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Enable DiscussionTools Usability Improvements on MediaWiki.org
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Per the discussion among Editing-team today, we'd like to enable the DiscussionTools Usability Improvements on MediaWiki.org for everyone by default. This will affect relatively few pages, as most discussions on the project use Flow. It will in particular affect https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Usability (the talk page about this very feature), which we want in order to make it easier to discuss the feature in vivo.

All other DiscussionTools feature are already enabled since T302256.

Event Timeline

Change 809011 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools visualenhancements at mediawikiwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/809011

Is this "everything" or "only visual enhancements"? It is particularly important to me that everyone has the [subscribe] button as well – ideally, [subscribe] would be set to automatic subscriptions for everyone, but you said that was already deployed. Is "visual enhancements" all that's left? What about mobile?

See also T310960: [Config Change] Make all DiscussionTools available by default at mediawiki.org.

Is this "everything" or "only visual enhancements"?

This is both "everything" and "only visual enhancements", because everything else is already enabled.

It is particularly important to me that everyone has the [subscribe] button as well

Already done in T302256 (except logged-out users, but we can't change it, it works like the watchlist or notifications)

– ideally, [subscribe] would be set to automatic subscriptions for everyone, but you said that was already deployed.

Automatic subscriptions are available but turned off for existing users, and only turned on for new users. I blame Peter for this: T302256#7807915

Is "visual enhancements" all that's left?

Yep

What about mobile?

Hmm, right now nothing would be available on mobile, because we have a separate config for it that overrides it. We haven't discussed this explicitly, but it seems to me like we'd want the mobile stuff enabled on mediawiki.org as well. I will add another patch for this.

See also T310960: [Config Change] Make all DiscussionTools available by default at mediawiki.org.

This is actually exactly the same as T310960, I forgot about that task. I will merge them.

This all sounds good to me. {{Thank you}}.