This task is about adding a link to the multi-line RfC within the mode switching exception messages that will have been implemented in T256150.
Rationale:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | Catrope | T186463 Uninstall Flow from Commons | |||
| Open | None | T188806 create a Flow uninstall script | |||
| Resolved | Catrope | T122961 Remove Flow from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Breakfast on enwp | |||
| Invalid | Nemo_bis | T88102 Consider possibility of enabling Flow on translatewiki.net | |||
| Open | None | T96301 Solution for disabling Flow on a page | |||
| Open | None | T230654 Parser support for talk pages | |||
| Open | None | T242777 Content in list item not serialized correctly | |||
| Declined | matmarex | T265564 Allow inserting a new line | |||
| Open | None | T230683 New syntax for multiline list items / talk page comments | |||
| Open | None | T246960 Publish Technical RfC: new syntax for multi-line list items/talk page comments | |||
| Resolved | • ppelberg | T256694 Add RfC link to "switching disabled" exception message |
I don't think we should have a direct link in the error message. At best it will just result in many "+1" comments, which are not particularly useful, and at worst someone will get upset that we're canvassing people.
Currently the message only links to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionTools/Reply_tool_visual_mode_limitations, and I think that's perfectly fine. We should only update that page with a link to the RFC when that's created. (Right now it links to T230683, maybe that's enough actually?)
This might be very theoretical, but if such a link was added in the DiscussionTools code repository (in contrast to e.g. WikimediaMessages) then any third-party MediaWiki installation with that extension and that extension's git revision will also display that RfC link for years to come (if software versions on that third-party wiki do not regularly get updated). Similar approaches have taken place in the past and I'd dare to call that a bad practice.
During today's meeting we agreed that the link will link to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools/Reply_tool_visual_mode_limitations. @ppelberg is going to update the link on that page to go to the RFC mediawiki page, which is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:PPelberg_(WMF)/sandbox.