based on the article title and type, then provides tailored, community-adjustable guidance throughout the creation process. This includes upfront source validation, notability risk assessment, and content outlines for initial contents. By minimizing low-quality submissions, the feature aims to increase the survival rate of new pages created by editors, and reduce the workload for patrollers and administrators. In addition, the feature has been designed to work across platforms with a specific focus on lowering the barrier to contribute on mobile, where creating an article is particularly challenging.

Testing the feature

The feature is available in Simple English, Turkish and French Wikipedia as part of an A/B experiment. It is also enabled but not exposed for the A/B experiment in Bangla and Arabic Wikipedia Experienced contributors in the wikis can continue to use the feature if they are part of the experiment group. They are also encouraged to create additional article outlines and provide feedback. The Simple English has outlines for various article types, which can serve as examples with the appropriate markups. Please consider your community's editing principles if you choose to adapt any of those outlines. A video below demonstrates how the feature works.

Adapting a sample outline in a Wikipedia

An outline is a community-curated page that provides tips, highlights discouraged and recommended sources, and suggests article sections for a particular article type. The Article guidance feature uses these outlines at different stages of creating a new article. These outlines can be adapted from an existing one following the steps below:

The pages will render weirdly after you publish for now, until the extension is deployed.

Outlines to prioritize adapting

These are the top 10 article outlines to prioritize adapting and translating to our selected Wikipedias.


Feature workflow

Article guidance defines a workflow to assist contributors from the initial stages through writing the article in Visual Editor, using the provided outlines.

Step 1– Title entry and topic matching

An illustration of the title entry and topic matching step in the Article guidance feature.
An illustration of the title entry and topic matching step in the Article guidance feature.

The entry point is Special:NewArticle. Once a contributor accesses the feature to start a new article, it prompts them to type an article title. The system queries possible topic matches and provides a list of primary topics and close alternatives from Wikidata for the contributor to confirm their subject. It then moves the contributor quickly to the next phase. This workflow simplifies choosing the right topic and eliminates duplication.

Step 2 – Article Type Selection

When a contributor cannot confirm a topic match from the article title in step 1, they see a list of article types to choose from. Selecting a type moves them to the notability check. A successful topic match from the previous step skips this workflow. If none of the listed types applies, a graceful exit lets the contributor continue without guided help or suggest a new type for community consideration.

Step 3 (Reference Checks)

After confirming the article title and type, contributors are prompted to provide sources by pasting one or more URLs. Each URL is automatically checked against community-defined lists of recommended and discouraged sources, with real-time feedback showing if a source is approved or not recommended. If flagged, guidance tips are given to help contributors understand what qualifies as a reliable source. Adding sources at this stage is optional by default, but may be required depending on the article type. Contributors can also add sources later while writing.

Step 4 (Notability Risk Assessment)

The Notability Risk Assessment step checks if a proposed article meets community-defined notability standards based on its title, type, and sources. If the topic does not meet criteria like:

  • presence on Wikidata
  • availability in other language wikis
  • source requirements

The workflow stops the user from proceeding. Contributors are then offered helpful alternatives such as:

  • working on a related article
  • learning about notability guidelines
  • proposing a Wikidata item

This step guides contributors toward meaningful contributions early, saving time and improving article quality.

Step 5. Initial contents from the outline as starting point

At this stage, the contributor views a guidance screen with community-provided advice and reminders relevant to the selected article type. By clicking the “Start writing” button, the contributor accesses the Visual Editor, which includes community-defined structure for the chosen article type. This support is designed to reduce blank-page anxiety and help contributors begin writing confidently by following prompts and guides.

Step 6. Post-publishing invite

After a contributor publishes their work, they are invited to expand or review it. For example, they may be invited to add sections from the original outline that were not included. They may also be asked to complete additional micro-tasks, such as adding an image to their article.


Experiment phase

The Article guidance feature will be evaluated through an A/B test targeting junior editors creating articles on mobile. The experiment will measure whether guided article creation improves the 30-day survival rate of these articles. Key metrics and entry points are being finalized. The test will launch after pilot wiki communities have tested the workflow in English, provided feedback, and refinements have been implemented. Pilot wikis will also need to adapt and translate article outlines into their languages before experimentation. The experiment will be configured in Test Kitchen, with ongoing monitoring in Superset. If the experiment does not improve survival rates and increases abandonment across all pilot wikis, work on guided article creation will be halted and the approach will be reassessed.

Por qué una guía de creación de artículos

The intention is to help new editors easily understand and apply the existing practices and policies, and navigate the task of starting a new article with ease. It is also meant to reduce the workload for administrators, enabling them to safeguard article quality more effectively. This initiative is inspired by community needs captured in the wishlist, discussions and feedback with some communities on the Article creation for new editors idea.

