This task is about making the Reply Tool available as an opt-out feature at the ===Phase 3 Wikis listed below

⚠️ Deployment timing

Thursday, 30 September 2021 during the EU Backport and Config training window

Phase 3 Wikis

In T280388, we came to define "Phase 3" wikis as: Small-to-medium Wikipedias, plus all single-language non-Wikipedias (e.g., the Wikiquotes and Wikivoyages) In combination with previous deployments, this means the [Reply] tool will be available at nearly all WMF-hosted wikis except the ones excluded in this table:

Requirements

People who meet the criteria below will see the Reply Tool ( read: [ reply ]) when visiting a talk page:

1. People who are logged in or logged out
2. People at any of the wikis listed in the ===Phase 3 Wikis section above

People who meet the criteria below will *NOT* see the Reply Tool ( read: [ reply ]) when visiting a talk page:

1. People at any of the wikis listed in the ===Phase 3 Wikis section above
2. People who have explicitly disabled the Enable quick replying setting within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing

Testing instructions

At the wikis listed in the ===Wikis to test section below, do the following...

Logged in

1. Log in as an existing user
2. Visit a talk page
3. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
4. Click a [ reply ] link on the page of your choosing
5. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
6. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

Logged out

1. Visit a talk page
2. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
3. Click a [ reply ] link on the page of your choosing
4. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
5. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

New account

1. Create a new account
2. Visit a talk page
3. Verify [ reply ] links are present next to each comment
4. Click a [ reply ] link on a page of your choosing
5. Verify the Reply Tool opens as expected
6. Document the text input mode – source or visual - that you see by default

Wikis to test

Done

• @ppelberg finalized Deployment timing
• All ===Requirements are met