The
Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out
preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
It is also available as a
Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following
these simple instructions.
Research notes:
As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool.
Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.
[1]
The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.
[2] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for
Special:LintErrors.
A large
A/B test will start soon.[3] This is part of
the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at
24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in
Special:Preferences.
During
Talk pages consultation 2019, editors
said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The
Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at
mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.