Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Repetitive tasks/en
Description
Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks, so they can focus more on editing articles or other on-wiki activities.
We'll know we're successful if we can cut down on the number of edits in review and improve moderator satisfaction.
Background
Wiki editors and patrollers perform many repetitive tasks, such adding "citation needed" to a claim, requesting a speedy deletion, or even generating content. While there are a number of bots, gadgets, and extensions to improve repetitive tasks, users who frequently review the edits of others must often manually type in data or write in templates to maintain and groom their local wiki. We think there are additional opportunities to automate or improve the user experience for repetitive tasks to improve moderator satisfaction and efficiency.
Objectives
This focus area connects to the following Wikimedia Foundation objectives:
- WE1: Both experienced and new contributors rally together online to build a trustworthy encyclopedia, with more ease and less frustration.
- WE2: Communities are supported to effectively close knowledge gaps through tools and support systems that are easier to access, adapt, and improve, ensuring increased growth in trustworthy encyclopedic content.
Target audience
- Patrollers and advanced editors. Users who review the work of others to maintain the quality of content on their respective wikis. These users frequently insert templates such as citation needed, speedy deletion, etc.
Other details
Last updated: 19:58, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Created: 14:27, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Wishes in this focus area
Below is a list of wishes that have informed this focus area. More wishes may be added to this table over time. Voting for the focus area is not a guarantee that each wish will be explicitly delivered; rather, the wishes are suggestive of the problem at large. Once a focus area is adopted, the respective team will work alongside communities to prioritize and deliver on the most impactful solutions.
| Wish | Phabricator tasks | Type | Projects | Date (UTC) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Link "diff" and "hist" for category changes on Watchlist/RecentChanges | T148533 | Bug fix | All projects | August 22, 2024 | Open |
| Partial revert/undo | T326162 | Feature request | Wikipedia | August 17, 2024 | Open |
| Make the pending changes interface better | T369391, T370423 | System change | Wikipedia | August 9, 2024 | Open |
| Mark page created on the already deleted title | T22892 | Feature request | Wikipedia | August 8, 2024 | Open |
| Mass Admin Actions | Feature request | All projects | August 6, 2024 | Open | |
| Stewardship needed for Adiutor MediaWiki extension | T355150, T355153 | Feature request | Wikipedia | August 6, 2024 | Open |
Teams and affiliates
Community members
This focus area was informed by submissions from: Closed Limelike Curves, Ebrahim, WikiBayer, Doğu, CanonNi
Voting
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Supporters of this area
Support Sohom Datta (talk) August 8, 2024 08:32 (UTC) I think these sets of wishes are well articulated and solving them would benefit both editors on smaller local projects as well as the SWMT Support Mrfoogles (talk) August 17, 2024 04:37 (UTC) Some way to make applying Citation needed easier would be helpful Support Polygnotus (talk) August 28, 2024 23:54 (UTC) Supporting Link "diff" and "hist" for category changes on Watchlist RecentChanges and the CSS changes mentioned here. Thats it. Support Hakimi97 (talk) August 29, 2024 03:07 (UTC) Especially Adiutor. Although Twinkle contains more maintenance tags but it is too outdated in terms of interface. Support Alachuckthebuck (talk) September 9, 2024 16:41 (UTC) Please, we need all the tools we can get, especially at commons