Make the Reply and New Discussion Tools available as Beta Features at de.wiki
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	ppelberg
	Mar 4 2021, 7:19 PM

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This task is about offering the Reply and New Discussion Tools as OPT-IN Beta Features at de.wiki.

Deployment timing

The Reply and New Discussion Tools will be made available as opt-in Beta Features at de.wiki on TUESDAY, 23-MARCH

Test instructions

Visit: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
Verify the Discussion tools beta feature is available
"Check" the checkbox next to the Discussion tools beta feature to turn it on
Visit: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-editing
Verify the Discussion pages section is visible and the following settings are visible and "turned on" (read: checkboxes are "checked")
- Enable quick replying
- Enable quick topic adding
Visit a talk page and do the following:
- Verify [ reply ] links are visible
- Click a [ reply ] link and verify the Reply Tool opens
- Click the New section link and verify the New Discussion Tool opens
Visit: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-editing and "uncheck" the Discussion tools beta feature
Visit a talk page and do the following:
- Verify [ reply ] links are NOT visible
- Click the New section link and verify the existing workflow opens

Done

Test instructions are completed and any unexpected behavior that surfaces in the process is documented in Phabricator

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Enable DiscussionTools' beta features on dewiki	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -1

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T276497 Scale DiscussionTools to all projects
Open	None	T251207 [Epic] Scale DiscussionTools to all Wikipedias
Resolved	None	T259315 Deploy Reply Tool as Beta Features to all Wikipedias
Open	None	T233446 [Epic] New Discussion Tool
Resolved	None	T275256 Make New Topic Tool (desktop) available as opt-out feature at all wikis
Resolved	ppelberg	T275257 Offer New Discussion Tool as Beta Feature at all Wikipedias
Resolved	ppelberg	T273082 Offer Reply and New Discussion Tools as Beta Features at "Phase 4" Wikipedias.
Resolved	matmarex	T276494 Make the Reply and New Discussion Tools available as Beta Features at de.wiki
Resolved	• Whatamidoing-WMF	T275254 Consult with volunteers at de.wiki about offering the Reply Tool as a Beta Feature

Event Timeline

ppelberg created this task.Mar 4 2021, 7:19 PM

ppelberg mentioned this in T275827: Deploy config change to scale New Discussion Tool's availability as a beta feature.

ppelberg mentioned this in T275828: Make volunteers aware of New Discussion Tool's availability as beta feature.Mar 4 2021, 10:23 PM

matmarex added a subtask: T275254: Consult with volunteers at de.wiki about offering the Reply Tool as a Beta Feature.Mar 15 2021, 5:47 PM

Per the discussion at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Discussion_tools this is ready to be offered to the German-language Wikipedia as a default-OFF, opt-in-only Beta Feature as soon as it's convenient for the team.

• Whatamidoing-WMF closed subtask T275254: Consult with volunteers at de.wiki about offering the Reply Tool as a Beta Feature as Resolved.Mar 17 2021, 4:50 PM

ppelberg renamed this task from Make the Reply Tool available as a Beta Feature at de.wiki to Make the Reply and New Discussion Tools available as Beta Features at de.wiki.Mar 18 2021, 1:14 AM

In T276494#6922075, @Whatamidoing-WMF wrote:

Per the discussion at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Discussion_tools this is ready to be offered to the German-language Wikipedia as a default-OFF, opt-in-only Beta Feature as soon as it's convenient for the team.

Noted. Thank you, @Whatamidoing-WMF.

Provisional deployment date is set for this upcoming, Tuesday, 23-March-2021.

Note: this date needs to be confirmed with the engineering team before that date should be considered "final."

Change 674098 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools' beta features on dewiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/674098

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 22 2021, 6:06 PM

Scheduled for tomorrow morning: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20210323T1100

In T276494#6935692, @matmarex wrote:

Scheduled for tomorrow morning: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20210323T1100

Excellent, @matmarex. cc @Whatamidoing-WMF.

Change 674098 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools' beta features on dewiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/674098

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-03-23T11:30:25Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:674098|Enable DiscussionTools' beta features on dewiki (T276494)]] (duration: 00m 58s)