Project:Support desk/Archives

This is the archives overview for the Support desk.

Archive From August 2010 to December 2024, the support desk used a LiquidThreads and later Flow discussion system. Any comments posted in that era can be found at Project:Support desk/Flow. See also Project:Support desk/LQT Archive 1. From March 2008 to August 2010, the support desk was split into per topic subsections, as were the archives. By topic archives (March 2008-August 2010) Topic Archives Installation (includes Legalities) 001, 002, 003 004 (includes revision history) System 001, 002, 003, 004 005 (includes revision history) Database (MySQL) 001, 002 003 (includes revision history) PHP 001 002 (includes revision history) Uploading (File formats, etc.) 001, 002 003 (includes revision history) Images (Thumbnails, etc.) 001, 002 003 (includes revision history) Formatting (CSS, JS, Tables, Templates, etc.) 001, 002 003 (includes revision history) Extensions (extensions' talk pages preferred in most cases though) 001, 002 003 (includes revision history) Miscellaneous 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007 008 (includes revision history) Older Multi-topic archives MediaWiki.org's Support desk went live in April 2006. Beforehand a few support questions were discussed on other talk pages, mainly on Talk:MediaWiki (now a redirect here, with the prior content at Template talk:Main page). The revision history of the support desk in this era is at Project:Support desk/old 2008 Archived on 2008-03-01 Archived on 2008-02-28 Archived on 2008-02-18 Archived on 2008-02-01 Archived on 2008-01-19 Archived on 2008-01-10 2007 Archived on 2007-12-30 Archived on 2007-12-07 Archived on 2007-11-05 Archived on 2007-09-24 Archived on 2007-09-02 Archived on 2007-07-29 by 2007-07-27 by 2007-07-01 by 2007-05-29 by 2007-03-24 by 2007-01-11 December 2006-February 2007 (in parallel with the above archives) Archives of the talk page of the support desk These (in theory) were for discussion about the support desk, rather than support requests. In practice this distinction was not always followed. 1 (2006–2008) 2 (2008–2010) 3 (2010–2015, includes revision history) 4 (2015-2018)