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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § Rephrase the talk page box "Description" prompt. Sdkb talk 15:09, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm relieved to find it's possible to subscribe in order to receive replies on Talk pages, but...

• I'm surprised this isn't the default
• There's an 'Add this page to your watchlist' tickbox when adding a reply, but no 'get notified of replies'
• The settting to turn this on automatically is found under 'Editing' settings, rather than 'Notifications' - I was expecting to find it under 'Notify me about these events' if it was possible at all, and it was only because I asked for help on the Wikipedia Discord and then clicked through to this Talk page that I was able to find it at all!

Oolong (talk) 10:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your first point, it is enabled by default for new users (registered on or after 2023-08-18) [1] T294398. When developing the feature, we were concerned that senior users would be unhappy to receive possibly hundreds of notifications per day. Matma Rex talk 14:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] It's great that it it's turned on by default for new users! Thanks for that. Can you see where I'm coming from by saying that it should be a Notification setting, not an Editing one? Oolong (talk) 14:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] Yeah, I see what you mean. Matma Rex talk 18:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] Is there still a 5000 limit? Doug Weller talk 14:47, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] Assuming you mean the limit on the number of your subscriptions – no, it was removed here: T294881. Matma Rex talk 18:44, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that it is perfectly possible to add templates using the standard visualmode interface in the reply tool by typing two opening braces ( }. Is there a substitute that works with REPLYTOOL? - Hipal (talk) 17:48, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you say more about what you're using it for, and in what manner is it not compatible with the reply tool? Matma Rex talk 11:59, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] I was notified about it in this discussion:User_talk:Hipal#Regarding_Template:Ref_expand. Try to edit my talk page and see what you get. --Hipal (talk) 19:17, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] Hmm, I see "Welcome, , to the Wikipedia user discussion page for Hipal." (testing here: [2]), so I guess that's the problem. However, I see the exact same text with discussion tools disabled (testing here: [3]), so the problem probably lies somewhere else. Has this magic word ever worked to show the username of the person viewing the page? mw:Help:Magic words doesn't mention that. Matma Rex talk 20:57, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] That's what I was wondering. I put that editnotice together a very long time ago, copying from who-knows-what. I'll poke around, but any suggestions would be welcome. --Hipal (talk) 22:13, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apropos Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project/Archive 3#new Reply Tool incompatible with certain templates

Tragic. There's really no way to make these work? I would think there would be some way to escape in a newline or virtual ^H, or modify the table tool to see/accept :|}?

Any include tools that expand text only in the context of Reply Tool?

-- RememberOrwell (talk) 04:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]