[EPIC] Empower developers to create new and improve existing experiences using DiscussionTools
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	• ppelberg
	Sep 1 2021, 5:46 PM

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The Reply Tool, the New Discussion Tool, Topic Subscriptions and Usability Improvements, depend on a common foundation of underlying technology the Editing Team has written.

This parent task represents the work with generalizing this "underlying technology" so that other developers can leverage it to create new, and improve existing, experiences.

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Functionality	Example	Task
In-line replying	Introducing in-line replying to the Android App	T285971
Topic subscriptions	Enabling gadgets and other platforms to offer topic subscriptions (see:T284836#7306168)	T290185
Structured data about talk page activity	Wikimedia Enterprise thinks customers could value being able to surface answers to questions about aggregated activity like, "What articles have been discussed most on __.wiki in the past day/week/month etc.?" "What topics are being discussed most at __.wiki in the past day/week/month/etc.?"

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T290186 [EPIC] Empower developers to create new and improve existing experiences using DiscussionTools
Resolved		• MattCleinman	T285971 Update Talk API to support in-line replying on Android
Resolved		• ppelberg	T290185 API to get the status of topic subscriptions on a page (action=discussiontoolsgetsubscriptions)
Open		None	T295648 Provide API that exposes DiscussionTools data structure
Resolved		Dbrant	T296018 Android team cannot associate a talk page notification with a specific section anymore
Open		None	T272146 Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered
Resolved		Urbanecm_WMF	T343339 Mark discussiontoolsedit as stable for external users
Open		None	T295392 [Proof of Concept] Build an embeddable topic list
Resolved		matmarex	T296801 Introduce a data structure for tracking talk page comments
Resolved		matmarex	T303295 DBA review: data structure for storing permalinks
Open	Feature	None	T265981 Provide an API to hook into new reply editor
Open		None	T355555 Cleanup and extend the VE hooks system
Open		None	T300995 Empower developers to add new discussion-level actions to topic containers
Open		None	T304578 Enable iOS and Android apps to implement talk page topic and comment permalinking
Resolved		• ppelberg	T302012 Define URL schema for talk page comment and discussion URLs
Resolved		matmarex	T304595 Truncate timestamps in comment IDs / names

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• ppelberg created this task.Sep 1 2021, 5:46 PM

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• ppelberg added subtasks: T285971: Update Talk API to support in-line replying on Android, T290185: API to get the status of topic subscriptions on a page (action=discussiontoolsgetsubscriptions).Sep 1 2021, 5:46 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Untriaged to Larger Strategic Things on the Editing-team board.

• ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Strategic Initiatives on the DiscussionTools board.

Jack_who_built_the_house renamed this task from Empower developers to create and new and improve existing experiences using DiscussionTools to Empower developers to create new and improve existing experiences using DiscussionTools.Sep 2 2021, 9:24 AM

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• ppelberg closed subtask T290185: API to get the status of topic subscriptions on a page (action=discussiontoolsgetsubscriptions) as Resolved.Sep 22 2021, 5:39 PM

• ppelberg added a subtask: T295648: Provide API that exposes DiscussionTools data structure.Nov 18 2021, 4:07 PM

• ppelberg added a subtask: T296018: Android team cannot associate a talk page notification with a specific section anymore.Nov 19 2021, 5:17 AM

• ppelberg added a subtask: T272146: Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered.Nov 24 2021, 6:39 PM

• ppelberg added a subtask: T295392: [Proof of Concept] Build an embeddable topic list.Dec 16 2021, 5:34 PM

• ppelberg added a subtask: T265981: Provide an API to hook into new reply editor.Dec 22 2021, 4:30 PM

Sakretsu subscribed.Jan 28 2022, 10:27 PM

• ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 1 2022, 7:05 PM

• ppelberg renamed this task from Empower developers to create new and improve existing experiences using DiscussionTools to [EPIC] Empower developers to create new and improve existing experiences using DiscussionTools.Feb 4 2022, 6:20 PM

cooltey closed subtask T296018: Android team cannot associate a talk page notification with a specific section anymore as Resolved.Feb 7 2022, 8:19 PM

• ppelberg mentioned this in T300316: <Product Initiative> Structured talk APIs.Feb 8 2022, 8:28 PM

• ppelberg removed a subtask: T296801: Introduce a data structure for tracking talk page comments.Feb 17 2022, 5:12 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Larger Strategic Things to Scaling features on the Editing-team board.Apr 5 2022, 12:14 AM

• ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team (Scaling features); removed Editing-team.

• ppelberg closed subtask T285971: Update Talk API to support in-line replying on Android as Resolved.Apr 11 2022, 5:14 PM

VPuffetMichel moved this task from Scaling features to Upcoming on the Editing-team board.Jun 6 2022, 6:45 PM

VPuffetMichel edited projects, added Editing-team; removed Editing-team (Scaling features).

KStoller-WMF closed subtask T272146: Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered as Resolved.Aug 18 2022, 2:58 PM

Urbanecm_WMF reopened subtask T272146: Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered as Open.Aug 19 2022, 10:01 AM

Frostly subscribed.Dec 8 2023, 7:53 PM