This task is about making Automatic Topic Subscriptions available as an opt-in beta feature at the ===Initial Wikis listed below .

⚠️ Deployment timing

June 2, 2022

Remaining wikis

Requirements

At all wikis, listed in the ===Remaining wikis section above, Automatic Topic Subscriptions should be made available as a feature/setting within the Discussion tools beta feature.

Per T294398, for people to become automatically subscribed to discussions they start and/or comment within, they will need to manually enable the Automatically subscribe to topics setting within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing

Testing instructions

1. Visit any Wikipedia listed in the ===Remaining wikis section above
2. Visit Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
3. Verify the Automatically subscribe to topics setting is visible within the Discussion pages section
4. Verify the Automatically subscribe to topics setting is DISABLED
5. Enable the Automatically subscribe to topics setting
6. Visit a talk page
7. Start a new discussion
8. Verify the first-run experience pop-up (T262103) appears
9. Verify there is an [ unsubscribe ] affordance within the section heading of the discussion you just started

Open Questions

• Do we want to continue with this deployment considering the upcoming start of the Topic Subscriptions A/B test at these same wikis? See: T304029.

Yes

Done

• @ppelberg finalized Deployment timing
• @ppelberg finalized ticket scope
• Config change deployed
• QA verifies config change deployed as expected (see ===Testing instructions)