In the coming months, the Editing Team is planning for the Reply Tool, New Discussion Tool, and Topic Subscriptions to become available at all Wikimedia wikis by default.

As part of the Editing Team's effort to ensure the features above work in the ways volunteers value and expect, we will first make these three features available by default on desktop at mediawiki.org, in keeping with its purpose as a test wiki. [i]

Deployment date

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Requirements

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

1. People who are logged in or logged out
2. People accessing mediawiki.org using the desktop version of the site

People who meet the criteria below will see the Topic Subscriptions (read: [ subscribe ]) when visiting a talk page:

1. People who are logged in
2. People accessing mediawiki.org using the desktop version of the site

People who meet the criteria below will *NOT* see the Reply Tool ( read: [ reply ]), New Discussion Tool, or Topic Subscriptions (read: [ subscribe ]) when visiting a talk page:

1. People who have explicitly disabled the Enable quick replying, Enable quick topic adding, Enable topic subscription` settings within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing

Testing instructions

At mediawiki.org, do the following...

Logged in

1. Log in as an existing user
2. Visit a wiki-text based talk page (e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Usability)
3. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
4. Verify [ subscribe ] links are present next to each == H2 ==
5. Click a [ reply ] link
6. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
7. Click a [ subscribe ] link
8. Verify you have been subscribed to said section
9. Click the + link in the page "chrome"
10. Verify the New Discussion Tool opens

Logged out

1. Visit a wiki-text based talk page (e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Usability)
2. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
3. Verify [ subscribe ] links are NOT present next to each == H2 ==
4. Click a [ reply ] link
5. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
6. Click the + link in the page "chrome"
7. Verify the New Discussion Tool opens

New account

1. Log in as an existing user
2. Visit a wiki-text based talk page (e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Usability)
3. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
4. Verify [ subscribe ] links are present next to each == H2 ==
5. Click a [ reply ] link
6. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
7. Click a [ subscribe ] link
8. Verify you have been subscribed to said section
9. Click the + link in the page "chrome"
10. Verify the New Discussion Tool opens
11. Start a new discussion using the New Discussion Tool
12. Verify that upon starting said new discussion, you were automatically subscribed to said discussion

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i. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Group_0