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Consult with volunteers at ru.wiki about offering the Reply Tool as a Beta Feature
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A conversation is ongoing at ru.wikipedia.org here: https://w.wiki/32ET

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ppelberg added a subscriber: Jack_who_built_the_house.

Task description update
Adding a link to the conversation @Jack_who_built_the_house and @Whatamidoing-WMF are having with volunteers at ru.wikipedia.org.

The main concern raised at this discussion was the Reply tool replying to * with *: instead of **.

This discussion has been summarized and archived at https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Форум/Архив/Общий/2021/02#DiscussionTools_и_двоеточия_в_качестве_отступов

The editors at the Russian Wikipedia have no objection to the Beta Feature being offered in a default-OFF, opt-in-only state.

Before it is enabled for editors as a default-on preference, they would like to see greater support for unordered (bullet) list formatting (starting with * instead of :).

Before it is enabled for editors as a default-on preference, they would like to see greater support for unordered (bullet) list formatting (starting with * instead of :).

(That is task T259864)

This has been deployed and is being used.