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matmarex
May 28 2024, 5:09 PM
2024-05-28 17:09:47 (UTC+0)
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Description
Comment thanking has been implemented in
T249893
, it's currently only deployed on the beta cluster.
It can be tested on the beta cluster:
Deployment sequence
Phase
Wikis
Deployment date
Notes
Phase 0
testwiki, pt.wiki
29 July 2025
Wikis where the
•••
menu is already available by way of the Incident Reporting System
Phase 1
All wikis that have usability improvements enabled (
T379264
15 October 2025
Remaining wikis
n/a
Unless we explicitly disable the feature on a wiki, this will happen automatically when we enable usability improvements on remaining wikis
Tech/News
Phase 1: 15 October 2025
This week, volunteers at wikis where talk page
Usability Improvements
are already available by default (read: everywhere
except
wikis listed in
T379264
) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
Feature overview
Quick summary of how thanking works with this deployment (via
@DLynch
in
T366095#10865103
)...
See a comment you want to thank
•••
overflow menu appears next to the reply button on a DT page
It contains a
🖤 Thank
item, which you click
The user who wrote the thanked comment is sent a notification saying that the comment was thanked, which includes the thanking user, the talk page section, and the comment id
The public thanks log will now include an item saying that User1 thanked User2, but not giving any details about what exactly was thanked
Before this deployment, the only way to thank someone for making a comment would be:
See a comment you want to thank
Look at the revision history for that talk page
Find the revision that created the specific comment you care about, presumably by looking based on the timestamp in the signature <-- this is the painful bit
Use the "thank" tool in the history item
The user who wrote the thanked comment is sent a notification saying that the revision they made was thanked, which includes the thanking user and a link to the diff
The public thanks log will now include an item saying that User1 thanked User2, but not giving any details about what exactly was thanked
There's no exposure either way of exactly what was thanked, so although the comment you're thanking in the new method isn't immutable like a revision there's not any particular way to edit your comment to make it look like your thanker is endorsing something they didn't mean to. (We might want to be mindful about this in the future if enhancements were ever made to the thanks log, because there's enough data stored that we could decide to link from there to the revisions / comments that were thanked...)
🗄️ Archive
Tech/News: Phase 0
This week, volunteers using testwiki and pt.wiki with the
Show discussion activity
preference
enabled
will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
Details
Other Assignee
Quiddity
Related Changes in Gerrit:
Subject
Repo
Branch
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DiscussionTools: enable thanking comments
operations/mediawiki-config
master
+0
-9
Enable DiscussionTools thanks on existing "report incident" wikis
operations/mediawiki-config
master
+3
-0
Customize query in gerrit
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T307845
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Publish Usability Improvements design approach on mediawiki.org
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Design CentralNotice banner for Usability Improvements design feedback
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T301596
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T301597
Localize UsabilityImprovements mediawiki prototype page
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T302120
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T302681
Populate Topic Container patchdemo prototype with Arabic strings for UI Elements
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T302682
Populate Topic Container patchdemo prototype with example ar.wiki talk pages
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T303561
Translate Talk pages project/Usability/Prototype/Topic Containers into Arabic
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T303562
Translate Topic Container CentralNotice campaign banner into Arabic
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Esanders
T301139
Create Topic Container Prototype (desktop)
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T302121
[Partner Wikis] Run CentralNotice campaign inviting Usability Improvements feedback
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Esanders
T303362
Create Topic Container Prototype (mobile)
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matmarex
T305971
Change styling for Minerva/MobileFrontend section headings to use flexbox instead of table-cells
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Esanders
T306398
"Read as wiki page" footer appended to page when publishing a new topic
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T305733
Populate prototype with partner wiki language strings for UI elements
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T305735
Populate Usability Improvements patchdemo prototype with examples of local talk pages
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T305736
Translate mediawiki prototype page into partner wiki languages
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T305746
Update mediawiki.org prototype page
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T305737
Translate CentralNotice campaign banner into partner wiki languages
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Esanders
T305655
Create prototypes for usability testing of Usability Improvements (desktop + mobile)
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T302122
[Big Wikis] Run CentralNotice campaign inviting Topic Container feedback
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ppelberg
T301144
Make Usability Improvements Available via URL Parameter
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ppelberg
T302450
[SPIKE] How will Topic Containers handle sections that do NOT contain discussions
Resolved
Esanders
T306386
Exclude metadata and subscribe affordances from sections that do not contain discussions
Resolved
ppelberg
T306730
[SPIKE] What skins will the Editing Team ensure Usability Improvements support?
