Hello InsaneHacker! My name is Martin Urbanec, and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation Growth team as a software engineer. We recently noticed that the task pool for "expand article" on Danish Wikipedia is empty. While investigating that issue, I noticed that you added several templates to "expand an article" task – thanks for doing that! Unfortunately, the change added "too many templates", which means the tool ignored them all, and didn't suggest any articles. To unbreak the features for newcomers, I temporarily reverted your edit.
I understand that your wiki uses specialized stub templates for individual topics, and that you want to add them all there. I see that the specialized stub templates are constructed using {{standardstub}}. Would it be possible to add standardstub to the template list at MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json instead?
The Growth team features should still be able to handle that, it considers all templates that are used in that article, no matter if directly, or indirectly through another template. However, I'm not sure about context of all usages of the {{standardstub}} template. Could you please advice on what we should do now?
Please do let me know if you have any questions. Best wishes, Martin Urbanec (WMF) (diskussion) 8. apr 2021, 14:04 (CEST)
@Martin Urbanec (WMF): Thank you for looking into the issue of the empty task suggestion pool. The stub templates I added aren't all of our stub templates, just a subset which we deemed to cover most areas which might be of interest to editors. Of course, it's a problem if there are too many for the system to handle.
I'm not knowledgeable enough about {{standardstub}} to give you an answer. I'm gonna ping @Steenth: Steen, do you think there would be any unintended consequences from this? It seems like it would work to me. -- InsaneHacker 🕊️ (🗨️) 8. apr 2021, 15:47 (CEST)
@Steenth og InsaneHacker: Thanks for your answers! If you both think those templates are not used in articles that shouldn't be suggested, could one of you add the templates to the config file, please? Thanks! Best, --Martin Urbanec (WMF) (diskussion) 8. apr 2021, 16:14 (CEST)
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