Talk:Talk pages project/New topic
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VisualEditor
Please make VisualEditor available when composing a new topic. (Currently, VisualEditor is available only to edit existing topics.) Rootsmusic (talk) 03:09, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Clarity of "Subject / Description" field names
Was it a considered design decision in 2022 that the message body field be called "Description", or is this a placeholder? Something like Enter your message here would seem much clearer, although I don't know what other contexts this system string might be used in.
I'm wondering how much of the talk page confusion that happens on enwiki (eg. people posting what seem like web search terms, or trying to enter text-to-image prompts at Talk:Midjourney) is new users not realising what the context of their entered text will be, when the website asks them for a "subject" and a "description". Belbury (talk) 11:39, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps nobody watches these pages. I've moved things forward with a proposal to change the text on enwiki, at en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Rephrase_the_talk_page_box_"Description"_prompt Belbury (talk) 15:58, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Subscribe to new topic
There's a checkbox to watch the entire talk page, but what I want is to subscribe to the topic (ideally for any changes but at least for replies). IMO this should be the default when creating an H2 topic on a talk page. Jruderman (talk) 12:18, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- The default can be set, using the Automatically subscribe to topics option in your preferences. There’s no checkbox to control it on a case-by-case basis, but you can simply press the Subscribe button next to the topic header after you’ve started it. (Due to how DiscussionTools works, all subscriptions track recognized comments; unrecognized comments and other edits in the section don’t generate notifications. If you want to be 100% sure that you don’t miss anything, page watching is still your only option.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)