This task is about making manual topic subscriptions available as a beta feature at the ===Phase 3 wikis listed below

Deployment timing

Tuesday, 19 October

Phase 3 wikis

via T286096.

Requirements

For people at the partner wikis above who have the Discussion tools beta feature enabled, they will see the following:

1. In Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures: the Discussion tools beta feature should contain a list item that reads: Receive notifications when new comments are added in sections you have subscribed to.
2. In Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing: a new setting within the Discussion pages section that contains a setting titled Enable topic subscription and this setting should be enabled by default
3. On a talk page with at least one ==H2==, a [ subscribe ] affordance should appear next to it

Minimum test case

At each of the wikis listed beneath Wikis to test on, complete the Test instructions.

Wikis to test on

1. English Wikipedia (en.wiki)
2. Italian Wikibooks (it.wikibooks)
3. Afrikaans Wikitionary (af.wiktionary)
4. Russian Wikiquotes (ru.wikiquote)

Test instructions

1. Visit Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeaturesand verify the Discussion tools beta feature contains a list item that reads: Receive notifications when new comments are added in sections you have subscribed to.
2. Visit Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and verify a new setting appears within the Discussion pages section titled Enable topic subscription and this setting should be enabled by default
3. Visit a talk page and verify [ subscribe ] affordances appear next to each ==H2==

Done

• All ===Requirements are met
• All issues encountered during testing are documented