Enable Discussion Tools on API Portal
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Enable the Discussion Tools extension on api.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org and api.wikimedia.org

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	apiportal: enable discussion tools	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+2 -0

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Mentioned In: T256793: API Portal: Design validation for WikimediaApiPortal skin
Mentioned Here: T233447: [OKR] Increase response rates
T249579: [EPIC] Usability improvements: make the actions, activity and content within talk pages easier to understand

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• apaskulin created this task.Aug 17 2020, 10:08 PM

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• apaskulin mentioned this in T256793: API Portal: Design validation for WikimediaApiPortal skin.Aug 17 2020, 10:10 PM

Reedy edited projects, added Wikimedia-Site-requests; removed WikimediaApiPortal.Aug 18 2020, 1:16 AM

Hmm...do we allow SD at new wikis? I'm fairly sure no new content wikis would get it, through apiportalwiki might be an exception.

For the records, https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Limits_to_configuration_changes&oldid=20353904 lists StructuredDiscussions as an unsupported technology.

Urbanecm moved this task from Backlog to Analysis / under discussion on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Aug 18 2020, 10:47 PM

DannyS712 awarded a token.Aug 19 2020, 5:53 AM

StructuredDiscussions has some disadvantages compared to normal talk pages imo, and per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_configuration_changes enabling it on more wikis is a "Prohibited changes":

Some extensions are currently installed in some Wikimedia wikis, but have significant unresolved problems or bugs. So it is decided not to install these extensions to further wikis, though existing installations will be preserved.

I believe that DiscussionTools is intended the partially fulfill the use case for StructuredDiscussions. Maybe that should be deployed instead?

taavi awarded a token.Aug 19 2020, 6:28 AM

• WDoranWMF reassigned this task from • CCicalese_WMF to • eprodromou.Aug 25 2020, 2:57 PM

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@ppelberg this is our ticket for the discussion.

In T260624#6505008, @eprodromou wrote:

@ppelberg this is our ticket for the discussion.

Thank you for the ping, @eprodromou. The Editing Team would prefer Structured Discussions not be deployed to any new wikis and instead, install DiscussionTools on on api.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org.

Provided the above is okay with you (read: doing so doesn't create any "existential" issues for y'all), we are assuming you have the knowledge you need to deploy DiscussionTools on api.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org. If this is not the cases, and you would value guidance from us, please let us know; we're happy to help. cc @Esanders

For now, DiscussionTools will unlock a simplified workflow for responding to specific comments (see: Talk pages project/Replying). Soon, it will unlock a new workflow for starting new discussion topics (see: Talk pages project/New discussion) and later:

Enhanced notifications for ensuring people are aware when others are talking to them/saying things about topics they have expressed an interest in (T233447) and
Visual improvements to make the activity, actions and content within talk pages more legible (T249579)

• WDoranWMF moved this task from Sprint 4 to Sprint 5 on the Platform Team Sprints Board board.Oct 2 2020, 3:52 PM

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• eprodromou moved this task from Ready to Doing on the Platform Team Workboards (Green) board.Oct 7 2020, 4:22 PM

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• eprodromou moved this task from Blocked to Ready on the Platform Team Workboards (Green) board.Oct 13 2020, 2:25 PM

Well, there we are. @apaskulin I'll let you take it from here.

• apaskulin renamed this task from Enable Structured Discussions on API Portal beta site to Enable Discussion Tools on API Portal.Oct 13 2020, 3:05 PM

• apaskulin updated the task description. (Show Details)

Hi @hnowlan! Does it make sense to assign this task to you?

Change 633980 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hnowlan; owner: Hnowlan):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] apiportal: enable discussion tools

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633980

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 14 2020, 11:41 AM

Change 633980 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] apiportal: enable discussion tools

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633980

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 19 2020, 3:10 PM