Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Task prioritization
Description
Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks, so they can more efficiently review and uphold the quality of content on their wikis.
We'll know we're successful if this work improves editor or patroller satisfaction and reduces the "queue" of things to review.
Background
With the scale and breadth of editing activity on Wikipedia (example), even advanced editors and patrollers can be flooded with information and feel overwhelmed on where to focus. As one contributor said: "If one has many articles on the Watchlist and wants to check all of them or as many as possible, this takes a lot of time. It also takes more effort to see the semantic changes done by human editors when diffs are very long and cluttered with such bot changes."
Contributors and editors need better tooling and capabilities to uphold the quality of their respective wikis, specifically to signal where and how to focus first. Use cases include editors who want to maintain quality of a specific topic (i.e., transit systems) that align to their personal interests, and editors who seek to ensure that topical and newsworthy edits (i.e., 2024 Olympics) or new pages align to the quality standards of their wiki.
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.
Other details
Last updated: 19:56, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Created: 08:54, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suggested tasks based on contributions history (user interests) also for experienced editors | Feature request | Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons | December 13, 2024 | Open | |
| Single good way of listing revisions on mobile web | System change | All projects | November 28, 2024 | Open | |
| Watchlist highlighting | Feature request | All projects | November 28, 2024 | Open | |
| Watchlist - identify Structured Data changes | T380021 | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | November 15, 2024 | Open |
| A way to filter edits by Citation bot, InternetArchiveBot and OAbot from diffs | Feature request | Wikipedia | September 25, 2024 | Open | |
| To-do list | T3492 | Feature request | All projects | August 21, 2024 | Open |
| Help editors plan their work more easily | Feature request | All projects | August 20, 2024 | Open | |
| Watchlist review timeout issue | Unknown | Wikipedia | August 14, 2024 | Open | |
| Add preference for green and yellow wikilinks to denote Good and Featured Articles | Feature request | Wikipedia | August 14, 2024 | Open | |
| Watchlist - hide structured data edits | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | August 6, 2024 | Open | |
| Move watchlists in the Global Watchlist | System change | All projects | August 6, 2024 | Open |
Voting
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Supporters of this area
Support Johnson524 (talk) 04:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC) Each of these wishlist items seem like they could be a good addition to their respective projects Support Keith D (talk) 19:20, 12 August 2024 (UTC) The time-out issue is a must to fix, the highlighting one need some thought to come-up with a workable solution, rest are quick-wins. Support Prototyperspective (talk) 15:59, 17 August 2024 (UTC) this = more time that can be used for any other contributions; however I don't think it's (only) "prioritization" – it's also (mainly) better task organization including removals of repetitive tasks that don't need to be done or tags/notes for watchlisted items. Support 2NumForIce (talk) 02:17, 27 August 2024 (UTC) They're all very nice features, especially to-do list, to keep a list of tasks on-wiki, as well as watchlist improvements.