This task is about consulting with volunteers from across the Movement to learn what they think of the initial automatic topic subscription experience (T284836 T262103).
Purpose
This particular consultation is intended to help us answer the following questions:
- Do Senior Contributors who have Automatic Topic Subscriptions enabled find it intuitive that they will receive notifications about new comments posted in discussions that they: A) Start and/or B) post a new comment in?
- Do Senior Contributors know how to adjust whether they are automatically subscribed to conversations they start and/or comment in?
- Do Senior Contributors think they have fine enough control over what causes them to become automatically subscribed to discussions?
- Do Senior Contributors know how to tell whether they are subscribed to a conversation or not?
- Do Senior Contributors understand what the [ subscribe ] and Add this page to your watchlist affordances do? Context: T290712#7353382.
Message
Call for feedback is being drafted here: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PPelberg_(WMF)/sandbox
Requirements
- Conversations are started at the ===Consultation wikis listed below that invite volunteers to try the automatic topic subscriptions prototype and share the feedback they have about it.
- Links to the conversations that have been started are posted in the ===Consultation wikis section below
- The issues volunteers surface in through testing are documented in ===Emergent issues
Consultation wikis
| Project name | Code | Link to conversation |
|---|---|---|
| Mediawiki.org | mw | Topic:Wjsb4j4p782n9plr |
| Russian Wikipedia | ru.wiki | https://w.wiki/43i8 |
| Polish Wikipedia | pl.wiki | https://w.wiki/43i9 |
| English Wikipedia | en.wiki | User_talk:Enterprisey/reply-link |
| English Wikipedia | en.wiki | [Wikipedia_talk:Talk_pages_project#Prototype:_Automatic_Topic_Subscriptions}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Talk_pages_project#Prototype:_Automatic_Topic_Subscriptions) |
Issues
| Description | Link(s) to feedback | Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Unexpected that you are not automatically re-subscribed to a section you previously unsubscribed from after commenting in it | Topic:Wjsd9nggwvzv3o9o, Topic:Wk7cqvino2vjv0jz | T295950 |
| Concern that people already using DiscussionTools will have difficulty discovering Automatic Topic Subscriptions | Topic:Wjtq6x364luwk5f0 | We will measure automatic vs. manual subscription initiation in T280896 |
| Introduce ability to set subscription preference within the Reply and New Discussion Tools' Advanced shelves | Topic:Wjtq6x364luwk5f0, Topic:Wk7cqvino2vjv0jz | T295087 |
| Pop-up can appear "behind" the page chrome | Topic:Wk7cqvino2vjv0jz | T298638 |
Open questions
- 1. Is automatic topic posting (T280199) needed for this test?
Done
- All ===Open questions are answered
- Messages inviting people to try the automatic subs prototype are posted at each of the ===Consultation wikis listed above
- Any and all issues that volunteers spot are documented in the === Issues above