This task is about identifying the Wikipedias that will participate in the A/B test of the New Discussion Tool.
There are two parts to this task:
1. Identifying potential wikis for inclusion in the New Discussion Tool A/B test
2. Confirming with these wikis that they are comfortable participating in the New Discussion Tool A/B test
=== Selection requirements
The "Candidate wikis" below, collectively, met the following requirements:
1. There is a large enough number of people editing talk pages each month for the A/B test to reach "significance" in a relatively short amount of time
2. Wikis whose editors are likely to come from a variety of different locations
3. Wikis whose editors use a variety of languages and scripts to communicate
4. Wikis whose monthly talk page editors are comprised of significant numbers of Junior and Senior Contributors
5. The Reply Tool is already available as an opt-out feature
-- //See list: [Talk pages project/Replying#31 August 2021](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Replying#31_August_2021)
=== Candidate wikis
|ID|Wiki|Code|Link to on-wiki conversation|Status (e.g. participation confirmed)
|---|---|---|---|---
| 1. | Amharic Wikipedia | amwiki| |
| 2.| Bengali Wikipedia | bnwiki| |
| 3.| Chinese Wikipedia| zhwiki| |
| 4.| Dutch Wikipedia | nlwiki| |
| 5.| Egyptian Wikipedia| arzwiki| |
| 6. |French Wikipedia | frwiki| |
| 7.| Hebrew Wikipedia| hewiki| |
| 8.| Hindi Wikipedia | hiwiki| |
| 9.| Indonesia Wikipedia| idwiki| |
| 10. | Italian Wikipedia | itwiki| |
| 11. | Japanese Wikipedia| jawiki| |
| 12.| Korean Wikipedia | kowiki| |
| 13.| Oromo Wikipedia | omwiki| |
| 14. | Persian Wikipedia | fawiki| |
| 15.| Polish Wikipedia | plwiki| |
| 16.| Portuguese Wikipedia | ptwiki| |
| 17. | Spanish Wikipedia | eswiki| |
| 18.| Thai Wikipedia | thwiki| |
| 19.| Ukrainian Wikipedia| ukwiki| |
| 20.| Vietnamese Wikipedia| viwiki| |
//Note: you might notice this list is identical to the wikis that participated in the Reply Tool A/B test (T267379) with the following exception: the Afrikaans and Swahili Wikipedias are not included because the Reply Tool A/B test data [i] leads us to think there are not enough people using talk pages at these wikis to draw conclusions from the limited usage data. [ii]//
=== Done
- [ ] @Mneisler verifies the `===Candidate wikis` will produce a sufficient amount and diversity of usage data for us to draw conclusions from
- [ ] @Whatamidoing-WMF consults with the `===Candidate wikis` and documents the wikis that //are// and //are not// open to participating in the A/B test in this ticket
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i. See [Reply Tool AB Test Report](https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Reply-tools-analysis-2021/)
ii. T290204#7356556