Resolved
matmarex
T309423
Page preview does not reflect published state
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matmarex
T309444
Post - edit highlight on Talk Pages does not cover entire topic container
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Esanders
T310090
Relative timestamps have inappropriate accuracy for comment signatures
Resolved
KieranMcCann
T310914
Implement Topic Container design adjustments (desktop + mobile)
Resolved
KieranMcCann
T308026
Make mobile Topic Containers easier for people to parse
Resolved
KieranMcCann
T309666
Make desktop Topic Containers easier for people to parse
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KieranMcCann
T308021
Usability Problem: Consider a different visual treatment for the overflow menu on mobile Talk Pages
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matmarex
T312670
[Config Change] Enable Topic Containers as beta feature at partner wikis (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T312685
[SPIKE] Decide whether additional config is necessary to isolate mobile and desktop Usability Improvement deployments
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ppelberg
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ppelberg
T299115
[SPIKE] Decide whether to show the sticky header in the talk namespace
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Esanders
T299246
[SPIKE] Decide how and if to show the table of contents in the talk namespace
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matmarex
T303662
[SPIKE] Document script(s) talk page activity indicator might need to cope with
Invalid
None
T307642
[SPIKE] Decide on approach to inconsistencies between titles of talk pages and associated action pages
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ppelberg
T307727
[SPIKE] Decide on approach to potential differences in namespace and page title font heights
Resolved
ppelberg
T309422
Revise link text within last comment indicator
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matmarex
T309424
Add article icon-link to sticky header on talk pages
Resolved
EAkinloose
T309463
[Talk pages] Polish the design for the table of contents shown on talk pages
Resolved
ppelberg
T309890
Latest comment indicator does not update when a new comment/topic is published
Resolved
ppelberg
T307715
Align contentSub with page title
Resolved
ppelberg
T306675
Display the latest comment indicator next to the siteSub/contentSub messages
Resolved
matmarex
T307726
Add topic button should become disabled after click
Duplicate
KieranMcCann
T310968
Revise how talk page titles are styled
Resolved
ppelberg
T313636
Add space between talk page namespace and page title
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T306440
Add markup to article headings to distinguish between the namespace and the title
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matmarex
T317907
[Config Change] Enable Page Frame as beta feature at partner wikis (desktop)
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Ryasmeen
T303634
Adapt new ToC to help people understand and navigate pages that contain discussions
Duplicate
None
T305663
[SPIKE] Determine what additional work (if any) is required to adapt ToC for use on discussion pages
Resolved
BUG REPORT
nray
T305123
Showing Table of contents sometimes requires reload (Vector 22, wmf.5)
Resolved
ppelberg
T305576
[SPIKE] Define work to be done before discussion-specific ToC is production ready
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ppelberg
T306364
Define treatment for H3 and H4 topics in ToC on talk page
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Jdlrobson
T307251
[ToC] Show new/modified sections after publishing an edit (new floating ToC)
Resolved
BUG REPORT
matmarex
T307480
Modify VisualEditor to trigger a hook with sections data for table of contents re-rendering
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matmarex
T307823
Improve how ToC is rendered to allow adding discussion enhancements
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ppelberg
T313454
[SPIKE] Decide whether config is necessary to isolate Page Frame to desktop talk pages
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T323725
[Announcement] Make volunteers aware of Page Frame functionality being added to beta feature (desktop)
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ppelberg
T304371
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Resolved
iamjessklein
T299814
Create design concepts for clearer talking affordances and page frame
Duplicate
KieranMcCann
T309465
Introduce an "Add Topic" button that is noticeable and available regardless of where people are on a talk page
Duplicate
None
T304341
What to do for topic container / page frame enhancements without new-Vector/sticky-header
Resolved
Esanders
T309904
Revise Reply button appearance to make it less distracting on busy talk pages (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T313453
[SPIKE] Decide whether config is necessary to isolate Clear Affordances to desktop talk pages
Resolved
Esanders
T314076
[Config Change] Make new Reply affordance styling available at mediawiki.org
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ppelberg
T314898
[SPIKE] Should a shared design pattern unify the appearance of talk page buttons' disabled states?
