This task is about making the Reply and New Topic Tools available as opt-out features on desktop at the Russian Wikipedia (ru.wiki).

⚠️ Deployment timing

17 August 2022

Requirements

Reply Tool

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 accessing Russian wikipedia using the desktop version of Wikipedia

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

1. People who have explicitly disabled the Enable quick replying setting within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing

New Topic Tool

People who meet the criteria below will see the New Topic Tool upon clicking an Add topic / New section link on a page where DiscussionTools are available:

1. People who are logged in or logged out
2. People accessing Russian wikipedia using the desktop version of Wikipedia

Testing instructions

At ru.wiki, 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
7. Click the Add topic / New section link
8. Verify the New Topic Tool opens as expected
9. 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
6. Click the Add topic / New section link
7. Verify the New Topic Tool opens as expected
8. 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
7. Click the Add topic / New section link
8. Verify the New Topic Tool opens as expected
9. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

Wikis to test

Wiki	Default input: Logged IN	Default input: Logged OUT	Default input: NEW ACCOUNT
ru.wiki	visual	visual {F35486280} {F35486284}	visual

Done

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