Current draft design:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limit_%22Add_a_link%22_annotated.jpg

1. Community Configuration form: example of how "Add a Link" limit could be Community Configurable
2. Suggested edits task filters (What's a good name for this filter? "Easy Structured Tasks", "Beginner", "First Steps"?)
3. Suggested edits task menu - full view when Add a Link task is available
4. Example notification that could be triggered if we set the limit based on number of "Add a link" tasks completed
5. Suggested edits task menu - full view when Add a Link task is not available

I should also note that for the Suggested edits task menu, we have mocked up the "levels" with the current easy/medium/hard language, but we are considering alternate language that might resonate more with newcomers, like:

Beginner
Contributor
Intermediate
Experienced

Hi @Nemoralis, I understand there are concerns that some new editors may use the "Add a Link" feature to quickly accumulate edits for the purpose of gaining voting rights.

While we already have a task in place to address this from a blocking and abuse-prevention perspective (T383410: Provide partial block for Suggested edits), I wonder if there’s an opportunity to address the issue in a way that’s more supportive of newcomers’ growth.

Specifically, we’re discussing a Community Configurable setting that would allow admins to limit access to "Add a Link" after a certain number of edits. For example, the feature could be available to new account holders for their first 100 or 200 edits, after which they would “graduate” from this structured task and be encouraged to engage in more open-ended editing. This approach could help ensure that "Add a Link" serves as an entry point for learning, rather than a path to artificially inflate edit counts.

Thoughts? Do you think this will help?

Hi @KStoller-WMF! I discussed this with Martin at the Hackathon and told him it would be nice to add a way to prevent users from abusing this feature to boost their edit count. I think this approach you are discussing of will help. I think communities will be able to change "number of first edits", right?

I think communities will be able to change "number of first edits", right?

We were actually discussing this earlier today: should the edit limit be predefined, or should communities have the ability to adjust it themselves? It sounds like you’d prefer to give communities the flexibility to adjust the limit. What threshold would you recommend for azwiki?

In T390079#10797715, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

I think communities will be able to change "number of first edits", right?

What threshold would you recommend for azwiki?

Probably 100 or less. By the way, with the current default "maximum number of suggested tasks", a user could make 500 edits in just 20 days and wait another 10 days to get extendedconfirmed user group on azwiki and participate in votings and deletion discussions, instead of reaching to this naturally. I've reduced this default number to 10 after Martin's advice.

Thanks, @Nemoralis! We'll share second iteration designs soon which incorporate your feedback.

Thanks for making that config change, I can see how the "25" default might be too high for some wikis. Hopefully communities that are concerned about "Add a link" being used to gain a high edit count quickly can use a combination of both the "maxTasksPerDay" and the "Max Edits Per User" setting we are discussing in this task.

In T390079#10797759, @Nemoralis wrote:

In T390079#10797715, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

I think communities will be able to change "number of first edits", right?

What threshold would you recommend for azwiki?

Probably 100 or less. By the way, with the current default "maximum number of suggested tasks", a user could make 500 edits in just 20 days and wait another 10 days to get extendedconfirmed user group on azwiki and participate in votings and deletion discussions, instead of reaching to this naturally. I've reduced this default number to 10 after Martin's advice.

Similar thoughts have been discussed on dewiki as well. Users get autopromoted to user groups related to FlaggedRevisions after 150 and 300 edits – we don't want them to achieve these edit counts by primarily doing small edits like the add link task. We would probably set a limit of ~50 edits per user, people should move on quickly to other activities after making their first edit experiences with this task.

Thanks for the feedback and specific examples of community needs, @Johanneslange89 & @Nemoralis!

We've revised the associated Community Configuration designs to allow communities to set this limit:

Hopefully that sounds good, but feel free to chime in if you have further feedback!

Thanks for exploring this, looks good! I've removed Johanneslange89 from this task, the user is not related to me.

In T390079#10806136, @Johannnes89 wrote:

Thanks for exploring this, looks good! I've removed Johanneslange89 from this task, the user is not related to me.

Thank you! 😅