User:Trizek (WMF)/sandbox/Editing/EC References results
Edit check experiment results - Vietnamese Wikipedia edition
[edit]Hello everyone
Sorry to use English. Please help translate to your language. Thank you.
We recently tested References Check at your wiki, so as at 10 other wikis. This feature encourages newcomers and IP users to add citations when they add a new paragraph on Wikipedia.
We tested this feature at your wiki between February 18 and April 4, 2024. We gave References Check to 50% of new accounts and IP users, while the remaining 50% got the regular experience, with no encouragement. This way, we were able to compare the experience for the two groups.
What was found?
Reference Check caused an increase in the quality of edits newcomers publish and did not cause any significant disruption. on average, 19% of users were adding a reference without being asked to. When References Check encourages them to add a citation, the percentage increases to 42.4%. On mobile, users add references 4.2 times more than on desktop when they are encouraged to.
For Vietnamese Wikipedia, on average, 17.4% of users were adding a reference without being asked to. When References Check encourages them to add a citation, the percentage increases to 40.9%.
For Vietnamese Wikipedia, the number of reverted edits made when References Check was shown increased: 11.2% users who added a reference without being asked to were reverted, this percentage increases to 16.4% when References Check encouraged them to add a citation. While we have an increase of the number of constructive edits, we wonder why the revert rate increased. Do you have an idea why?
We published the detailed results, and you can ask me if you have any more question about it.
What is next?
Given the good results, we ended the A/B est and deployed References Check for all beginners and IPs at your wiki.
We are also working on a a new Check, a new encouragement for IPs and newcomers. We are looking for ideas for this next step. In your opinion, what could be useful to explain to beginners when they start editing?
You can ask me if you have any more question about this project.