Background

Displaying both Save and Watch as unlabeled icons within the toolbar could create considerable confusion for users, particularly since the Watch star icon is often interpreted as a “favourite” action. Moving Watch into the overflow menu on Minerva ensures the action is always accompanied by a label, helping clarify its purpose and better differentiate it from Save. As part of this work, Watchstar will be moved into the overflow menu on Talk pages to maintain a consistent location across views and ensure the action is always accompanied by a label for additional clarity. On Talk pages, we will show "subscribe" in the Star's place.

User story

As a Wikipedia user, I want the Save and Watch actions to be clearly distinguishable and consistently placed in the same location so that I can understand and access them without confusion.

Sequencing

• Updates to Minerva to support a primary subscribe action on a page (bookmark, watch or subscribe) depending on page type if found in the views (page actions) menu (reviewed by reader experience team)
• Update to DiscussionTools to promote subscribe https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools/+/1305232 (to be reviewed by editing team)

Requirements

• Ensure T426131: Update tools belt to accommodate watch and bookmark and update page tools to only show icons at lower resolutions is resolved first as it will simplify the solution here.

To IMPLEMENT: (For logged in users with the Reading List beta enabled)

• On Talk pages, show Subscribe function in place of Star on Talk pages (as shown in the design)
• On Talk pages, show Watch as the first option under the tools menu (as shown in the design)

For QA: (for logged in users with the Reading List beta enabled)

• Above all articles, you see the Save icon (as shown in the design)
• On article pages, Watch is the first option under the tools menu (as shown in the design)
• On Talk pages, you see Subscribe button in the toolbar (as shown in the design)
• On Talk pages, Watch is the first option under the tools menu (as shown in the design)

Mobile

Tablet

QA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Audre_Lorde

Communication

• Check with Eliza whether this needs a tech news entry

On user pages the contributions link will now appear first. This ensures the new primary action always appears in 2nd position and history, edit link in third and forth.