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Investigate whether BetaFeatures can be made available to logged-out users
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Investigate whether BetaFeatures can be made available to logged-out users on desktop. Based on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_%28Product%29/Process_ideas#Engage_unregistered_users

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You would need to:

  • Set a cookie that makes them bypass varnish (in coordination with ops)
  • Some kind of client-side storage on what preferences are enabled, probably the cookie
  • Create a special page outside of Special:Preferences for anonymous users to use
  • ...?
Legoktm triaged this task as Lowest priority.Oct 15 2015, 10:51 PM

So many things assume this day that anon requests are cached that making it bugless would be fun.