Edit check/Glossary
Glossary of terms used by Edit check project.
- Edit check
- A set of tools that aims to provide actionable feedback about Wikipedia policies to users while they are editing. Not to be confused with Checks, like References check or Tone Check.
- Check
- Name of the event that displays a relevant and actionable comment about a Wikipedia policy or rule, to a user when they are making an edit to a page using the visual editor.
- Checks can be of different types: References check, Tone Check...
- References check
- A type of edit check to encourage users to add citations in articles. It is the first check the Editing team released.
- Deployed/Activated
- Deployed wikis are wikis where Edit check is available, as the regular experience, as an A/B test, or as a shadow feature.
- Activated wikis are wikis where at least one Edit check was recorded. This edit check is tagged in history pages
- Multi-check
- When multiple checks are displayed at the same time, we call this state "multi-check".
- Proofreading state
- State of an edit, where the user clicks on Publish changes. This is where References check is displayed.
- Tone Check
- Formerly known as "Peacock check", this check helps new users to consider the neutrality of tone of the new content they add to on wiki.
- Paste Check
- This check appears when people paste text into an article they are likely not to have written.
- Text match check
- An open-ended text-matching Edit Check, with options for what actions are presented when a string is matched
- External Links check
- An Edit Check that detects external URLs within the prose content of an article, and asks people to decide whether it is warranted
- Disambiguation links check
- An Edit Check that detects links to disambiguation pages and invites people to decide whether linking to a specific page is more helpful.
- Image Captions check
- An Edit Check that detects images without captions, and invites people to provide one, if they think one is needed.
- Convert References check
- An Edit Check that detects bare URLs and invites people to replace them with formatted templates using VisualEditor's Citation tool (if configured locally), if they think one is needed.
- Link check and Reference reliability check
- An Edit Check that appears when someone attempts to add a URL that is listed in community defined spam-lists or blocked-domain lists, and informs them they cannot use this link.
- Suggestion Mode
- A feature that proactively suggests an expanding set of actionable and optional changes people can consider taking to improve content quality.
- Heading Level check
- An Edit Check that detects any headings that do not follow sequential order and invites people to correct them.
- Duplicate Links check
- An Edit Check that detects when the same page is linked-to more than once in the same paragraph or section, and invites people to remove the repeated link.
- Year Link misalignment check
- An Edit Check that detects when a link to a year page does not match the link-label, and invites people to fix the link.