Project:Support desk/Archives

This is the archives overview for the Support desk.
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Wikitext archives

Since December 2024, the support desk has used standard wikitext archives.

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LQT/Flow exports

From August 2010 to December 2024, the support desk used a LiquidThreads and later Flow discussion system. The original Flow board Project:Support desk/Flow. When Flow was deprecated, User:Flow cleanup bot was run to generate wikitext exports of the Flow board, one for each month (organized by the first post in the topic), with revision history:

Although the Flow board was supposed to be marked read only in December 2024, a few people continued using it into January 2025. These are archived at Project:Support desk/Flow/2025/01, and overlap with the wikitext archives.

Note that, especially for the older exports, a lot of the bot's known markup formatting issues (listed on its userpage) are likely to appear - they have been cleaned of the most obvious errors such as unclosed tags, but may not be a perfect representation of what happened.

By topic archives (March 2008-August 2010)

From March 2008 to August 2010, the support desk was split into per topic subsections, as were the archives.

Topic Archives
Installation (includes Legalities) 001, 002, 003 004 (includes revision history)
System 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006 (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), talk page
Images (Thumbnails, etc.) 001, 002 003 (includes revision history) talk page
Formatting (CSS, JS, Tables, Templates, etc.) 001, 002, 003 (includes revision history), talk page
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), talk page

Other subpages containing history of support desk posts that got archived into one of the above archives include Project:Support desk/Sections/Misc and Project:Support desk/Sections/OtherProg.

From 2007 to 2010 a formal "support team" existed, which is preserved at Project:Support desk/Support team, and its talk page at Project talk:Support desk/Support team.

Ancient archives (2006-August 2008)

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

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.