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 available on certain wikis.
This deployment would happen by phases, starting on Tuesday March 28 on Mediawikiwiki, Portuguese Wikipedia and Polish Wikipedia.
What is this new feature?
This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked by adding new useful features that will ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:
- Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations.
- Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring, to quickly identify the ones that matter to you.
- Quality and Intent Filters - user ORES predictions to identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need assistance.
You can watch a video 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 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 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.
- Users who want to opt-out will be able to do so in their preferences as well.
If your wiki doesn't have ORES predictions highlighting, 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 i
s not scheduled 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.
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 (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-.
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