Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks (Community Wishlist/FA3)
Background
Wiki editors and patrollers perform many repetitive tasks, such adding "citation needed" to a claim, requesting a speedy deletion, or even generating content. While there are a number of bots, gadgets, and extensions to improve repetitive tasks, users who frequently review the edits of others must often manually type in data or write in templates to maintain and groom their local wiki. We think there are additional opportunities to automate or improve the user experience for repetitive tasks to improve moderator satisfaction and efficiency.
Objectives
This focus area connects to the following Wikimedia Foundation objectives:
- WE1: Both experienced and new contributors rally together online to build a trustworthy encyclopedia, with more ease and less frustration.
- WE2: Communities are supported to effectively close knowledge gaps through tools and support systems that are easier to access, adapt, and improve, ensuring increased growth in trustworthy encyclopedic content.
Target audience
- Patrollers and advanced editors. Users who review the work of others to maintain the quality of content on their respective wikis. These users frequently insert templates such as citation needed, speedy deletion, etc.
- Created: 14:27, 6 August 2024
- Last updated: 03:15, 5 October 2025
This focus area was informed by submissions from: Closed Limelike Curves, Ebrahim, WikiBayer, Doğu, CanonNi
This focus area currently has 24 supporters. Voting for this focus area is open until it is completed.
- Yes but none of the wishes included here seems to be about that. Which is it? There is such adding "citation needed" to a claim in the background info which I find misleading since no wish is about that. The focus area title (it sounds important&useful) is also somewhat misleading since checking watchlists is also a repetitive task but issues about improving that not included. --Prototyperspective (talk) 14:01, 25 October 2024 (UTC)