User:Trizek (WMF)/sandbox/Growth message

[please test] "Add a link"

Hello

Sorry to write in English. Please help translate to your language.

I'm Trizek (WMF). I work as a community relations specialist for the Wikimedia Foundation, and in particular with the Growth team.

As you may already know, your wiki benefits from a set of tools, created to help newcomers in their first edits. Newcomers have access to a dedicated set of tools, mainly gathered on the newcomer Homepage. At some wikis, newcomers have a way to contact an experienced wikipedian, ready to help them.

Visiting their Homepage, newcomers have access to a set of tasks, filtered down by topics, and by task difficulty. One of the easy task is to add links between articles. We have improved this feature to make it easier for newcomers to use it.

The "new" Add a link allow users to review links that are suggested by the wiki. Links are suggested by a machine, and machines aren't perfect! Suggested links are about 75% correct but they need to be reviewed. As a user, your role is to determine if the links are the right ones, depending on the context.

At the moment, "Add a link" has been tested at 4 wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech and Vietnamese). There, newcomers are using it accurately, and are editing more. Please, discover how the links are added.

"Add a link" is now available at your wiki for test purposes. You can turn this tool on to test it, please follow the instructions.

This testing period will be two weeks long. After this, we will turn "Add a link" as the default feature for newcomers. The goal of the testing period is to figure out if the machine predicts accurate links.

Please let me know if you have any question, or feedback, about these tools. I will regularly check this page. If you move this message, please let me know as well.

Thank you. Trizek (WMF) (talk) 15:31, 7 July 2021 (UTC)