Structured Discussions/Rollout
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- Releases: A fairly high-level overview of changes to Structured Discussions.
- Rollout: List of wikis that have been Structured Discussions-enabled
- see instructions for requesting Structured Discussions at a new wiki, at Structured Discussions/Request Structured Discussions on a page
- Process: steps to enable Structured Discussions on a wiki and a page.
Releases
editHow do we proceed:
- The latest Structured Discussions code appears on the beta cluster (test page).
- Every Tuesday between 18:00 and 20:00 UTC, the Structured Discussions code goes out with the new MediaWiki release to mediawiki.org (test page).
- On Thursday, that MediaWiki release is deployed on wikis
To see in detail what's changed:
- Collaboration team weekly deployment planning
- browse Structured Discussions in git or gerrit.
- See subpages of MediaWiki 1.23 and MediaWiki 1.24
- See development updates sent to the mailing list
(Older notes can be seen in this revision.)
Rollout
editThe following is a listing of wikis, with current Structured Discussions status. Also see wikis where Structured Discussions is available as a Beta feature or by default.
| Code | Language | Project | Status | Decisions | Trial location if any | Notes |
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| mw | - | MediaWiki | default | 2013-12:
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| en.wp | English | Wikipedia | Removed from en.wp | 2014-02 (implement trials) 2016-11 (removed) |
en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hampshire Discontinued en:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Breakfast/Flow_archive Discontinued (phab:T122961) |
See also:phab:T148611: Plan to disable Structured Discussions on Enwiki phab:T78640: The en:Wikipedia:Co-op project proposal |
| he.wp | Hebrew | Wikipedia | manual, ongoing | 2014-09 (emailed request) | שיחת ויקיפדיה:זרימה | |
| fr.wp | French | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2014-09 - Help desk [1]
2015-08 - User talk pages 2016-06 - Beta |
fr:Wikipédia:Flow/Bac à sable | |
| ca.wp | Catalan | Wikipedia | Beta Feature | 2014-12 Entire Project_talk: namespace converted
2015-12 Beta feature request [2] |
ca:Viquipèdia:La taverna/Tecnicismes | |
| – | – | Officewiki[1] | default | 2014-12 | Most of officewiki is converted, converted 7 LQT pages | |
| pt.wp | Portuguese | Wikipedia | test pages | 2015-01 [3] | pt:Wikipédia:Contato/Fale com a Wikipédiapt:Wikipédia:Contato/Fale com a Wikipédia | |
| pa.wp | Punjabi | Wikipedia | test pages | 2015-03 (emailed request) | ||
| te.wp | Telugu | Wikipedia | test pages | 2015-03 (emailed request) | ||
| zh.wp | Chinese | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2015-03 [4] | ||
| ru.wp | Russian | Wikipedia | test page | 2015-03 [5] | ru:Обсуждение Википедии:Поток ru:Википедия:Песочница/Flow | |
| d | - | Wikidata | Beta feature | 2015-06 [6] Request for Beta feature [7] | Some community boards are using Flow. | |
| pl.wp | Polish | Wikipedia | not yet | 2015-07 [8] and [9] | pl:Pomoc:Pytania nowicjuszy | |
| sv.wp | Swedish | Wikipedia | not yet | 2015-07 [10] | sv:Wikipediadiskussion:Flow | |
| c | – | Commons | removed from Commons | 2018-01 [11] | Commons_talk:Flow Discontinued Commons_talk:Flow/tests Discontinued |
Consensus to uninstall.[12] Flow deactivated instead. |
| lv.wp | Latvian | Wikipedia | 2015-08 [13] | |||
| fa.wp | Persian | Wikipedia | trial pages | 2015-09 [14] - 2017-02 | Three help pages: fa:ویکیپدیا:قهوهخانه/خبررسانی fa:ویکیپدیا:درخواست راهنمایی fa:ویکیپدیا:پرسشهای متفرقه |
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| fr.wikt | French | Wiktionary | trial page | 2015-09 [15] | Wikt:fr:Wiktionnaire:Questions sur les mots/Flow | |
| wmse | Swedish | Chapter | 2015-09 [16] | All LiquidThreads pages have been converted | ||
| ar.wp | Arabic | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2015-10 [17] | Two community pages since August 2016. | |
| wmfi | Finnish | Chapter | 2015-10 [18] | All LiquidThreads pages have been converted | ||
| bs.wp | Bosnian | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2015-11 [19] | ||
| ur.wp | Urdu | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2015-11 [20] | ||
| pt.wb | Portuguese | Wikibooks | Pending since 2015-11 [21] | Pending LQT conversion | ||
| gom.wp | Konkani | Wikipedia | default | 2016-02 Local consensus Prabricator task | All talk pages and discussion pages are in Structured Discussions format. | |
| kab.wp | Kabyle | Wikipedia | trial pages + user talk pages | 2016-04 - 2016-07 | ||
