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Suggested Edits: Add a new "Hard" task type for maintenance templates that are more challenging for newcomers
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Description

Some of the maintenance templates in the "copy edit" category are not easy for newcomers and don't fit into what many people view as copy editing (basic spelling and grammar improvements). We should create a new "Hard" task type to fit some of the more difficult maintenance templates tasks.

Related community discussion.

Open questions:

  • What should this new Hard type of task be called? Text cleanup / Encyclopedic Tone Copy editing / ????
  • Should these tasks include more specialized onboarding & links to the relevant NPOV article, etc.

Acceptance Criteria

TBD

Completion checklist

Functionality

  • The patches have been code reviewed and merged
  • The task passes its acceptance criteria

Engineering

  • There are existing and passing unit/integration tests
  • Tests for every involved patch should pass
  • Coverage for every involved project should have improved or stayed the same

Design & QA

  • If the task is UX/Design related: it must be reviewed and approved by the UX/Design team
  • Must be reviewed and approved by Quality Assurance.

Documentation

  • Related and updated documentation done where necessary

Event Timeline

See also T291349: Full community configuration support for suggested edits. The "hard" category already exists. It sounds like what we need is the ability to define arbitrary task types and move them around the different categories. That is unfortunately not a straightforward thing to do.

Thank you, @kostajh ! I guess I meant a new hard "task type" not "category".
T291349 certainly covers the user problem I was trying to document, but also quite a bit more extensibility than I was trying to cover in this task.

Since we have only one hard task type in Suggested Edits (Expand short articles), I was wondering if it made sense to include an additional task type that could fit the more challenging maintenance templates that require more wiki-specific knowledge.

In your opinion, is that an easy addition worth considering, or should we decline this task in favor of eventually pursuing the higher effort (but also likely higher-impact) task of further improving community configuration - T291349.

KStoller-WMF renamed this task from Suggested Edits: Add a new "Hard" category for maintenance templates that are more challenging for newcomers to Suggested Edits: Add a new "Hard" task type for maintenance templates that are more challenging for newcomers.Sep 2 2022, 6:33 PM
KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

I think we should let communities define the tasks and the difficulty of them. T291349 is the go task.

Regarding how difficult a task is, what communities (and us) can provide is a guess. The only people who can say if a task is easy/medium/hard are the end users, and we don't have (yet) a way to collect their feedback.