This task is about enabling the relevant config flag(s) to make The Reply Tool available to contributors at the "Phase 3" wikis (listed below) as a Beta Feature.
=== Phase 3 wikis
//Source: [Talk pages project/Scaling](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pAalxkIzqgC60rVYjU7jQ9emMf6Qh9zFziX4ZaiI6Sw/edit#gid=0)//
We are defining "Phase 3" wikis as all Wikipedias **EXCEPT** the following:
- Phase 0 [i]
- Phase 1 [ii]
- Phase 2 [iii]
- English, Finnish, Gan, German, Inuktitut, Kazakh, Kurdish, Russian, Tajik, and Uzbek.
|**Column A**|**Column B**|**Column C**|**Column D**|**Column E**
|Wikipedia (unless otherwise noted)|Language code|Announcement URL|Pages to test whether `[ reply ]` links appear| Pages where you can test posting comments
|---|---|---|--- |---
=== Implementation details
- To use the Reply Tool, all logged in editors at the Wikipedias listed in the "Phase 3 wikis" section above, who **DO NOT** have the `Automatically enable most beta features` preference enabled, will need to do the following:
-- 1. Go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
-- 2. Locate the `Discussion tools` "beta feature"
-- 3. "Check" the checkbox to enable the `Discussion tools` "beta feature"
-- 4. Visit any talk page or talk-like page (e.g. a page where `__NEWSECTIONLINK__` is present), observe `[ reply ]` links are appended to each comment
- To use the Reply Tool, all logged in editors at the Wikipedias listed in the "Phase 2 wikis" section above, who **DO** have the `Automatically enable most beta features` preference enabled, will need to do the following:
-- 1. Visit any talk page or talk-like page (e.g. a page where `__NEWSECTIONLINK__` is present), observe `[ reply ]` links are appended to each comment
=== Deployment timing
Deployment is //scheduled// for this upcoming **Wednesday, 4-November-2020.**
=== Testing instructions
1. **Visit** Special:Preferences > Beta features (read: `mw-prefsection-betafeatures`) at each of the Wikipedias listed above and confirm `DiscussionTools` is available as a Beta feature
2. **Visit** the pages listed in the "Pages to test whether `[ reply ]` links appear" column above and file a task if `[ reply ]` links are NOT appearing where and/or how they should be
3. **Visit** the pages listed in the "Pages where you can test posting comments" column above and:
-- A) Document the text input mode – `source` or `visual` – is shown when a **logged in user** uses the Reply Tool for the //first time// on a given wiki
-- B) Document if the Reply Tool does NOT "remember" [i] the text input mode – `source` or `visual` – you used in your previous edit
-- C) File a task if you encounter cases where you are unable to post comments [ii] and/or if the Reply Tool behaves in any ways you deem to be unexpected
=== Text input mode behavior
|Wiki|Input mode shown by default (logged in)|Tool remembers last input mode used (y/n)
|---|---|---
=== Done
- [ ] The behavior described in the "Implementation" details section above is implemented
- [ ] QA has completed the steps described in the "Testing instructions" section
- [ ] QA has filed tickets for the new issues that surfaced while completing the steps described in the "Testing instructions" section
- [ ] QA has filled in the table in the "Text input mode behavior" section
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i. Phase 0 aka "Reply Tool partner wikis": Arabic, Dutch, Hungarian and French
ii. Phase 1: T251197
iii. Phase 2: T264693