MediaWiki talk:Editcheck-config.json

Initial addReferences configuration

In the context of us getting ready to test reference-check on this wiki, it seems like a good idea to get it configured appropriately for English Wikipedia's rules. As such, I'd like to suggest this initial configuration: test

	"addReference": {
		"ignoreLeadSection": true,
		"ignoreSections": ["notes", "notes and references", "references", "sources", "external links", "weblinks", "see also", "further reading", "bibliography", "publications", "works"]
	}

This will leave most of the check's behavior as its defaults, but will make sure it respects WP:LEADCITE and also the same list of "not really content per-se" sections that the add-a-link structured task is currently configured to ignore.

The default configuration can be seen on mediawiki.org. It basically boils down to "offer to add a reference after the terminal punctuation any time any user with less than 100 edits adds a new paragraph that's at least 50 characters long". The only part of that you couldn't change if you wanted to is that it currently has to be a new paragraph.

If there are no objections, feel free to create this message-override with those contents, or let me know and I can do it. It won't make anything appear for users until we actually change the site-config, but the effects can be seen by opening VisualEditor with the ecenable=1 URL parameter, e.g. go here. (The parameter does forcibly ignore the maximum edit-count setting, so you can actually test things with it.) DLynch (WMF) (talk) 02:53, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Upcoming Beta Feature release

Hi folks. Please see this post WP:VPT#Suggestion Mode – new Beta Feature on Tuesday about the upcoming release of the Beta Feature connected to this page. I've also added some related documentation/info links to the top of this talkpage.

In addition to the new changes to this page that the team has provided (and which you all control), there are some more experimental ideas for potential suggestion types in the version on Beta Cluster (https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Special:EditChecks), that you may like to examine, and either use directly, or use as inspiration for further locally-created suggestion-types.

Thanks, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 01:10, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Message

Coming from meta:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2026-2027, per WP:BEANS we probably don't want to link to WP:AISIGNS or let the editor know how we know, lest they superficially address the issues or game it. I think the message ought to be something along the lines of This text may include AI-generated content. AI-generated content can often violate several of Wikipedia's core content policies. Please ensure that the text is directly supported by the sources cited, and rewrite it using your own words. Thank you Very open to other proposals/suggestions Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 01:17, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Localize link request

Hi. The feature is being updated with the deployment train today, which means the current demo-links for each type (that point to Enwiki) will be replaced by the global defaults. In order to keep the local links, please could an admin create/update these pages, using these strings (in this format, for technical reasons. And just the plain text, not the bulletpoints). Here's an example edit from Beta Cluster.

• MediaWiki:Editcheck-disambiguation-descriptionlink
  • //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation
• MediaWiki:Editcheck-duplicate-link-descriptionlink
  • //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:REPEATLINK
• MediaWiki:Editcheck-external-link-descriptionlink
  • //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links
• MediaWiki:Editcheck-external-link-convertlink
  • //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:INTREFVE
• MediaWiki:Editcheck-headinglevels-descriptionlink
  • //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:GOODHEAD
• MediaWiki:Editcheck-image-caption-descriptionlink
  • //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CAP

Thanks! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:27, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:11, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

One quick correction: Please remove the space at the beginning of MediaWiki:Editcheck-disambiguation-descriptionlink. Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:00, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Looks like DLynch (WMF) already did this. I'm so sorry I didn't see this request until now; I would probably have seen and granted it sooner if you had pinged me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:18, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Noted. I'm always uncertain whether to ping people, as some editors get frustrated by the extra notification if they're subscribed to a thread. I think I'll start defaulting to ping-if-reply/action-needed. Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:37, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

False-positive for "here is a"

The current "LLM-user-comms" entry in the json is generating a false-positive for the keyphrase "here is a" within the article Eric D. Walrond (as reported at the suggestions feedback page). I suggest updating that json entry to either: remove the "here is a" key-phrase, or add ignoreQuotedContent: true to that entry. Cheers, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 16:48, 9 June 2026 (UTC)