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Remove the "Share feedback about this feature" link for non-WMF wikis
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At the bottom of the reply and new topic tools, there is a link to "Share feedback about this feature":

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We should remove this link before the MediaWiki 1.40 release (expected to come out in May 2023), which will include DiscussionTools (T290464#8222955). In the past such links in various products resulted in mostly useless feedback (T188729, T209336).

We may also want to remove this link on Wikimedia wikis, since the tools are out of beta (almost) everywhere.

If we remove it everywhere, we can just remove the code. If we keep it, we'll need to introduce a config setting or something.

Event Timeline

Change 853991 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Keep DiscussionTools "Share feedback..." links on WMF wikis for now

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/853991

Change 853992 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Disable "Share feedback..." links by default

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/853992

The second patch disables the feature in MediaWiki by default, and the first patch re-enables it on all WMF wikis for now.

Change 853991 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Keep DiscussionTools "Share feedback..." links on WMF wikis for now

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/853991

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-11-08T21:19:23Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:853991|Keep DiscussionTools "Share feedback..." links on WMF wikis for now (T322494)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-11-08T21:23:37Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:853991|Keep DiscussionTools "Share feedback..." links on WMF wikis for now (T322494)]] (duration: 04m 14s)

Change 853992 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Disable "Share feedback..." links by default

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/853992

matmarex renamed this task from Remove the "Share feedback about this feature" link to Remove the "Share feedback about this feature" link for non-WMF wikis.Nov 8 2022, 10:41 PM
matmarex assigned this task to Esanders.
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