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/T158335>at 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/ChangesListSpecialPageStructure…
<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
--
Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation