ContentTranslation beta features auto-enrollment doesn't seem to work
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	Jan 25 2015, 4:34 PM

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I created an account on es.wiki - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Amire80-beta-auto-enroll-test-2015-01-25-01 .

I went to the beta tab in preferences, checked "auto-enroll" and saved.

I saw VisualEditor and VisualEditor language tool immediately enabled. The rest of the beta features were not.

When I tried going to Special:ContentTranslation, it didn't work, because it can only work if the beta feature is enabled.

@MarkTraceur told me that if auto-enroll is enabled, the beta feature is supposed to be enabled as soon as it's checked, but this doesn't seem to happen.

I am not sure whether it's an issue in the BetaFeatures extension itself or in the way that ContentTranslation uses it.

You can find the relevant ContentTranslation code here:

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Mentioned In: T236780: Reference Previews not part of "Automatically enable all new beta features"?
Mentioned Here: T64815: BetaFeatures: "Automatically enable ..." should actually automatically enable, not require visiting Special:Preferences

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Amire80 created this task.Jan 25 2015, 4:34 PM

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Amire80 added projects: BetaFeatures, ContentTranslation, ContentTranslation-Release4.

Amire80 added subscribers: Amire80, MarkTraceur, Jdforrester-WMF.

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KartikMistry subscribed.Jan 25 2015, 4:57 PM

The preference text itself says "Automatically enable all new beta features". Sure the meaning is ambiguous, but if it actually means only new beta features it could explain why Spanish has ~400 users with cx feature explicitly set to zero: that could be because they only enabled auto-enroll checkbox.

But why are some beta features treated differently? Only difference on quick look I can found is that CX does not have $wgDefaultUserOptions['cx'] while VE does.

Related to T64815?

• santhosh subscribed.Jan 28 2015, 8:27 PM

Arrbee raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Feb 2 2015, 8:09 AM

Arrbee moved this task from Needs Triage to Long term on the ContentTranslation board.

Arrbee lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Feb 2 2015, 9:30 AM

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Arrbee added a project: ContentTranslation-Release5.Mar 18 2015, 8:21 AM

Arrbee removed a project: ContentTranslation-Release4.

Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to Entry Points on the ContentTranslation-Release5 board.Mar 18 2015, 8:27 AM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Entry Points to Bugs on the ContentTranslation-Release5 board.Mar 18 2015, 8:50 AM

Arrbee moved this task from Long term to CX5 on the ContentTranslation board.Apr 20 2015, 6:06 AM

It still happens. VisualEditor is enabled immediately, even though I didn't ask for it, and it isn't a new feature. Other beta features are not enabled.

Added the VisualEditor project, because it looks like there's something in the VE code that forces the enabling more strongly than in other extensions ;)

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Jun 18 2015, 12:55 AM

Amire80 edited projects, added ContentTranslation-Release6; removed ContentTranslation-Release5.Jul 2 2015, 1:48 PM

Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Bugs on the ContentTranslation-Release6 board.

Amire80 moved this task from CX5 to CX6 on the ContentTranslation board.Jul 2 2015, 4:32 PM

Amire80 moved this task from CX6 to CX7 on the ContentTranslation board.Oct 2 2015, 2:45 PM

Amire80 moved this task from CX7 to CX6 on the ContentTranslation board.

Amire80 moved this task from CX6 to Upstream/Other teams on the ContentTranslation board.

Amire80 edited projects, added Essential-Work; removed ContentTranslation-Release6.Oct 14 2015, 9:06 AM

Amire80 lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Oct 14 2015, 9:10 AM

MarkTraceur unsubscribed.Jan 27 2017, 10:18 PM

awight mentioned this in T236780: Reference Previews not part of "Automatically enable all new beta features"?.Oct 30 2019, 8:40 AM

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