Beta Features/New Features

This page is a staging area for product teams who wish to add new experiments to the Beta Features project.

We invite product owners who would like to experiment with a new feature to add it to this list, and answer these questions:
 * 1) What is this feature? Describe its main purpose and function.
 * 2) What will happen when this feature is enabled through this Beta Features tool?
 * 3) If replacing an existing feature, which, and what will the differences be to a user?

Please fill in answers to the questions for each feature, and add any other features which you would like to test through this project.

For more tips on how to prepare your feature for inclusion Beta Features program, check the Package page. Once considered, proposals are placed in the archive.

Compact personal tools
As additional features are added to the site the contents of the "Personal tools" has become extensive, extensions, preferences, and gadgets can also additional items, furthering the problems of finding what you need quickly, due to the proliferation of targets here, targets that users are most interested in like watchlist and notification are becoming harder to access quickly. Compact Personal Bar seek to solve these problems as well as provide a logical place for new items to be added as needed. An organized flyout of the contents of the MediaWiki "Personal Bar"The "Personal Bar" at the top of the site with access to profile, notification, preferences, log out, etc will be collapsed into a flyout menu with logical grouping at take up less space on screen. info | discussion Juliusz Gonera, May Galloway, Jared Zimmerman
 * Problem to solve…
 * What does it do?
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VE on Flow
The first release of Flow will allow users to type in markup. Future releases may also have the option to create posts using the Visual Editor. We want to pilot this functionality using the Beta Features experimentation space. Add a VE bar to the compose post screen in Flow. Allow users to add bold, italics, links, and possibly some other features of VE to their posts. Users will be able to compose Flow posts using VE instead of markup. none yet Core features – PM: Maryana Pinchuk; Devs: Erik Bernhardson, Matthias Mullie, Benny Situ, Andrew Garrett
 * Problem to solve…
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Fixed Site Header (Winter)
Allow access to existing and new site functions irrespective of scroll position on page, especially search. Site header will remain fixed to the top of the browser when the user scrolls down the page Demo | Documentation Other Resources Brandon Harris
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Annotations/Community Highlighter
Highlight important content and comment on it Allow individual users to store and view public annotations on articles. See most common highlights directly on page. Extension:Annotator Richa Jain (GSOC), Matt Flaschen, Steven Walling
 * Problem to solve…
 * What does it do?
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Link Everything
Support browsing by making all article text link to existing articles Make all text n-grams link to existing pages on wiki, but don't style text as links (too visually busy) info | discussion Up for grabs!
 * Problem to solve…
 * What does it do?
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