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Based on what I'm seeing in the data, it appears that some sections of the opentask list are much more appealing to users than others. Check out the image to the right: that's the opentask template with percentages of clicks going to each task type. As you can see, the top two task types, wikifying and copyediting, get a fourth of all total clicks on the list.

Part of this might have to do with length/order: the current list is so long that it looks like people are just skipping over the middle sections and looking only at the top and bottom. I'd like to propose cutting a few of the task types for a tighter and more useful list. Take a look at this proposed new opentask, based on the most popular task types by clicks and edits.

Thoughts? (Also posted on the Community portal talk page.) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 18:40, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Would a 'show/hide' function be useful in keeping the less popular but under-serviced areas on, without taking up too much space on screen (until someone clicks on 'show' to unhide the other tasks)? --PFHLai (talk) 21:35, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Redefined Wikify category

After Template:Wikify was deleted and turned into a disambiguation page, its corresponding category (Category:All articles that need to be wikified) was deleted, leaving SuggestBot unable to update that part of the list of open tasks. I've coded up a fix that instead grabs articles that have been tagged with the following templates: {{Dead end}}, {{Inadequate lead}}, {{Lead too short}}, {{Lead too long}}, {{Underlinked}}, and {{Overlinked}}.

Given that a couple of the templates refer to the lead rather than the number of wikilinks, the current description of the "wikify" task category ("Add wikilinks") should be rephrased, and the link to the tutorial should change (or be supplemented). I'm currently not sure what the new description should be or where it should link to, so I hope someone else could come up with some good suggestions. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 21:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

I went ahead and made a minor change the category description and reinstated the necessary span-elements to make SuggestBot update the category again. Let me know if bugs happen. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 18:39, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for jumping in and fixing the missing cleanup list, Nettrom! I think those categories, wikifying and lead section improvement, should probably be split up into two – perhaps we could replace Clean up (which is pretty vague) with Improve lead section? That seems like a really great new user task, since all it requires is a bit of skimming and adding information that already exists in the body of an article to the top. I'd be interested to try that out at Template:Opentask-short, too... Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:04, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I think splitting and replacing the "Clean up" category sounds like a good idea. I had a quick look at Misplaced Pages:Cleanup process, which is what "Learn how" linked from "Clean up" leads to, and that page looked pretty overwhelming! The three lead-related templates all put articles into Category:Misplaced Pages introduction cleanup, so how about we switch "Clean up" with articles from that category, then? That would also mean that what was previously "Wikify" becomes a category only about wikilinks. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 14:37, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I went ahead with this change. What used to be "Clean up" is now "Improve lead sections", leaving the wikilinks section to only be about wikilinks. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:49, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks, Nettrom! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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