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:
- Verify the Discussion tools beta feature is available
- "Check" the checkbox next to the Discussion tools beta feature to turn it on
- Visit: https://w.wiki/35pn
- 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#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