Hello!

(This a quite long email, because it is super detailed.)

Some of you have certainly tested the New filters for Edit review, which improve Recent Changes review experience. At the moment, those filters are available as a Beta feature on all wikis.

We have received a lot of positive feedback about the filters, so we are going to move most of those features out of Beta next month. This email to introduce to you the features that will become default and the planned schedule.

What is released by default?

You can discover all improvements made on the project page.

When the deployment will be done, it will be possible to keep the Recent Changes pages like they are now by default through an option in your preferences.

Will be released by default:

• The new interface
  
• Quite all filters:
• Predictions about edit quality (using ORES, only on certain wikis)
• Predictions about whether users are in good faith (using ORES, only on certain wikis)
• Search by experience level
• Search by new change types
• Search by namespace and tag
• Watch your Watchlist
• Get (only) the latest
• Highlight results
• Bookmark filters sets
• Manage preferences right on the page
  

Will not be included in the default release but kept in Beta for the moment:

• Search by username
• Search by category
• See the ‘Unseen’ (on Watchlists only)
• Live updshare this schedule with your communityates
• All those filters applied to Watchlists (see my email from August 26)

When will it happen?

We have defined 3 phases for the release:

• Phase 1: Catalan Wikipedia, French Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia, on week of September 12.
  

Phase 1 wikis have been chosen by the development team for an early release. They will receive messages soon about this change. 

That early release is done to check if all is going good. We have repetitively tested the new features and we do not expect major issues.

If your community wants to be included in Phase 1, please let us know (we may refuse if we have too much requests).

• Phase 2: All communities except those with valid reasons why not, week of September 19
  

Communities with specific concerns or internal discussion can request to have the deployment to their wikis delayed to phase 3 (see below) if they have sensible, consistent with the project, actionable, realistic feedback to oppose (at the development team's appreciation). 

• Phase 3: Holdover from phase 2, week of October 1.

If your community have comments or requests concerning the deployments, please let us know (please provide links to community discussions).

[Reminder] The release of the New Filters on Watchlists (as a Beta feature) is independent from these phases and will happen on September 5 on all wikis.

What can I do to help?

First of all, you can share this schedule with your community. I'll send this announcement  in the coming weeks, to main wikis and wiki-thematic User Groups. Your wiki may not be on my list, or people may miss one message: that's why your help is necessary! :)

You can report bugs or suggest improvements anytime, directly to me or on Phabricator (#Edit-Review-Improvements-Integrated-Filters). Future improvements are listed on the project board on Phabricator.

You can also check the documentation to see if there is things to translate.

Please tell me if you have questions. 

Thank you for your help!

Benoît

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Benoît Evellin (Trizek)

Community Liaison

Wikimedia Foundation