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BetaFeatures: "Automatically enable ..." not working
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The "Automatically enable all new beta features" box isn't working.

When the BetaFeatures product was first released, there were 4 items available.[1] The additional item "Nearby Pages" has been added since then, but was not automatically enabled in our preferences.

  1. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/07/introducing-beta-features/

Filing on behalf of this thread: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features#.22Automatically_enable_all_new_beta_features.22_not_working_.28.3F.29

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60747

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 3:04 AM
• bzimport added a project: BetaFeatures.
• bzimport set Reference to bz60748.
Quiddity created this task.Feb 2 2014, 8:02 PM
Quiddity added a comment.Feb 5 2014, 10:11 PM

Confirmed - the "New search" BetaFeature was recently added to the options at Enwiki, but not enabled for me, despite having "Automatically enable..." checked.

Quiddity added a comment.Feb 15 2014, 7:19 PM

Setting priority and upgrading importance. HTH.

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 4 2014, 6:00 AM

Change 116721 had a related patch set uploaded by Legoktm:
Fix typo when getting auto-enroll preference setting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116721

Legoktm added a comment.Mar 4 2014, 6:02 AM

Patch fixes the typo which was making this not work.

However, the current code will only enable the new betafeatures when the user visits Special:Preferences, or whenever the 'GetPreferences' hook is run (API's action=options I think). Is that acceptable from a UX point of view?

Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Mar 19 2014, 1:36 AM

(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #4)

Patch fixes the typo which was making this not work.

Yay. Marking as FIXED.

However, the current code will only enable the new betafeatures when the
user visits Special:Preferences, or whenever the 'GetPreferences' hook is
run (API's action=options I think). Is that acceptable from a UX point of
view?

No. Created bug 62815 for that, which is distinct from this issue.

Legoktm added a comment.Mar 19 2014, 5:01 AM

(In reply to James Forrester from comment #5)

(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #4)

Patch fixes the typo which was making this not work.

Yay. Marking as FIXED.

Patch hasn't been merged yet :/

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 20 2014, 1:52 AM

Change 116721 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix typo when getting auto-enroll preference setting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116721

Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Mar 20 2014, 1:54 AM

(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #6)

(In reply to James Forrester from comment #5)

(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #4)

Patch fixes the typo which was making this not work.

Yay. Marking as FIXED.

Patch hasn't been merged yet :/

Sorry, thought I'd +2'ed but apparently not.

Quiddity mentioned this in T64815: BetaFeatures: "Automatically enable ..." should actually automatically enable, not require visiting Special:Preferences.Jun 14 2015, 7:12 PM
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