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Make New Discussion Tool and Reply Tool available as Beta Features at all sister projects
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Description

This task is about offering the Reply and New Discussion Tools as opt-in Beta Features at all non-Wikipedia Wikimedia projects.

Deployment timing

The Reply and New Discussion Tools will be made available as opt-in Beta Features at all non-Wikipedia Wikimedia projects. on TUESDAY, 16-MARCH.

Testing instructions

At Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/), English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page) and Japanese Wikibooks (https://w.wiki/36Qh) do the following:

  1. Verify the Discussion tools beta feature is available
  2. "Check" the checkbox next to the Discussion tools beta feature to turn it on
  3. Visit: https://w.wiki/35pn
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and "uncheck" the Discussion tools beta feature
  7. 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

Event Timeline

Change 672509 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools' beta features on almost all remaining projects

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/672509

Sounds good. Added details (read: deployment timing and testing instructions) to the task description.

Change 672509 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools' beta features on almost all remaining projects

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/672509

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-03-16T11:22:51Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: c444517: 4e66529: dff200b: Enable DiscussionTools features on several projects (T276493; T276498; T277103) (duration: 00m 57s)