Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias
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	Apr 4 2024, 2:33 PM

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This task involves the work of making the Reference Check available by default to people are not registered and people who have made ≤100 cumulative edits, per the default configuration at all Wikipedias except those listed at T366381 and T367343.

Deployment Timing

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Requirements

Deployment wikis

All Wikipedias EXCEPT:
- Bengali (bn)
- German (de)
- English (en)
- Hindi (hi)
- Indonesia (id)
- Dutch (nl)
- Polish (pl)
- Russian (ru)

Said another way: all Wikipedias except those listed at T366381 and T367343.

Configuration values

The configuration values specified in T330112, and reflected on mw:Configuration values#Configurable values, should remain unchanged.

Note for communities: This feature can be configured locally , see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check/Configuration.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+10 -24

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences
Open	Trizek-WMF	T331946 [RELEASE TICKET] Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at all Wikipedias
Resolved	DLynch	T361843 Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias
Open	Trizek-WMF	T352131 Publish findings from the Edit Check (references) A/B test
Resolved	MNeisler	T365741 Present Reference Check A/B test findings at June staff meeting
Resolved	Trizek-WMF	T366262 Publish findings from the Edit Check (references) A/B test on Diff

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Apr 4 2024, 2:33 PM

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Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T331946: [RELEASE TICKET] Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at all Wikipedias.Apr 4 2024, 2:38 PM

Hi,
I would like to add Icelandic Wikipedia (is.wikipedia) to the list.
Community consensus: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Heimildalausar_greinar:_EditCheck

ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the EditCheck board.May 29 2024, 3:45 PM

In T361843#9779552, @Snaevar wrote:

Hi,
I would like to add Icelandic Wikipedia (is.wikipedia) to the list.
Community consensus: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Heimildalausar_greinar:_EditCheck

Thank you for volunteering! :)

I'm pushing Icelandic up on the list at T331946, as they volunteered.

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)May 31 2024, 5:00 PM

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 12 2024, 5:55 PM

ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team (Kanban Board); removed Editing-team.

ppelberg added a subtask: T352131: Publish findings from the Edit Check (references) A/B test.Jun 12 2024, 6:14 PM

ppelberg mentioned this in T352131: Publish findings from the Edit Check (references) A/B test.Jun 12 2024, 6:18 PM

@Trizek-WMF: note I revised the planned deployment timing from Monday (17 June) to Tuesday (18 June) to afford us some additional time to refine the DIff post this deployment depends on being published.

ppelberg added a project: Goal.Jun 12 2024, 11:50 PM

Trizek-WMF added a project: User-notice.Jun 13 2024, 3:23 PM

Trizek-WMF moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 13 2024, 3:26 PM

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 13 2024, 8:35 PM

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ppelberg moved this task from Incoming to Ready to Be Worked On on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

Change #1047125 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1047125

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 18 2024, 4:19 PM

Change #1047125 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1047125

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-18T20:06:10Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1047099|cswiki: adding throttle rule, removing old throttle rule (T367858)]], [[gerrit:1047125|Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis (T361843)]], [[gerrit:1047131|Turn on Visual Editor collab beta feature on officewiki]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-18T20:10:46Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> urbanecm, superzerocool, kemayo: Backport for [[gerrit:1047099|cswiki: adding throttle rule, removing old throttle rule (T367858)]], [[gerrit:1047125|Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis (T361843)]], [[gerrit:1047131|Turn on Visual Editor collab beta feature on officewiki]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-18T20:14:05Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1047099|cswiki: adding throttle rule, removing old throttle rule (T367858)]], [[gerrit:1047125|Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis (T361843)]], [[gerrit:1047131|Turn on Visual Editor collab beta feature on officewiki]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-18T20:18:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> kemayo, urbanecm, superzerocool: Backport for [[gerrit:1047099|cswiki: adding throttle rule, removing old throttle rule (T367858)]], [[gerrit:1047125|Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis (T361843)]], [[gerrit:1047131|Turn on Visual Editor collab beta feature on officewiki]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 18 2024, 8:30 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-18T20:33:04Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1047099|cswiki: adding throttle rule, removing old throttle rule (T367858)]], [[gerrit:1047125|Deploy references edit check to phase 1 wikis (T361843)]], [[gerrit:1047131|Turn on Visual Editor collab beta feature on officewiki]] (duration: 18m 59s)

Quiddity moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Jun 20 2024, 5:26 PM

It doesn't really need much QA -- just make sure it's actually turned on where it should be and not on those 8 wikis.

ppelberg moved this task from Inbox to High Priority on the Editing QA board.Jun 27 2024, 5:11 PM

Ryasmeen closed this task as Resolved.Jul 10 2024, 11:14 PM

Ryasmeen moved this task from QA to Ready for Sign Off on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

Ryasmeen edited projects, added Verified; removed Editing QA.

Maintenance_bot edited projects, added User-notice-archive; removed User-notice.Jul 20 2024, 11:32 PM

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