This task involves the work with ensuring the version of talk pages people see when they preview the changes they've made with non-DiscussionTools interfaces to talk pages matches the talk page they see when publishing the changes they've made.
=== Behavior
1. On desktop //or// mobile, visit a talk page on a wiki where Topic Containers are enabled. //E.g. https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/916be355b2/w/index.php?title=Talk:Frances_Perkins4 .//
2. Open the `source` editor
3. Make some changes
4. Preview the changes you made in "Step 3."
**Actual**
5. ❗️The preview appears as it does were Topic Containers NOT enabled (note the section headings and lack of metadata):
|Desktop preview|Mobile preview|
|---|---
|{F35183400}|{F35183398}
**Expected**
5. ✅ The preview appears as it does were Topic Containers enabled. //More details in `===Requirements` below.//
=== Requirements
- Editing Interface(s) (platforms): **2010 wikitext editor and 2017 wikitext editor** (mobile & desktop)
- Preview method(s): **existing "asynchronous" preview**, **[[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext | real-time preview ]]**, **[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Live_preview | live preview ]]**
-- Preview Contents
--- Show: Topic Container section title styling as it will appear on published page, discussion metadata (number of comments, number of people in discussion, time of last comment [1])
--- Do NOT show: interactive page components (read: {nav Subscribe} buttons/links, {nav Reply} buttons/links, section {nav [ edit ]} links (already done))
- Editing Interface(s) (platforms): **New Topic Tool** (mobile & desktop)
-- Preview Contents
--- Show: Topic Container discussion title styled as it will appear on published page, discussion "body" / "subject" styled as it will appear on published page
--- Do NOT show: interactive discussion components (read: {nav Subscribe} buttons/links, {nav Reply} buttons/links, section {nav [ edit ]} links (already done)), discussion metadata (number of comments, number of people in discussion, time of last comment
//1. Metadata shown in the preview should reflect the state of the discussion at the moment people click the necessary button to show the preview.//
=== Open questions
- [x] How – if at all – should metadata be presented within the preview?
-- Per today's team discussion, and the newly-created `===Requirements` section above, metadata **will** be presented within the preview
=== Done
- [x] Answers to all `===Open questions` are documented
- [ ] Expected behavior is implemented