This task is about consulting with volunteers from across the Movement to learn what they think of the initial automatic topic subscription experience (T284836 + T262103).
Purpose
This particular consultation is intended to help us answer the following questions:
- Do Senior Contributors who have Automatic Topic Subscriptions enabled find it intuitive that they will receive notifications about new comments posted in discussions that they: A) Start and/or B) post a new comment in?
- Do Senior Contributors know how to adjust whether they are automatically subscribed to conversations they start and/or comment in?
- Do Senior Contributors think they have fine enough control over what causes them to become automatically subscribed to discussions?
- Do Senior Contributors know how to tell whether they are subscribed to a conversation or not?
- Do Senior Contributors understand what the [ subscribe ] and Add this page to your watchlist affordances do? Context: T290712#7353382.
Message
Call for feedback is being drafted here: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PPelberg_(WMF)/sandbox
Requirements
- Conversations are started at the ===Consultation wikis listed below that invite volunteers to try the automatic topic subscriptions prototype and share the feedback they have about it.
- Links to the conversations that have been started are posted in the ===Consultation wikis section below
- The issues volunteers surface in through testing are documented in ===Emergent issues
Consultation wikis
| Project name | Code | Link to conversation |
|---|---|---|
| Mediawiki.org | mw | Topic:Wjsb4j4p782n9plr |
| Russian Wikipedia | ru.wiki | https://w.wiki/43i8 |
| Polish Wikipedia | pl.wiki | https://w.wiki/43i9 |
| English Wikipedia | en.wiki | User_talk:Enterprisey/reply-link |
| English Wikipedia | en.wiki | [Wikipedia_talk:Talk_pages_project#Prototype:_Automatic_Topic_Subscriptions}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Talk_pages_project#Prototype:_Automatic_Topic_Subscriptions) |
Issues
| Description | Link(s) to feedback | Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Unexpected that you are not automatically re-subscribed to a section you previously unsubscribed from after commenting in it | Topic:Wjsd9nggwvzv3o9o, Topic:Wk7cqvino2vjv0jz | T295950 |
| Concern that people already using DiscussionTools will have difficulty discovering Automatic Topic Subscriptions | Topic:Wjtq6x364luwk5f0 | We will measure automatic vs. manual subscription initiation in T280896 |
| Introduce ability to set subscription preference within the Reply and New Discussion Tools' Advanced shelves | Topic:Wjtq6x364luwk5f0, Topic:Wk7cqvino2vjv0jz | T295087 |
| Pop-up can appear "behind" the page chrome | Topic:Wk7cqvino2vjv0jz | T295948 |
Open questions
- 1. Is automatic topic posting (T280199) needed for this test?
Done
- All ===Open questions are answered
- Messages inviting people to try the automatic subs prototype are posted at each of the ===Consultation wikis listed above
- Any and all issues that volunteers spot are documented in the === Issues above