  • Crear un nuevo artículo es motivador, y a la vez es retador.
    Crear exitosamente un artículo aprobado y de alta calidad es un logro tangible para cualquier persona que edita y un factor de motivación para continuar contribuyendo. Sin embargo, esta responsibilidad y logro vienen con retos y puntos de dolor.
    Successfully creating a high-quality, approved article is a tangible accomplishment for an editor and a motivating factor for continued contributions. However, this responsibility and accomplishment comes with challenges and pain points.
  • Las razones específicas de rechazo a las contribuciones de editores y editoras recién llegadas
    Las y los novatos a menudo y especialmente enfrentan las intimidantes tareas de:
    New editors, especially, often face the daunting task of:
    • navegar las políticas complejas de edición
    • entender los criterios de buena calidad que esperan el equipo de moderación y la comunidad Wikipedia.
  • La mayoría de las veces, estas personas no tienen éxito; sus artículos son borrados porque éstos no cumplen con los estándares de calidad por razones como:
    • Falta de fuentes de información
    • Las fuentes de información no son verificables
    • El artículo no está redactado con neutralidad
    • El artículo no sigue la estructura requerida
  • El impacto de los contenidos de baja calidad generados por IA
    Con el avance de la IA, algunas personas buscan contribuir usando atajos que les permiten escribir artículos que no cumplen con los estándares de la comunidad.
    With the advancement in AI, some contributors resort to shortcuts to write articles that don’t meet our community’s standards.
  • El tiempo que los patrulleros usan en revisar contribuciones inadecuadas
    Las personas que patrullan gastan tiempo en revisar y tomar decisiones sobre las contribuciones de baja calidad, lo cual les crea una pesada cola de trabajo pendiente.
    Patrollers spend time reviewing and deliberating on low-quality submissions, which creates a heavy backlog of work for them.
  • Las contribuciones revertidas disminuyen la motivación de quienes contribuyen y cansan a quienes patrullan.

Los problemas arriba mencionados también han sido resaltados en una lista de deseos de la comunidad y han sido extensivamente discutidas entre el equipo de Crecimiento y la comunidad de la Wikipedia en inglés, y se ven reflejadas en la retroalimentación de varias comunidades.

Oportunidades potenciales para enfrentar los problemas

De acuerdo con la retroalimentación comunitaria y los estudios de investigación subsecuentes, hemos identificado funcionalidades potenciales que podríamos explorar y probar con las comunidades.

  • Ayudar a las y los editores a encontrar, entender y aplicar referencias, que son elementos clave para la creación exitosa de contenidos.
  • Identificar tipos de artículos para ofrecer apoyo enfocado a editores y editoras nuevas.
  • Establecer esquemas de artículo definidos por la comunidad. Colaborar con las comunidades y/o usar artículos ejemplares para establecer esquemas para distintos tipos de artículos.
  • Habilitar el reuso rápido de esquemas de contenido. Sugerir componentes básicos de un artículo, tales como secciones, párrafos, hechos rápidos, fichas [infoboxes], etc.
  • Resaltar políticas clave. Ofrecer ayuda relevante en el flujo de trabajo de la edición para cada tipo de artículo.
  • Dar prioridad a la usabilidad de la edición en dispositivos móviles a la vez que se da apoyo a los usuarios de la versión de escritorio.
  • Usar un enfoque de aprender mediante hacer las cosas que apoye a las personas usuarias a crear el borrador de un artículo bien referenciado.

Estas ideas reflejan las prácticas comunitarias existentes en aquellas comunidades que han definido estructuras y lineamientos para tipos específicos de artículos. Hay ejemplos del voluntariado (Taller de usuario+), en los WikiProyectos (tales como WikiProyecto Medicina o WikiProyecto Primates en la Wikipedia en inglés), y en grupos afiliados (como el trabajo de Wikimedia Brasil en MBabel o los panfletos sobre temas específicos de la Fundación Wiki Education). Sin embargo, las herramientas actuales de creación de contenidos no facilitan su descubrimiento o uso. Deseamos aumentar las capacidades de las herramientas existentes para apoyar estas prácticas. There are examples from volunteers (User sandbox+), WikiProjects (such as WikiProject Medicine or WikiProject Primates), and affiliates (such as Wikimedia Brasil's work on MBabel or Wiki Education Foundation’s subject-specific handouts). However, current content creation tools do not facilitate their discovery or application. We want to expand the capabilities of existing editing tools to support these practices.

Fase inicial

Proposal for initial intervention

Este proyecto está en las fases de exploración y experimentación temprana, y busca la conciencia y retroalimentación de la comunidad. Nos gustaría acercarnos a desarrollar cualquier funcionalidad desde una perspectiva experimental, asegurando que la exploración sea controlada y analizada. We are approaching this work from an experimental perspective, ensuring exploration is controlled, and analyzed.

