Publicize availability of topic subscriptions via URL parameter
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This ticket represents the work involved with making volunteers across the movement aware that they can experiment with topic subscriptions, via the ?dtenable=1 URL parameter.

Objectives

The objectives for informing volunteers about topic subscriptions being available at all projects via URL and them, ideally, experimenting with it as a result are as follows:

Learn whether there are "local exceptions"/cases where topic subscriptions work in unexpected ways
Identify whether topic subscriptions are working reliably enough to be offered as a beta feature at all Wikipedias

Done

Interested volunteers at Wikipedias across the movement are made aware they can experiment with topic subscriptions using the ?dtenable=1 URL parameter

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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	• ppelberg	T284489 Deploy topic subscriptions (desktop) as opt-out feature at all projects
Resolved	• ppelberg	T284490 Offer topic subscriptions as a Beta Feature at all projects
Resolved	• ppelberg	T287276 Offer manual topic subscriptions as Beta Feature at all projects
Resolved	• Whatamidoing-WMF	T286094 Publicize availability of topic subscriptions via URL parameter
Resolved	• ppelberg	T285796 Subscribe links appearing in main namespace unexpectedly
Resolved	matmarex	T284491 Make topic subscriptions available via URL parameter

Event Timeline

• ppelberg created this task.Jul 2 2021, 11:43 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Community Engagement on the Editing-team (Tracking) board.

• ppelberg added a subtask: T285796: Subscribe links appearing in main namespace unexpectedly.

• ppelberg added a subtask: T284491: Make topic subscriptions available via URL parameter.

• ppelberg edited parent tasks, added: T284490: Offer topic subscriptions as a Beta Feature at all projects; removed: T274833: [RELEASE TICKET] Enable topic subscriptions as opt-out at partner wikis.

• ppelberg closed subtask T284491: Make topic subscriptions available via URL parameter as Resolved.Jul 20 2021, 11:49 PM

• ppelberg closed subtask T285796: Subscribe links appearing in main namespace unexpectedly as Resolved.Jul 22 2021, 10:44 PM

@matmarex: would it be accurate for us to think that the only people who will continue to be impacted by T285796 [i] after today, will be the people who revisit a main namespace page where they previously noticed [ subscribe ] links unexpectedly appearing that has not been A) manually purged or B) edited since their last visit?

I ask this above wanting to know what – if any – guidance we should include about T285796 as part of the announcement we are making about topic subscriptions in this ticket.

i. Read: still see [ subscribe ] links on main namespace pages

It will be everyone who visits such a page (or almost everyone, depending on their user preferences), not just those who visited them before.

If we include any guidance about it (and I'm not sure if it's necessary), it should only be on the affected wikis (I think only Meta-Wiki and MediaWiki.org).

• ppelberg edited parent tasks, added: T287276: Offer manual topic subscriptions as Beta Feature at all projects; removed: T284490: Offer topic subscriptions as a Beta Feature at all projects.Jul 26 2021, 11:52 PM

This is going out in Tech/News on Monday.

I have also posted more information (and localized ?dtenable=1 links for testing) to Wikidata and Commons' central project pages.

• ppelberg closed this task as Resolved.Aug 11 2021, 12:54 AM

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