[Config Change] Make new Reply affordance styling available at mediawiki.org
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	• ppelberg
	Jul 28 2022, 6:04 PM

Description

This task represents the work involved with deploying the config change necessary to make the new Reply affordance styling [i] available on desktop and mobile wikitext talk pages at mediawiki.org.

Deployment timing

This can be deployed as early as Monday, 1 August 2022

Requirements

Meta

Skins supported: All
Platforms: Mobile + Desktop
Wiki(s): mediawiki.org

Mobile [ reply ] links will be replaced by a new Reply button that appears:
- In a bold blue font
- Prepended with an arrow
- On a separate line from the comment' signature
Desktop [ reply ] links will be replaced by a new Reply button that appears:
- In a bold blue font

i. The new Reply styling was implemented in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools/+/785171/33..34 by way of T255560 and T309904

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	DiscussionTools: Make new reply buttons available at mediawiki.org	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+9 -0

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Open	None	T276497 Scale DiscussionTools to all projects
Open	None	T310959 Scale Usability Improvements to all projects
Open	None	T319146 [Release Ticket] Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at all projects (desktop)
Resolved	• ppelberg	T302547 [Usability Improvements] Deploy as Beta Feature at all wikis (desktop)
Open	None	T249579 [EPIC] Usability improvements: make the actions, activity and content within talk pages easier to understand
Resolved	• ppelberg	T304371 [Release ticket] Deploy Clear Affordances as Beta Feature at Partner Wikis
Resolved	Esanders	T314076 [Config Change] Make new Reply affordance styling available at mediawiki.org

Event Timeline

• ppelberg created this task.Jul 28 2022, 6:04 PM

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

• ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the DiscussionTools board.

• ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 819044 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] DiscussionTools: Make new reply buttons available at mediawiki.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/819044

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 1 2022, 12:16 PM

Esanders claimed this task.Aug 1 2022, 12:17 PM

Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)

Esanders moved this task from Ready to Be Worked On to Code Review on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

Scheduled: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20220801T2000

Change 819044 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] DiscussionTools: Make new reply buttons available at mediawiki.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/819044

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-08-01T20:47:15Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: c19c3e36ab: DiscussionTools: Make new reply buttons available at mediawiki.org (T314076); 24db016c4: viwikibooks: Change wgArticleCountMethod to any (T314239) (duration: 03m 10s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 1 2022, 9:30 PM

Note that this will only have an effect after the code for new reply buttons is deployed later this week (T255560).

✅ Desktop [ reply ] links will be replaced by a new Reply button

Ryasmeen edited projects, added Verified; removed Editing QA.Aug 8 2022, 6:13 PM

Ryasmeen moved this task from QA to Ready for Sign Off on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

• ppelberg closed this task as Resolved.Aug 8 2022, 10:17 PM

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