| fr.ws | French | Wikisource | Beta feature | 2016-04 Beta feature vote | ||
| no.wp | Norwegian | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2016-05 | ||
| id.wp | Indonesian | Wikipedia | trial pages + help desk | 2016-05 | Wikipedia:Flow/Bak_pasir | |
| species | - | Wikispecies | Beta feature | 2016-05 Request for Beta feature | ||
| fr.wo | French | Wikivoyage | Beta feature | 2016-05 Vote for Beta, Phab task | ||
| outreach: | Outreach | Beta Feature | 2016-05 Discussion for Beta | |||
| fr.wq | French | Wikiquote | Beta feature | 2016-06 Request for Beta | ||
| el.wp | Greek | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2016-10 Request for Beta | ||
| fr.wv | French | Wikiversity | Beta feature | 2016-06/2017-04 T162022 | ||
| ca.wq | Catalan | Wikiquote | default | 2017-05-06 T164498 for the Beta feature
2017-05-30 T165497 for default activation |
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| wa.wp | Wallon | Wikipedia | Beta feature | 2017-08 T172947 | ||
| wa.wikt | Wallon | Wiktionary | Beta feature | |||
| or.wp | Odia | Wikipedia | trial pages | 2017-09 T110846
2018-10 T206317 |
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:Flow/Test |
| Past/Ongoing discussions | ||||||
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| Code | Language | Project | Initial Sandbox and feedback pages | Trial location | Opt-in for usertalk | Notes |
| ko | Korean | Wikipedia | request here (to be followed-up) | |||
| s:en | English | Wikisource | discussion | |||
| fi | Finnish | Wikipedia | discussion | |||
| cs | Czech | Wikipedia | 2015-12 [22] - not yet | |||
| or | Oria | Wikipedia | Phab:T110846 | |||
| m | – | Meta | 1, 2, 3, 4 | n/a | no | Structured Discussions was uninstalled from Meta, by consensus. |
(Older notes can be seen in Discussions/Rollout&oldid=1844075 this revision.)
Process
editRequesting Structured Discussions at a new wiki
edit- No new deployments of Structured Discussions are being made.
Ways in which enabling Structured Discussions affects a wiki
edit- See also the documentation
Structured Discussions does not affect any non-special pages of a wiki other than the page(s) where Structured Discussions has been deployed.
- Feeds
You will see slight differences in Structured Discussions entries in:
- RecentChanges
- Special:Contributions
- Watchlist
- Special:Log
We're working to make those entries look more like page edits.
- History
Each Structured Discussions topic has its own history. The Structured Discussions board is currently the history of topic-level changes. We're working to make it look and behave more like a page history.
- Moderating content
Currently, deletion and suppression are done from the Structured Discussions board, by using the action menu next to a topic or post. In the future, we will move deletion and suppression actions to the history to make them work more like RevisionDeletion
- Pagelinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, etc.
This functionality is not yet implemented, but work on it is currently in progress.
Steps in activating the Structured Discussions extension on a Wikimedia wiki
editSteps in enabling Structured Discussions on a talk page on a Wikimedia wiki
editOn wikis where Structured Discussions are available as a Beta feature, go to the Beta Features tab in your preferences.
To enable Structured Discussions on an other talk page, see How to request Structured Discussions? If your community has decided to use Structured Discussions, someone with the flow-create-board right will use Special:EnableStructuredDiscussions to create the page.
Steps on converting an entire namespace to Structured Discussions (for developers)
edit- Check translation status at TranslateWiki.net. In addition to general status, check:
- The archive prefix (flow-conversion-archive-page-name-format).
- The name of the template (flow-importer-wt-converted-template).
- The content of the template (flow-importer-wt-converted-template-content).
- If the FlowCreateTemplates.php script was run before those updates, some updates to the wiki may be needed (e.g. the template content and name).
- mwscript extensions/Flow/maintenance/convertNamespaceFromWikitext.php --wiki=somewiki 'Namespace_name'
- in 1.34 and older:
- mwscript populateContentModel.php --wiki=somewiki --ns=namespace_numeric_id --table=revision
- mwscript populateContentModel.php --wiki=somewiki --ns=namespace_numeric_id --table=archive
- mwscript populateContentModel.php --wiki=somewiki --ns=namespace_numeric_id --table=page
- Immediately after the above, deploy a change that updates wmgFlowNamespaces in InitialiseSettings.php.
Notes
edit- ↑ Private Wikimedia Foundation wiki.