In case anyone wants to use this feature, you need to create your 'thing' (e.g., an endash, a non-breaking space) at the file name "MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix" on your wiki.

This user wants this functionality! At least give us the keyboard shortcuts.

Thanks for unbreaking this. Here's another diff that shows a fairly wide variety of unwanted "fixes": https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bybrunnen&diff=48094324&oldid=48093752

In T251197#6364782, @ppelberg wrote:

• @Whatamidoing-WMF, have volunteers at any of our Phase 1 wikis identified issues (software or otherwise) that should block the Reply Tool from being deployed as a Beta Feature?

In T92432#6351892, @Deskana wrote:

It is unacceptable for the visual editor to generate names that (a) frequently cause name conflicts

Can you give an example of this happening? I've never seen the visual editor do this.

In T92432#6363700, @Valereee wrote:

I'm just finding it so difficult to understand how anyone who adds sources to articles and uses Visual Editor to do it wouldn't be ridiculously frustrated by Vis Ed's manner of naming sources

do we have any sort of process on communicating en wiki stuff about citoid

I have to click the "Read" tab twice to get the 2017WTE to close, but the Reply widget does appear to still be there, with my comment still in it.

Look at https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Relations_Specialists/Audiences/Meetings_with_Product&diff=277117&oldid=271267&diffmode=source from June.

Is this the same as T250516: Reply tool doesn't always work on signatures from the {{unsigned}} or {{user link}} templates or T252058: Support timestamped signatures generated by "unsigned" templates that haven't been substituted?

I posted links to a lot of wikis, e.g.,

Yes, it's done.

Quick update: The software change has been "live" for about two weeks, and the plain-fancy-sig error has declined from 1000+ to ~850 since then. Since our lists are only people who have made an edit during the preceding 30 days, I think this is largely new editors rolling through the system. I'm therefore going to postpone individual messages until the software has been in place for a minimum of 30 days, so that we can minimize the number of messages being sent (and therefore reduce the risk of flooding anyone's watchlist).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools exists.
The /Beta_Features page has been replaced by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary @Shirayuki has fixed the translation system, and I think this task has reached a "good enough for now" state.

The text Note that you don't need to sign comments with this tool, your signature will be added automatically. is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice It needs to be split into two sentences:

@Dyolf77_WMF, would you please add a link to the discussion(s) you start, in the table at the top of this page? Thanks.

As a short-term fix, could we disable the : shortcut to blockquote tags as soon as possible? That's almost always the wrong answer on a talk page. We can live with whatever would happen if that shortcut had never been set up while we talk about the ideal outcome.

@AdHuikeshoven, I think https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools is going to be the long-term documentation for regular editors (think "end users" or "beginner's guide"). Please "Be bold" in adding/removing information until we have a good version.

It should add |alt= parameters, and everyone should (almost) always fill in the blank.

I don't think this happens very often "in the wild". NicoV has very kindly been keeping an eye out for this on frwiki, where the Reply tool has been used quite a lot, and he has found zero instances so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/July_2020 has been delivered

This is mostly finished.

@Mvolz, the citations are all ending up in {{cite web}}, even if they're books or journal articles. Can you fix that?

Yes, please! I'll send some general announcements as well, but the more, the merrier.

A steward or interface editor of small wikis cannot be obliged to create a local talk page in every visited project

@AntiCompositeNumber's signature-checking tool gives an error at https://signatures.toolforge.org/check/en.wikipedia.org/EEng The custom sig includes a link to a specific section on the user page. Will this be considered valid?

Instead of trying to make the interface clearer/change the user's behavior, I'd like to see it magically do the right thing. The nowiki'd ~~~~ should either not get nowiki'd in the first place, or it should be replaced (if it's at the end of the comment!) by a proper signature.

I think this is different from T255834: Citations can't be inserted in the 2017WTE

Every time you switch back and forth, an additional set of colons is inserted. Try it: Switch to Source (so you can see the first colons). Now click Visual and then Source again, and repeat that several times. Notice that you have a lot more colons now.

This content is being interpreted as a "complex transclusion". The explanation in T137942: Template + First paragraph treated like a complex transclusion might be relevant.

This is done, except that I'd like to add a basic timeline (e.g., will the software change reach the wikis next week, next month, next quarter?)

The actual result in Case 1 might have changed: https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overleg_Wikipedia:Universele_gedragscode&type=revision&diff=56535077&oldid=56534101

Has this changed? See https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overleg_Wikipedia:Universele_gedragscode&type=revision&diff=56535077&oldid=56534101 by @AdHuikeshoven. It appears to be replying on the basis of the first line's indentation, with weird results.

This behavior appears to have changed, with weird results in https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overleg_Wikipedia:Universele_gedragscode&type=revision&diff=56535077&oldid=56534101

This is happening in the Reply tool, too. See @Samat 's screenshots at https://imgur.com/a/w4Q7gPm

This doesn't happen in safemode, so the problem is almost certainly a user script or gadget.

I don't want "1B" (the "let's put templates on every wiki" approach).

Yes, that sounds about right to me.