The main obstacle I see with providing this tool for new users is that meaningful communication often requires pinging the other person, and DiscussionTools provides no affordance for that. I imagine it's hard to figure out programmatically when pinging is appropriate, so automatically doing that / adding the wikitext for it is not feasible, but some kind of button (like in the ruwiki gadget providing similar comment functionality) with some explanation of what it is for would be very useful.
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...meaningful communication often requires pinging the other person...
I like how simply and clearly you've articulated this, Gergo.
We are in the process of implementing pinging within the new Reply tool. If you're up for it, we'd be keen to hear what you think about what we have planned: T232601.
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...meaningful communication often requires pinging the other person...
I understand the root of the above to be about increasing the likelihood that people get helpful responses to the things they post.
To this end, we will be exploring this idea through three frames:
- Making it easier for people to stay up-to-date about conversations that are relevant to them.
- Where "relevant" means conversations people have an interested in, but have not already participated in (e.g. they have not commented in the conversations yet).
- Making it easier for people to know when someone has responded to something they have said.
- Making it easier for people to make others aware their input is needed.
More context here: T233447
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I'm not sure who's supposed to be prioritizing phab tickets, but I've taken the liberty of marking this as high priority. One look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Replying shows the lack of ping functionality is the run-away top item of discussion.
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(The Editing team isn't using the 'priority' field this year. Changing it has no practical effect.)