Pginer-WMF added a comment.

@rasmusskjoldan  thanks for your comments, here is some additional details:

One of the problems we identified in our tests is that when users enabled the 
beta feature, it was not clear where to find the main entry point to start or 
continue with translations. So we want to establish contributions as the entry 
point where users go to create new contributions such as translations (in 
addition to checking what they did as it currently supports).

For the particular case of this entry point, we tested two initial prototypes 
(on both you need to try to search for "empanadas" and create the page if it 
does not exist): one adding a banner above the content 
<http://nirzar.github.io/prototypes/cx/create-article/a/two-create-article.html>,
 and the other using a modal 
<http://nirzar.github.io/prototypes/cx/create-article/b/two-create-article-b.html>.

We found issues in both, the first one pushed the text area down which is the 
main element to edit. Existing templates also contributed to that but those are 
controlled by the community and we cannot do much more than trying to avoid 
making instruction heavier.
The modal version was perceived as more clear but it felt too blocking. It was 
hard to evaluate what to do if you cannot view all the information (and after 
closing the modal it was hard to revert your decision and figure out how to 
start a translation).

As a result we decided to use a flyout similar to what we used to invite users 
to try the beta feature in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89701. The goal 
in this case was to suggest you to translate the specific article you were 
about to create. If we achieve that (or a good enough guess) the plan is to 
show the popover immediately visible to invite the user to translate the 
article instead of starting from scratch.
If we are not able to figure out which article the user is trying to create, 
inviting to translate can result in unmet expectations (e.g., the article not 
available in a language the user can translate from) and I'm concerned in 
showing it immediately visible every single time (showing it once as we do for 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89701 can be acceptable).


TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88600

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To: Amire80, Pginer-WMF
Cc: rasmusskjoldan, Liuxinyu970226, Nemo_bis, gerritbot, Lydia_Pintscher, 
Pginer-WMF, Aklapper, Nirzar, santhosh, Arrbee, Amire80, Wikidata-bugs, aude, 
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