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Remove "Switch to old look" from the sidebar on the first-batch test wikis
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Thesis: over several months, logged-in users of French, Hebrew, Farsi, etc. Wikipedias have had plenty of time to switch from the new Vector to Legacy Vector. Having an additional, bold link this long is "disturbing".

We might:

  1. Optionally: ask more users for opinion / check the click-through rate first.
  2. Then:
    1. Remove the link, or
    2. Make the link similar to the rest of the links in the sidebar (-bold, +standard line-height).
    3. Ask the community for objections, and if there's no red light, proceed either with #1 or with #2.
    4. Not change the link at all.
      1. Optionally: suggest how to modify the link via MediaWiki/user's CSS.

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sgrabarczuk created this task.Feb 9 2021, 4:06 PM
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The link is hardcoded into the template so it's not possible to disable it per wiki and I'd rather we didn't do this as it would add additional complexity to the code. Could we perhaps consider removing it from all wikis if enough time has passed?

As a compromise perhaps wikis could hide this via site CSS as they see fit.

@ovasileva thoughts?

Jdlrobson assigned this task to ovasileva.May 26 2021, 4:15 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.
ovasileva added a comment.May 27 2021, 11:30 AM
In T274267#7116538, @Jdlrobson wrote:

The link is hardcoded into the template so it's not possible to disable it per wiki and I'd rather we didn't do this as it would add additional complexity to the code. Could we perhaps consider removing it from all wikis if enough time has passed?

As a compromise perhaps wikis could hide this via site CSS as they see fit.

@ovasileva thoughts?

Do we have a feature flag for this? Would it be possible to add one? As we're deploying to more wikis I see us in a position where:

  • The initial set of pilot wikis don't need the link anymore at all
  • The new set of pilot wikis still need the link
Jdlrobson added a comment.May 27 2021, 6:44 PM

We do not have a feature flag right now. We can add one at cost - task to add it, a task to later remove, more risk of UI regressions relating to the link being there or not given the resulting permutations of the UI.

ovasileva triaged this task as Low priority.Jun 7 2021, 4:01 PM

Let's keep this task on hold for right now - tagging it as low, but would like to revisit once we have more data on the opt-outs from T269664: Determine opt-out rate for desktop improvements feature on test wikis pt 2

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Prioritization to Not ready to estimate on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.Jun 11 2021, 4:45 PM
ovasileva moved this task from Not ready to estimate to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived board.Jun 16 2021, 11:35 AM
Jdlrobson mentioned this in T285439: prefs-vector-enable-vector-1-help is broken if you delete default interwiki entries.Jun 25 2021, 3:09 PM
LGoto closed this task as Declined.Jul 13 2021, 9:55 PM
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