Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Repetitive tasks
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paragraph-level cherry-picking for diffs | T326162 | Feature request | Wikipedia | September 21, 2024 | Open |
| Link "diff" and "hist" for category changes on Watchlist/RecentChanges | T148533 | Bug report | All projects | August 22, 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) 08:32, 8 August 2024 (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) 04:37, 17 August 2024 (UTC) Some way to make applying Citation needed easier would be helpful- Yes but none of the wishes included here seems to be about that. Which is it? There is such adding "citation needed" to a claim in the background info which I find misleading since no wish is about that. The focus area title (it sounds important&useful) is also somewhat misleading since checking watchlists is also a repetitive task but issues about improving that not included. --Prototyperspective (talk) 14:01, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Support Polygnotus (talk) 23:54, 28 August 2024 (UTC) Supporting Link "diff" and "hist" for category changes on Watchlist RecentChanges and the CSS changes mentioned here. Thats it. Support Hakimi97 (talk) 03:07, 29 August 2024 (UTC) Especially Adiutor. Although Twinkle contains more maintenance tags but it is too outdated in terms of interface. Support Alachuckthebuck (talk) 16:41, 9 September 2024 (UTC) Please, we need all the tools we can get, especially at commons Support MER-C (talk) 10:34, 28 September 2024 (UTC) I would also like to see mass admin action tools applied to arbitrary lists of users/pages.