Resolved
DLynch
T315626
[Config Change] Add Clear Affordances to beta feature at partner wikis (desktop)
Resolved
Esanders
T314449
Reconsider the amount of whitespace between Topic Container and first comment (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T315581
Topic Containers can cause a blank space to appear atop desktop talk pages
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T317717
Announce planned Clear Affordances (desktop) Beta Feature deployment at partner wikis
Resolved
matmarex
T316175
Make the mobile Add Topic button easier for people to access
Resolved
ppelberg
T312671
[Release Ticket] Deploy Topic Containers (desktop) as Beta Feature (Phase 1 wikis)
Resolved
Esanders
T312672
[Config Change] Enable Topic Containers as beta feature at Phase 1 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
Esanders
T313560
Ensure Topic Container metadata and section heading styling appear simultaneously
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T314624
Announce planned Topic Container (desktop) beta feature deployment in Tech/News
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nayoub
T312674
Revisit placement of "Subscribe" / "Unsubscribe" within Topic Containers (desktop)
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Whatamidoing-WMF
T312665
Define deployment phases for Usability Improvement (desktop) Beta Feature rollout
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ppelberg
T315624
[Release ticket] Deploy Topic Containers as Beta Feature at Phase 2 & 3 Wikis (desktop)
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DLynch
T315625
[Config Change] Enable Topic Containers as beta feature at Phase 2 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T291676
Verify usability improvement are not "leaking"
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ppelberg
T280290
[SPIKE] Draft QA plan for topic container
Resolved
ppelberg
T299008
Publish summary of Topic Container design concepts feedback
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T317716
Announce planned Topic Containers (desktop) Beta Feature deployment at Phase 2 wikis
Resolved
matmarex
T318127
[Config Change] Enable Topic Containers as beta feature at Phase 3 wikis (desktop)
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ppelberg
T320682
[Release ticket] Deploy Clear Affordances as Beta Feature at Phase 1 Wikis
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matmarex
T320683
[Config Change] Add Clear Affordances to beta feature at Phase 1 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T321955
[Config Change] Add Clear Affordances to beta feature at Phase 3 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T321958
Announce addition of Clear Affordances to beta feature at Phase 2 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
DLynch
T323537
[Config Change] Add Clear Affordances (with arrow) to beta feature (desktop)
Resolved
nayoub
T320684
Converge on a revised Reply button style for languages where the word "reply" is short (desktop)
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T320685
Consult with volunteers about proposals for making desktop Reply button more legible
Resolved
Esanders
T352289
Reply link icon not shown in language variants of designated "short reply button" languages
Resolved
ppelberg
T323726
[Release ticket] Add Page Frame to Beta Feature at Phase 1 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
matmarex
T323727
[Config Change] Enable Page Frame as beta feature at Phase 1 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T327442
Announce addition of Page Frame features to beta feature (Phase 1 wikis, desktop)
Resolved
matmarex
T327456
[Config Change] Add Page Frame to beta feature at Phase 2 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T327457
Announce Page Frame addition to beta features at Phase 2 wikis (desktop)
Open
None
T314488
Revise the appearance of the sticky header's "Add topic" button (activated state)
Resolved
matmarex
T329407
[Config] Offer Usability Improvements as default-on features at partner wikis (desktop)
Declined
Trizek-WMF
T329408
Host conversations with volunteers about Usability Improvements (desktop) default-on deployments
Open
None
T331489
[SPIKE] Finalize deployment strategy for default-on Usability Improvements (desktop)
Resolved
ppelberg
T302358
[A/B Test] Run an A/B test to evaluate impact of Usability Improvements
Resolved
DLynch
T330938
Ensure the sampling rates of the DesktopWebUIActions and EditAttemptStep schemas are synchronized
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T332946
Identify wikis for participating in Usability Improvements A/B test (desktop)
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T332844
Publish proposal on mediawiki.org for how we will evaluate impact of Usability Improvements
Resolved
ppelberg
T302359
[Analysis] Usability Improvements: Calculate Engagement Metrics
Open
None
T309406
Turn on sampling in the MobileWebUIActions and DesktopWebUI schemas at partner wikis
Resolved
ppelberg
T296357
Define the populations we will partner with on the Usability Improvements work
Resolved
ppelberg
T298271
[SPIKE] Determine mobile talk page usage volume needs
Resolved
ppelberg
T333715
Implement bucketing for Usability Improvements A/B test
Resolved
sgrabarczuk
T332947
Run CentralNotice campaign inviting logged-in editors to try out Usability Improvements
Resolved
Esanders