The intervention will capture the user intent, and take advantage of identifying the type of article they try to create in order to provide some initial community-created guidance. More detail in the proposal document and the main ticket in Phabricator. Additional guidance will be considered for future interventions.

Multiple scenarios considered

For this initial intervention, scenarios from newcomers, experienced contributors, as well as reviewers were considered. For Newcomers, the scenarios are:

  • Creating invalid articles...
  • creating low-quality but valid articles...
  • Expanding existing articles...

Which can be in:

  • Large-sized Wikipedias
  • Medium-sized Wikipedias
  • Small-sized Wikipedias
  • Other wikis such as Wikivoyage.

The focus will be to introduce the article creation to junior editors on mobile in any language and reduce patroller burdens by reducing how many weak articles they need to delete.

Target wikis

Wikipedias with many valid pending articles to create, but also with reviewer challenges were considered. 6 Wikipedias were selected and additional wikis are collaborating with us based on their interest in the project. More contributors from other Wikipedias are open to participate in this work.

Possible metrics

  • Article deletion rates compared (with guidance vs. without guidance)
  • Abandon rate decrease
  • Editor retention increase.
  • Article creation increase.
  • Percentage of content meeting standard quality criteria increase.

Our key consideration is intended to solve some issues of the content creation process for some users on a few key types of article.

Community involvement

Through collaboration with pilot wikis and interested contributors, we gained insights into the following key questions

  • Which are some key types of articles junior editors would benefit the most from some guidance? E.g. Biographies, animals, movies...
  • For each of those:
    • Which are their recommended and discouraged sources? E.g. National Geographic is recommended, and Youtube is discouraged.
    • Is there a high risk of lack of notability? Where to direct them? E.g. For biographies, direct to draft space when not covered by 5+ other languages.
    • Any initial advice youʼll share with editors trying to create this type of articles? E.g. Make sure the animal is in the list from…
    • Any initial content that may help editors get started better than a blank page? E.g. This example paragraph, animal infobox, and two section titles.

Based on community feedback, we are developing a feature in a test wiki that provides guidance for editors throughout the editing workflow. This includes an outline to assist with content creation for various article types. Participating communities will be invited to:

  • Try the feature in a test environment
  • Provide feedback
  • Review and improve the sample outlines.

A step by step guide to assist communities in trying the feature is provided in this page.

Design proposal

The designs below are the early illustrations. They served as a guide to define a more detailed version of the workflow for the experiment.

Starting point

  • An illustration of starting an article not documented on Wikipedia. For instance, the Siberian tiger.
  • An example of a new article that can be created
    An example of a new article that can be created
  • Deciding to create the article
    Deciding to create the article

Choosing a title

Once the editor provides a title for the new article. Wikidata items match the title and surface the identified topic. When there is no Wikidata item for the exact topic, the editor selects a type of article by searching or browsing it.

  • An illustration of providing a title of an article and what happens next with the title.
  • Typing the title of the new article that has a Wikidata item
    Typing the title of the new article that has a Wikidata item
  • What happens when the title has no Wikidata item
    What happens when the title has no Wikidata item

Adding your sources and references upfront

With the title sorted, the next step is to ask editors to provide sources early in the process to convey their relevance and run some basic checks based on the number of sources and the Wikipedia community's recommended and discouraged lists of sources.

  • An illustration of how provided sources and references are added and checked.
  • Asking the user for their sources
    Asking the user for their sources
  • Suggesting additional checks to the user to help validate their decision and help them learn about what makes a good source
    Suggesting additional checks to the user to help validate their decision and help them learn about what makes a good source

Notability check and initial guidance

For cases where the community identifies a high risk of lack of notability, users can be provided with alternatives defined by the community. This is one of the stages where community-defined messages and initial contents are provided as initial guidance, which can include considerations and useful examples to follow.

  • An illustration of notability check and the initial guidance from communities' before the editing starts.
  • Providing alternatives when there is notability issues with sources
    Providing alternatives when there is notability issues with sources
  • Community's initial guidance with writing the article
    Community's initial guidance with writing the article

The editing stage

The rest of the content creation will take place in Visual Editor as usual. Future exploration may consider how to better assist users while they edit.

Moving to Visual Editor to continue the edit

Participación

A medida que exploramos este espacio, buscamos la colaboración con las comunidades para:

  • Intercambiar ideas sobre los enfoques que considerar, evitar, intentar y medir, a fin de evaluar el impacto del proyecto.
  • Identificar los tipos de artículos en los que la guía de creación podría ser útil.
  • Colaborar para crear un conjunto inicial de esquemas para los tipos de artículos seleccionados.
  • Probar el uso de esquemas para la creación de artículos y secciones en sus wikis.

Por favor, siéntete libre de compartir tus ideas en la página de discusión para ayudarnos a mejorar las ideas iniciales.

Seguido en Phabricator
Tarea T396029
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