On the parent task, a new way to built the sets of suggested links has been created. We need to compare it to the previous one. The sample searches at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mXx-U8Xsof06VdCARXsBKLNSTg-fbDER?usp=sharing need to be spot-checked.
Ambassadors will compare 25 links max for each set of links (with topic or without topic), and tell if the suggested links seem to be better.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T276517 [EPIC] Growth: "add a link" structured task 3.0 | |||
| Resolved | KStoller-WMF | T315732 [EPIC] Structured Tasks: Patroller Focus | |||
| Resolved | Tgr | T301096 Add a link: prioritize suggestions of underlinked articles | |||
| Resolved | Trizek-WMF | T314299 Add a link: check prioritized suggestions of underlinked articles |
@Trizek-WMF: Evaluation done!
To summarize, I think prefering prioritized articles is a good idea, but its edge cases (such as the ones listed above) can cause overall-bad edits to come anyway.
The work has been done for the 4 pilot wikis, and Ambassadors have share their thoughts.
Martin's feedback is aligned with other Ambassadors' feedback and observations. Overall, the new priority setup is better, even if is suggests longer articles, with less links. These longer articles are often low-quality articles, such as unreviewed machine translated articles, lists of series' episodes, movies plots. Some of them are unchanged bot creations.
Suggesting these low quality contents may be problematic, as we encourage newcomers to add links on articles that don't need them (synopsis) or that require more urgent efforts (reviewing translations, adding citations to walls of text, etc.).
@KStoller-WMF, @Tgr, my advice would be to refine the new model to identify articles that are underlinked walls of text with no images. These characteristics are often the ones of translated articles or lists of episodes. Excluding lists would be nice too.