[Config Change] Enable the New Topic Tool as opt-out at A/B test wikis
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	• ppelberg
	May 3 2022, 12:38 AM

Description

This task represents the work with enabling the New Topic Tool as an opt-out feature on desktop at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the recent A/B test (T277825).

Deployment Timing

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Requirements

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:
- People who are logged in or logged out
- People accessing any of the wikis listed below using the desktop version of the site:
  - Amharic
  - Bengali
  - Chinese
  - Dutch
  - Egyptian
  - French
  - Hebrew
  - Hindi
  - Indonesia
  - Italian
  - Japanese
  - Korean
  - Oromo
  - Persian
  - Polish
  - Portuguese
  - Spanish
  - Thai
  - Ukrainian
  - Vietnamese

Testing instructions

At 5 wikis of your choosing from those listed above, visit a talk page as an existing user, a new user, a logged out user, and:

Click the Add topic / New section button
Verify the New Topic Tool appears
Document what mode –Source or Visual – you saw in "Step 2."

Existing Users

wiki	Existing Users	New Users	Logged Out Users
Bengali Wikipedia	Visual	Visual	Visual
Hebrew Wikipedia	Source	Source	Source
Japanese Wikipedia	Visual	Visual	Visual
Persian Wikipedia	Visual	Visual	Visual
Ukrainian Wikipedia	Visual	Visual	Visual

Done

===Requirements above are met

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Release DiscussionTools new topic tool to former a/b test wikis	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+21 -0

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Resolved		• ppelberg	T280897 Run A/B test to evaluate impact of topic subscriptions
Resolved		MNeisler	T304029 Make config change to start Topic Subscriptions A/B Test
Resolved		matmarex	T295425 [Config Change] Deploy Automatic Topic Subscriptions as Beta Feature at Remaining Wikis
Resolved		matmarex	T315714 [Config change] Offer Topic Subscriptions (desktop) as opt-out feature at all projects
Open		None	T233446 [Epic] New Discussion Tool
Open		None	T275256 Make New Topic Tool (desktop) available as opt-out feature at all wikis
Resolved		• ppelberg	T290517 [Release Ticket] Introduce New Topic Tool (desktop) as opt-out at A/B test wikis
Resolved		DLynch	T307410 [Config Change] Enable the New Topic Tool as opt-out at A/B test wikis

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• ppelberg created this task.May 3 2022, 12:38 AM

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• ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)May 6 2022, 11:37 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Incoming to Ready to Be Worked On on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

• ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 790395 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Release DiscussionTools new topic tool to former a/b test wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/790395

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 9 2022, 3:51 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Ready to Be Worked On to Code Review on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.May 9 2022, 4:58 PM

matmarex assigned this task to DLynch.May 9 2022, 5:20 PM

matmarex moved this task from Code Review to Doing on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

Change 790395 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Release DiscussionTools new topic tool to former a/b test wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/790395

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-05-11T20:05:28Z] <cjming@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:790395|Release DiscussionTools new topic tool to former a/b test wikis (T307410)]] (duration: 00m 54s)

DLynch moved this task from Doing to QA on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.May 11 2022, 10:45 PM

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Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 11 2022, 11:30 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Inbox to High Priority on the Editing QA board.May 17 2022, 12:39 AM

EAkinloose updated the task description. (Show Details)May 17 2022, 7:53 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the DiscussionTools board.May 19 2022, 3:27 PM

EAkinloose updated the task description. (Show Details)May 23 2022, 12:02 AM

EAkinloose updated the task description. (Show Details)May 26 2022, 11:00 PM

EAkinloose edited projects, added Verified; removed Editing QA.

I have updated the description to reflect my findings on 5 wikis.

EAkinloose moved this task from QA to Ready for Sign Off on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.May 26 2022, 11:03 PM

In T307410#7962112, @EAkinloose wrote:

I have updated the description to reflect my findings on 5 wikis.

Excellent – thank you, @EAkinloose

• ppelberg closed this task as Resolved.May 27 2022, 1:03 AM

• ppelberg mentioned this in T287804: Create deployment plan for scaling New Topic Tool as opt-out at all projects.May 27 2022, 1:24 AM

• ppelberg mentioned this in T310392: [Config Change] Enable New Topic Tool as opt-out at Phase 4 wikis (desktop).Jun 10 2022, 7:27 PM

• ppelberg mentioned this in T275256: Make New Topic Tool (desktop) available as opt-out feature at all wikis.Jul 25 2022, 3:51 AM

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