[Config] Phase 1 deployment of usability improvements on pages using _NEWSECTIONLINK_
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	Nov 28 2023, 11:30 PM

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This task involves the work of writing and deploying the config patch needed to make the suite of usability improvements available on pages using __NEWSECTIONLINK__ for people who have usability enhancements enabled.

NOTE: this work was prioritized after receiving a series of requests via T350450 and T331635.

Deployment date

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

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Tech/News language

On 6 December 2023, people who have the Show discussion activity preference enabled will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Requirements

People impacted

People who have visual enhancements/usability improvements enabled either via the Discussion tool beta feature (which exposes the new preference as enabled by default), the A/B test on certain wikis (T302358), or by being on mobile where enhancements are always enabled)

Behavior

When "People" (see above) visit any page that meets all of the conditions below, they will see the full set of usability improvements enabled:
1. A __NEWSECTIONLINK__ marker is present within the wikitext of the page
2. The page does not exist in the article namespace (NS:0) EXCEPT for wikis where the article namespace is considered to be within the wgExtraSignatureNamespaces (as is the case on mediawiki.org)

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Enable DT visual enhancements on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -7
	DiscussionTools visual enhancements on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+0 -6

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T304750 Make Usability Improvements avail. on all discussion pages at all Wikimedia wikis
Open		None	T251653 [Epic] Enable DiscussionTools on pages not in a talk namespace
Resolved	BUG REPORT	None	T350450 No subscribe links for VillagePump / bar on mobile
Resolved		ppelberg	T331635 Enable topic containers and other visual enhancements on pages using __NEWSECTIONLINK__
Resolved		Esanders	T352232 [Config] Phase 1 deployment of usability improvements on pages using _NEWSECTIONLINK_

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ppelberg removed ppelberg as the assignee of this task.Nov 28 2023, 11:30 PM

ppelberg created this task.

ppelberg mentioned this in T331635: Enable topic containers and other visual enhancements on pages using __NEWSECTIONLINK__.

JJMC89 removed projects: MoveComms-Support (Oct-Dec-2023), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.1; 2023-03-20).Nov 29 2023, 12:09 AM

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ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 29 2023, 1:15 AM

on wikis where usability improvements are already enabled.

Does this mean wikis where visual enhancements are available (either directly or by being an A/B test wiki), or also wikis where visual enhancements are default, i.e. all wikis? If the latter, you could rephrase the above phrase as

on all wikis.

for users who have usability enhancements enabled.

Thanks, done.

Change 978531 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DT visual enhancements on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/978531

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 29 2023, 1:11 PM

ppelberg assigned this task to Esanders.Nov 29 2023, 5:03 PM

ppelberg moved this task from Incoming to Doing on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 29 2023, 5:15 PM

In T352232#9367016, @Esanders wrote:

Thanks, done.

Thanks!

Draft language for Tech/News below. @Quiddity, please let me know if you think anything about the above could be made more clear/easier to understand...

On 6 December 2023, people who have the Show discussion activity preference enabled will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

@ppelberg It looks like this also requires users to have opted-in to the Beta Feature of "Discussion tools" (or all Beta Features) in order to see that preference. Therefore I've added that nuance, and the rest of your suggestion, into https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/49 - please edit boldly for the next ~18 hours, after which the first translations will start to arrive

Quiddity moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Nov 30 2023, 2:13 AM

In T352232#9369341, @Quiddity wrote:

@ppelberg It looks like this also requires users to have opted-in to the Beta Feature of "Discussion tools" (or all Beta Features) in order to see that preference. Therefore I've added that nuance, and the rest of your suggestion, into https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/49 - please edit boldly for the next ~18 hours, after which the first translations will start to arrive

Thank you, @Quiddity. I edited the draft; see rationale below (copied from edit summary):

Removing the "Beta feature" qualifier. Reasons: on some wikis (e.g. those that participated in the A/B test (phab:T302358)) the features are already enabled and on mobile, these features are already enabled independent of whether people have the DT beta feature enabled or not.

ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the DiscussionTools board.Nov 30 2023, 4:08 PM

ppelberg mentioned this in T350450: No subscribe links for VillagePump / bar on mobile.Nov 30 2023, 4:32 PM

Change 971465 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] DiscussionTools visual enhancements on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/971465

Change 971465 abandoned by DLynch:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] DiscussionTools visual enhancements on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__

Reason:

Ed's patch is more comprehensive

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/971465

Change 978531 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DT visual enhancements on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/978531

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-12-06T21:09:45Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:978531|Enable DT visual enhancements on pages with NEWSECTIONLINK (T352232)]]

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 6 2023, 9:10 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-12-06T21:11:03Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm and esanders: Backport for [[gerrit:978531|Enable DT visual enhancements on pages with NEWSECTIONLINK (T352232)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

DLynch moved this task from Doing to QA on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Dec 6 2023, 9:19 PM

DLynch added a project: Editing QA.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-12-06T21:20:28Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:978531|Enable DT visual enhancements on pages with NEWSECTIONLINK (T352232)]] (duration: 10m 43s)

Esanders closed this task as Resolved.Dec 7 2023, 12:19 PM

Quiddity moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Dec 7 2023, 9:30 PM

Maintenance_bot edited projects, added User-notice-archive; removed User-notice.Dec 17 2023, 9:30 PM

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