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It's been a Beta Feature for years without significant change (which normally would mean it should have been discontinued). The product works quite well (and would have been somewhat helpful with a big media story last week, for instance). The performance impact of enabling this for readers is trivial until the user clicks the "visual" button, which I don't propose to make default yet. When the long-planned multiple-diff-tools project (to provide single-column diff on desktop //etc.//) happens this could plug into that, but let's just get it out there? == September 2022 plan == * Default "on" for everyone at the wiki (=adds a switching button to diff pages) * Default to "wikitext" for everyone (it's a sticky pref, so whatever you used last time is what you'll get next time) * Not Wiktionaries (templates) or Wikipedias (scale/size) during the first round

It's been a Beta Feature for years without significant change (which normally would mean it should have been discontinued). The product works quite well (and would have been somewhat helpful with a big media story last week, for instance). The performance impact of enabling this for readers is trivial until the user clicks the "visual" button, which I don't propose to make default yet. When the long-planned multiple-diff-tools project (to provide single-column diff on desktop //etc.//) happens this could plug into that, but let's just get it out there? == September 2022 plan == * Default "on" for everyone at the wiki (=adds a switching button to diff pages) * Default to "wikitext" for everyone (it's a sticky pref, so whatever you used last time is what you'll get next time) * Not Wiktionaries (templates) or Wikipedias (scale/size) during the first round == March 2023 plan == * Default "on" for everyone * Default to "wikitext" for everyone who hasn't used it before * Wiktionaries (where it will probably not get much use) and Wikipedias (may be split into multiple deployments because of scale/size)

It's been a Beta Feature for years without significant change (which normally would mean it should have been discontinued). The product works quite well (and would have been somewhat helpful with a big media story last week, for instance). The performance impact of enabling this for readers is trivial until the user clicks the "visual" button, which I don't propose to make default yet. When the long-planned multiple-diff-tools project (to provide single-column diff on desktop //etc.//) happens this could plug into that, but let's just get it out there? == September 2022 plan == * Default "on" for everyone at the wiki (=adds a switching button to diff pages) * Default to "wikitext" for everyone (it's a sticky pref, so whatever you used last time is what you'll get next time) * Not Wiktionaries (templates) or Wikipedias (scale/size) during the first round == March 2023 plan == * Default "on" for everyone * Default to "wikitext" for everyone who hasn't used it before * Wiktionaries (where it will probably not get much use) and Wikipedias (may be split into multiple deployments because of scale/size)