T296351
Ensure Topic Container design concepts meet accessibility guidelines
Resolved
iamjessklein
T300071
[SPIKE] Devise strategy for evaluating accessibility of talk page Usability Improvements
Declined
None
T338151
Unexpected space between namespace and talk page title on pages in mobile subdomain
Resolved
None
T341491
[MILESTONE] Deploy config change to "turn off" Usability Improvements A/B test and enable features for A/B test wikis
Resolved
Trizek-WMF
T349547
Share Usability Improvements A/B test results and deployments plans with participating wikis (Phase 1)
Duplicate
None
T331312
[Release Ticket] Offer the Vector (2022) "Add topic" button at all wikis
Resolved
matmarex
T331313
[Config Change] Enable Vector (2022) "Add topic" button at partner wikis
Resolved
ovasileva
T267444
Make the affordance(s) for adding a new topic easier to identify and access (Vector 2022)
Resolved
matmarex
T304187
Introduce button for starting new topics within sticky header
Resolved
DLynch
T330191
Instrument the revised "Add topic" button treatment
Resolved
ppelberg
T330196
Make the new "Add Topic" button capable of being deployed via a phased rollout
Resolved
Whatamidoing-WMF
T331314
Consult with volunteers at partner wikis about enabling the Vector (2022) "Add topic" button
Resolved
Esanders
T352087
[MILESTONE] Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at Phase 2 wikis (desktop)
Resolved
Trizek-WMF
T352090
Share Usability Improvements A/B test results and deployments plans (Phase 2 wikis)
Resolved
Ryasmeen
T379102
[MILESTONE] Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at Phase 3 wikis (desktop)
Duplicate
None
T379263
Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at remaining top 10 wikis (except en.wp)
Resolved
Trizek-WMF
T379264
Phase 5: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at remaining large wikis
Resolved
Ryasmeen
T392121
Phase 4: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at wikis
Resolved
Trizek-WMF
T392122
Announce Usability Improvements *Phase 4* deployment in Tech/News
Open
Quiddity
T409297
Phase 6: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at English Wikipedia
Open
None
T318021
Add way to change title of ToC in Vector (2022)
Resolved
cscott
T324035
Add "title" as a property of TOCData
Open
None
T324807
Revise appearance of section edit links when visual enhancements are enabled
Open
None
T330952
Ensure the information and actions within Topic Containers are visually coherent
Open
BUG REPORT
None
T400408
Track engagement with comment thanking
Open
None
T400767
[SPIKE] Analyze "Thanking" volume over time
Resolved
ppelberg
T400849
Enable "Thanks" from talk pages as an opt-in beta feature
Open
None
T401980
Update "Show discussion activity" preference description to include overflow menu
Mentioned In
T400849: Enable "Thanks" from talk pages as an opt-in beta feature
T400767: [SPIKE] Analyze "Thanking" volume over time
T400216: [EPIC] Provide new ways to find people to thank/give wikilove
T249893: Add "Thanks" to talk page comments
Mentioned Here
T379264: Phase 5: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at remaining large wikis
T400408: Track engagement with comment thanking
T310959: Scale Usability Improvements to all projects
T249893: Add "Thanks" to talk page comments
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T376835: Add "thanks" button to Discussion Tools
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Is there instrumentation to understand the usage of this feature? I guess we could look at API usage of
discussiontoolsthank
and/or data associated with Echo notifications that comment thanking will generate?
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In
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Is there instrumentation to understand the usage of this feature? I guess we could look at API usage of
discussiontoolsthank
and/or data associated with Echo notifications that comment thanking will generate?
Yeah - there is only one place in the UI to thank a comment, so that would be sufficient for now.
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@ppelberg
@Esanders
what is the timeline for deploying this feature?
I'm asking because we intend to release
Incident-Reporting-System
to a single pilot wiki in December; one of the entry points to the incident reporting system is the ellipsis menu that the comment thanking feature also uses. There is no dependency between these two features, but both share the same entrypoint (the ellipsis menu) which is not yet enabled in production, so wanted to give you a heads-up on this. (cc
@Madalina
@mszabo
In
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Is there instrumentation to understand the usage of this feature? I guess we could look at API usage of
discussiontoolsthank
and/or data associated with Echo notifications that comment thanking will generate?
Perhaps we can use the click tracking in WikimediaEvents for this
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@kostajh
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@ppelberg
@Esanders
what is the timeline for deploying this feature?
Hey
@kostajh
, we've not yet set a time for when we'll deploy "Thanks."
Reason being: the Editing Team is needing to prioritize other work.
Although, you asking is causing me to realize that it'd be good for
@Madalina
and I to talk, which we'll do offline.
I'm glad you said something here...
