[Release Ticket] Offer support for automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces
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	Aug 30 2021, 10:57 PM

Description

This task tracks the work and steps involved with extending support for automatic topic subscriptions from DiscussionTools to all editing interfaces (see ===Editing interfaces below for definition).

Plan

Step #	Action	Purpose	Ticket(s)
1.	Introduce automatic subscriptions to DiscussionTools	1) Validate auto-subscribe actions – posting a new comment and starting a new topic – align with peoples' expectations and needs, 2) Validate the first-run experience appears at the right moment and is sufficiently informative, and 3) listen for demand for auto-subs to be extended to other interfaces	T284836, T262103, T282636
2.	Introduce automatic subscriptions to all editing interfaces	1) Provide volunteers greater access to, and flexibility with, using functionality they have come to value and depend on	T290778, T290779. Note: this step assumes this is sufficient demand for this to happen.

Editing interfaces

"All editing interfaces" in this context means all interfaces listed in the chart below...

Interface	Link	Step	Status
Reply Tool	Reply Tool	Step 1	✅ Done
New Discussion Tool	New Discussion Tool	Step 1	✅ Done
MobileFrontend wikitext editor	Extension:MobileFrontend	Step 2
WikiEditor	Extension:WikiEditor	Step 2
WikiEditor-based `section=new` interface	Extension:WikiEditor	Step 2
PageUpdater: Manual:PageUpdater.php	Manual:PageUpdater.php	Step 2

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T290041 [Release Ticket] Offer support for automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces
Open	None	T290778 [Config change] Enable automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces
Open	None	T290282 [SPIKE] What – if anything – needs to be done to ensure automatic topic subscriptions support the mentorship module?
Open	None	T290779 Design automatic topic subscription first-run experience (remaining interfaces)
Resolved	DLynch	T301933 Ensure bots are not automatically subscribed to discussions they comment in and/or start

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ppelberg created this task.Aug 30 2021, 10:57 PM

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ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to New Features on the DiscussionTools board.Aug 30 2021, 10:57 PM

ppelberg moved this task from Untriaged to This Fiscal Year on the Editing-team board.

• LZaman mentioned this in T282636: [Release Ticket] Offer Automatic Topic Subscriptions as Beta Feature at Initial Wikis.Sep 7 2021, 7:36 PM

The patches on T284836 now include support for both "steps" (DiscussionTools only, or all editing interfaces), controlled by a configuration option.

I'm not sure what's the scope of this task, but I think it could be merged into that task?

In T290041#7337621, @matmarex wrote:

I'm not sure what's the scope of this task, but I think it could be merged into that task?

This task is meant to help us track and plan when and how automatic topic subscriptions will be made available in all interfaces, as such I think it will be good to keep this open.

The patches on T284836 now include support for both "steps" (DiscussionTools only, or all editing interfaces), controlled by a configuration option.

With the above in mind, would it be accurate for me to think that all that's needed, from a technical perspective, to Introduce automatic subscriptions to all editing interfaces ("Step 2" in the ===Plan section above), is to deploy the config change you referenced in T290041#7337621?

Yeah. Okay, that makes sense.

In T290041#7337700, @matmarex wrote:

Yeah. Okay, that makes sense.

Great. I've now done two things:

CREATED T290778 for the work involved with writing and deploying the config change that is required to Introduce automatic subscriptions to all editing interfaces ("Step 2" in the ===Plan section above),
UPDATED the task description's ===Plan section to include the tickets required for each step based on the information you shared in T290041#7337700.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 10 2021, 11:08 PM

ppelberg mentioned this in T290779: Design automatic topic subscription first-run experience (remaining interfaces).Sep 10 2021, 11:22 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T290779: Design automatic topic subscription first-run experience (remaining interfaces).

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)

ppelberg moved this task from New Features to Existing Feature Improvements on the DiscussionTools board.Dec 22 2021, 8:10 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T301933: Ensure bots are not automatically subscribed to discussions they comment in and/or start.Feb 17 2022, 6:24 PM

ppelberg closed subtask T301933: Ensure bots are not automatically subscribed to discussions they comment in and/or start as Resolved.Feb 21 2022, 9:52 PM

matmarex mentioned this in T272146: Automatically ping newcomers when their question has been answered.Aug 19 2022, 3:39 AM

ppelberg renamed this task from Offer support for automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces to [Release Ticket] Offer support for automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces.Oct 28 2022, 10:19 PM

ppelberg added a project: TPP-Scaling.

ppelberg moved this task from Scaling Epics to Deployment Phases on the TPP-Scaling board.

ppelberg merged a task: T319201: Enable auto-subscriptions when using the full page editor.Nov 3 2022, 3:19 PM

ppelberg added a subscriber: Esanders.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 3 2022, 6:33 PM

The discussion beginning with, Dobrý den, děkuji Vám za informace v článku... on this newcomers' talk page demonstrates an instance where people who start new topics and post comments using the existing full-page editors could benefit from having access to automatic topic subscriptions.

Reason: without automatic topic subscriptions being abled in the full-page editing interfaces, cs:User:OJJ is unlikely to know that cs:User: Padlí Andělé responded to them.

Thank you to @KStoller-WMF and @Urbanecm_WMF for making me aware of this case.

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