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Deploy config to make Reply Tool available as opt-out at phase 2 wikis
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Description

This task is about making the Reply Tool available as an opt-out feature at the ===Phase 2 Wikis listed below

⚠️ Deployment timing

Tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, 31 August during the "Morning Backport Window" (18:00 - 19:00 UTC).

Note: the deployment date will be finalized on Monday, 30 August. By this time, we expect the Parser Cache to be in a good place (T280599#7281173) and to have heard back from wikis about any potential issues they see with this deployment plan (T281533).

Phase 2 Wikis

Wikis were decided in T280388.

❗️Note: French Wikipedia has been excluded from this group as a precautionary measure to ensure the load placed being placed on Parser Cache does not increase too abruptly.

WikiCode
French Wikipediafrwiki
Spanish Wikipediaeswiki
Italian Wikipediaitwiki
Japanese Wikipediajawiki
Persian Wikipediafawiki
Polish Wikipediaplwiki
Hebrew Wikipediahewiki
Dutch Wikipedianlwiki
Hindi Wikipediahiwiki
Korean Wikipediakowiki
Vietnamese Wikipediaviwiki
Thai Wikipediathwiki
Portuguese Wikipediaptwiki
Bengali Wikipediabnwiki
Egyptian Wikipediaarzwiki
Swahili Wikipediaswwiki
Chinese Wikipediazhwiki
Ukrainian Wikipediaukwiki
Indonesia Wikipediaidwiki
Amharic Wikipediaamwiki
Oromo Wikipediaomwiki
Afrikaans Wikipediaafwiki

Requirements

People who meet the criteria below will see the Reply Tool ( read: [ reply ]) when visiting a talk page:

  1. People who are logged in or logged out
  2. People at any of the wikis listed in the ===Phase 2 Wikis section above

People who meet the criteria below will *NOT* see the Reply Tool ( read: [ reply ]) when visiting a talk page:

  1. People at any of the wikis listed in the ===Phase 2 Wikis section above
  2. People who have explicitly disabled the Enable quick replying setting within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing

Testing instructions

At 7 wikis of your choosing from the list above, do the following...
Logged in

  1. Log in as an existing user
  2. Visit a talk page
  3. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
  4. Click a [ reply ] link on the page of your choosing
  5. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
  6. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

Logged out

  1. Visit a talk page
  2. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
  3. Click a [ reply ] link on the page of your choosing
  4. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
  5. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

New account

  1. Create a new account
  2. Visit a talk page
  3. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
  4. Click a [ reply ] link on a page of your choosing
  5. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
  6. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

Done

  • @ppelberg finalized Deployment timing
  • All ===Requirements are met

Event Timeline

Adding tentative deployment date to task description.

Change 715574 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Offer the DiscussionTools reply tool as opt-out setting at 21 Wikipedias (\"phase 2\")

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/715574

Scheduled: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20210831T1100

(Note that this is an earlier time – at 11:00 UTC / 04:00 PDT. The usual "Morning" slot is not on the calendar for this day for some reason. I'm guessing this is fine, or I can reschedule it.)

Scheduled: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20210831T1100

(Note that this is an earlier time – at 11:00 UTC / 04:00 PDT. The usual "Morning" slot is not on the calendar for this day for some reason. I'm guessing this is fine, or I can reschedule it.)

Noted. Should the above need to change, I will comment on this ticket before I sign off today (30 August).

Change 715574 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Offer the DiscussionTools reply tool as opt-out setting at 21 Wikipedias (\"phase 2\")

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/715574

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-08-31T11:06:47Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: eb482e3fa88a87166b990fd9b87d0ccbbf971290: Offer the DiscussionTools reply tool as opt-out setting at 21 phase 2 Wikipedias (T288483) (duration: 00m 57s)

Ryasmeen added a subscriber: Ryasmeen.

Checked on 7 wikis: nl, ja, hi, ko, vi, bn and uk wiki. On all these wikis, Reply links were appearing correctly next to each comment on different talk pages and the Reply tool was loading upon clicking it. Also, for logged in, logged-out and new user accounts visual mode appeared to be the default mode for Reply tool.

Yesterday, I found Source mode showing up as the default mode for logged-out users on ko wiki. But, both me and @matmarex couldn't reproduce it today.

ppelberg claimed this task.

Yesterday, I found Source mode showing up as the default mode for logged-out users on ko wiki. But, both me and @matmarex couldn't reproduce it today.

Linking to the issue @Ryasmeen mentioned above: T290112.