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Deploy config change to make Topic Subscriptions available as beta feature
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Description

This task is about making manual topic subscriptions available as a beta feature on ===Partner wikis (T274193) listed below

Deployment timing

Monday, 28 June 2021 during the 18:00 - 19:00 UTC deployment window

Partner wikis

via T274193.

Wiki codeVolunteer contact
arwiki@Dyolf77_WMF
cswiki@Patriccck
frwiki
huwiki@Samat
nlwiki
meta(no individual expected)
mediawikiwiki(no individual expected)

Requirements

For people at the partner wikis above who have the Discussion tools beta feature enabled, they will see the following:

  1. In Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures: the Discussion tools beta feature should contain a list item that reads: Receive notifications when new comments are added in sections you have subscribed to.
  2. In Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing: a new setting within the Discussion pages section that contains a setting titled Enable topic subscription and this setting should be enabled by default
  3. On a talk page with at least one ==H2==, a [ subscribe ] affordance should appear next to it

Done

  • All ===Requirements are met

Event Timeline

ppelberg added subscribers: Dyolf77_WMF, Samat.

@ppelberg to write in requirements and partner wikis

Done

Change 698622 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools' topicsubscription as beta feature on partner wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/698622

(Added planned deployment date to task description)

Change 698622 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools' topicsubscription as beta feature on partner wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/698622

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-06-28T18:11:11Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 4ae0fdd3ad19105fc36bd1eb7102dea9c4a5178d: Enable DiscussionTools topicsubscription as beta feature on partner wikis (T274280) (duration: 00m 57s)