This task involves the work of sharing the findings from the A/B test the Editing Team ran to evaluate the impact of the suite of talk page design changes (desktop) with volunteers at small-to-medium sized wikis and learn what – if anything – concerns them about the deployment we're proposing (see "Proposal" below).

Learning objectives

• 1. What – if any – questions/concerns does the proposal bring to mind for volunteers at each of the wikis that participated in the A/B test?

Message

Information to share

1. The A/B test wikis agreed to participate in [ii] has concluded
2. The findings are available for people to review [iii]
3. What conclusions the team is drawing from this test [iv]
4. What the team is proposing to do as a result (see === Proposal below)
5. Where/how these features have already been enabled. //See mw:Talk_pages_project/Deployment_Status...

Draft
This section will eventually include the announcement we'll translate and share with volunteers at each of the wikis listed below.

Proposal

1. For everyone (logged in and out) who has NOT explicitly disabled the Show discussion activity setting within Special:Preferences viewing a desktop Article or User talk page, show them the version of talk pages where the suite of Usability Improvements are enabled
   • Note: for a detailed explanation of what "suite of Usability Improvements" means in this context, review the "UX Changes" section of T329407.
2. For anyone who is logged in that comes to prefer the legacy desktop talk page experience, they can disable the changes at any point by "unchecking" the Show discussion activity setting within Special:Preferences

Announcement tracking + timing

Timing
We will ask volunteers to have the conversation in the 2 weeks that follow us posting.

Tracking

i. T332946
ii. T302358 + mw:Talk pages project/Usability/Analysis
iii. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#Findings
iv. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#Conclusion