Reading/Web/Preference Persistence For Anonymous Users

Wikimedia Foundation projects Preference Persistence for Anonymous Users Adding the ability to preserve preferences for anonymous users Start: 2023-04 End: 2023-08 Team members: Web Backlog: Phabricator Epic Lead: Nat Hillard (Engineering Manager) Updates: Updates sub-page ← Desktop Improvements Accessibility for reading →

To support our work around Accessibility for reading, we needed the ability to store preferences for anonymous users. To ensure we did this with input from a wide swath of the Foundation, we went through the Technical decision making forum and process. From April to August of 2023, 16 individuals representing 12 teams from across the Foundation discussed concerns and evolved our problem statement and parameters together. The outcome was a decision record documenting this decision and an implementation that accounted for these concerns and parameters.

Updates

Main page: Reading/Web/Preference Persistence For Anonymous Users/Updates

Decision

• Decision record
• Implementation summary

Phases

1.  Done Identify the decision team and project owner (T333867)
2.  Done Define the problem statement (T333867)
3.  Done Get feedback from the Decision Forum (T333877)
4.  Done Research and prototype solutions – Summary (T333878)
5.  Done Make and document decision (T333882)
6.  Done Implement Anonymous Preference Persistence API (T333883)

Latest

Diagram of output from May 17 discussion of persistent preferences guardrails

August 2023

• Aug 23: Decision record published
• Aug 9: Patch for T339268 merged

July 2023

July 27: TDF Finalization discussion – action items

May 2023

• May 17: TDF Feedback discussion 2 – notes, diagram to the side
• May 2: TDF Feedback discussion 1 – notes

April 2023

• April 24: Technical Decision Forum Feedback meeting – notes
• April 3: TDMP Ticket Created – T333867

March 2023

Mar 22: Proposal submitted to the Technical Decision Forum – proposal