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DE2.5.3: Abstract Wikipedia editing improvements
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This Hypothesis is part of key result DE2.5 of the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan: "Abstract Wikipedia Experience: By the end of Q3, enable editors without in-depth Wikifunctions knowledge to create and improve Abstract articles, and know what to do when the content they want cannot yet be expressed.":

If we iteratively implement and evaluate the recommended article-editing direction from the Q1 design exploration, starting with focused improvements, then we can progressively make meaningful editing and article creation accessible to a broader, less technical contributor base.

Work this quarter (October–December 2026)

Ships:

  • T441402 Add content dialog: one place for a blank fragment, the functions the community suggests, and function search
  • T441401 When a function search finds nothing, offer to request or create the function on Wikifunctions (only on Abstract Wikipedia)

Spike, nothing ships:

  • T441809 Similar-article suggestions, starting with quality articles that the community picks by hand: make the main decisions and write the spec

Also:

  • T441407 Ad hoc work after the integration in Igbo and Dagbani Wikipedia
  • T441405 Evaluate the editing improvements with contributors (to be confirmed)
  • T441406 Try a fragment's function call on Wikifunctions (lowest priority, only if there is time)
NOTE: This is an early draft of the top-level Epic. Details to be worked out.

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Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Related tickets
T436236 - Suggest article content or functions extracted from quality abstract articles of a similar article type to the one the editor is creating ("Solution A")
T436840 - Suggest article content or functions from
the Wikidata item page of the article being created. 
This will involve matching Wikidata properties to function groups. ("Solution B")