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Change #1122638 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] DiscussionTools: enable thanking comments
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Quick summary of how thanking works with this deployment:
See a comment you want to thank
...
overflow menu appears next to the reply button on a DT page
It contains a "🖤 thank" item, which you click
The user who wrote the thanked comment is sent a notification saying that the comment was thanked, which includes the thanking user, the talk page section, and the comment id
The public thanks log will now include an item saying that User1 thanked User2, but not giving any details about what exactly was thanked
Before this deployment, the only way to thank someone for making a comment would be:
See a comment you want to thank
Look at the revision history for that talk page
Find the revision that created the specific comment you care about, presumably by looking based on the timestamp in the signature
<-- this is the painful bit
Use the "thank" tool in the history item
The user who wrote the thanked comment is sent a notification saying that the revision they made was thanked, which includes the thanking user and a link to the diff
The public thanks log will now include an item saying that User1 thanked User2, but not giving any details about what exactly was thanked
There's no exposure either way of exactly what was thanked, so although the comment you're thanking in the new method
isn't
immutable like a revision there's not any particular way to edit your comment to make it look like your thanker is endorsing something they didn't mean to. (We
might
want to be mindful about this in the future if enhancements were ever made to the thanks log, because there's enough data stored that we
could
decide to link from there to the revisions / comments that were thanked...)
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QA instructions:
Visit a wiki that has comment thanking enabled (
patchdemo
), and make sure you have two accounts available to use there (thanker, thankee).
Leave a comment on a talk page as the thankee.
Change to the thanker account.
Make sure that visual enhancements are enabled, either for the wiki as a whole or for your account (by enabling the beta feature and then making sure that "show discussion activity" is enabled in editing-preferences).
Verify that you can see the reply and overflow buttons on a talk page:
Find the thankee's comment, and click the overflow button:
Click the thank button and say you want to publicly send thanks:
Verify that the thankee receives a notification:
The notification should, when clicked, take you to the thanked comment
Check Special:Log on the wiki and make sure that the log indicates that the correct users were involved, and
doesn't
include any sort of information about exactly what content was thanked:
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Change #1172397 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools thanks on existing "report incident" wikis
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I've created this patchdemo with comment-thanking enabled:
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(The "publicly send thanks" popup, incidentally, is just a dialogified version of the existing experience for someone who was thanking a comment via the revision history:
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This looks great,
@DLynch
. With the following having happening, let's consider this ready to be deployed at testwiki and pt.wiki.
Steps
Ensure tracking is in place to track engagement with Thanks that originate from DT (
T400408
Confirm usability improvements can be deployed at wikis where it is not yet, without overflow and
Thank
being enabled
Confirm
usability improvements
must be enabled for the
•••
menu to be available, and in turn,
Thanks
Document QA instructions:
T366095#11032828
Review + give sign off
QA:
T366095#11039982
Decide on level of announcement
Let's include a short note in Tech/News. I'll propose in a separate comment to follow.
Confirm Connections team will assume responsibility for any subsequent work related to Thanking
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[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable DiscussionTools thanks on existing "report incident" wikis
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Testwiki and ptwiki now have comment thanking.
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I'm moving this back to "not ready to announce" (for Tech News purposes) because the draft (in the task-Description) is only about Ptwiki & Testwiki, and we generally don't announce things globally if they only affect a few wikis (as that is less distracting/confusing for everyone else).
Please rewrite the draft-announcement to be about the global (or much broader) deployment of this feature, and let me know when the time comes to announce that. Thanks!
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We just deployed this to mediawiki.org, because it's the one place that didn't have the beta feature available.
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This was announced in
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Per today's offline discussion, the Phase 1 deployment has been scheduled for 15 October 2025.
This deployment will be paired with another announcement in Tech/News. I've updated the task description to include draft language for this announcement.
Assigning over to
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Now added (with tweaks) to
- reassigning back to product owner.
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Now added (with tweaks) to
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Looks good to me; no edits. Thank you, Nick.
Next
: editing engineering to deploy change via backport next Wednesday, 15 October 2025.
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[operations/mediawiki-config@master] DiscussionTools: enable thanking comments
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Thanks should be present on all wikis that have visual enhancements enabled. If they don't have visual enhancements enabled, the beta feature should enable them and then thanks should be present. (It would in the future be possible to
not
enable thanks at the same time as visual enhancements, but this is not currently configured anywhere.)
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Can we consider this ticket as resolved? The remaining wikis will be covered with
T379264: Phase 5: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at remaining large wikis
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