Hello tech ambassadors!
*TL;DR*
The Collaboration team is going to launch a new Beta feature on wikis, . This Beta feature is an improvement of the current ORES Beta feature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures available on certain wikis.
This deployment would happen by phases https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146972, starting on Tuesday March 28 on Mediawikiwiki, Portuguese Wikipedia and Polish Wikipedia.
*What is this new feature?*
This feature improves Special:RecentChanges https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked by adding new useful features that will ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:
- *Filtering https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering* - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations. - *Highlighting* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting_function - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring, to quickly identify the ones that matter to you. - *Quality and Intent Filters* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters - user ORES predictions to identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need assistance.
You can watch a video https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANew-feature_demo%E2%80%94smart_Recent_Changes_filtering_with_ORES.webm which explains the principle of filtering and highlighting, based on the prototype.
*What will happen?*
At the moment, the ORES beta feature is available in Beta preferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures on certain wikis.
For those wikis, when the deployment will be done:
- Users who have enabled the ORES beta feature will then use the New filters for Recent Changes Beta feature (no action needed, unless if you want to opt-out). - ORES predictions highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool will be activated by default for all users (not in Beta anymore, unless if you opt-out - see below). - ORES redirections are symbolized by a "r" red (in English at least) in the RecentChanges pages, for all users. - Users who want to change the accuracy level of ORES predictions or opt-out will be able to do so in their preferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal . - Users who want to opt-out will be able to do so in their preferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal as well.
If your wiki doesn't have ORES predictions highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool, the filters will work anyway. However, the predictions filters will not be available until the process to enable ORES predictions is completed for your wiki. The deployment is not scheduled https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158335at the moment for wikis without ORES predictions but will happen soon.
*How to prepare this change?*
You can discover the purpose of this project by visiting the quick tour help page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quick_tour .
Inform your community about this change will be really helpful. Please ping me - [[user:Trizek (WMF)]] - if you do so! I'll be very happy to answer all your questions.
Also, please check the documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review (and help to translate it). Please also have a look at the translations of the interface on translatewiki.net. The messages are prefixed as rcfilters-and ores-rcfilters-.
*For developers* We have created a hook that allow extensions to register filters for pages inheriting from ChangesListSpecialPage (in core: RecentChanges, RecentChangesLinked, and Watchlist) and will allow developers to set up filters for the new system. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ChangesListSpecialPageStructured...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review
The feedback page is open https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review to your comments. Please ping me if you have any questions.
On behalf of the Collaboration team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration, Benoît