Talk:Structured Discussions/2020

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开启flow后仍是旧的讨论区

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开启flow后仍是旧的讨论区！ Renamed user 203fdf26960280cc3fc2ddba6f1730c977dce904e0faedd98b6456c84e46d607 (talk) 03:30, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

请加以说明。 Minorax (talk) 04:23, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax昨天意外关掉Flow,今天8.00重启了，现在还是旧的讨论区！ Renamed user 203fdf26960280cc3fc2ddba6f1730c977dce904e0faedd98b6456c84e46d607 (talk) 06:01, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

您是再说您自己的用户讨论页吗？ Minorax (talk) 06:03, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax对的，是我中文维基百科的用户讨论页。 Renamed user 203fdf26960280cc3fc2ddba6f1730c977dce904e0faedd98b6456c84e46d607 (talk) 06:04, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

如果我没错的话，您应该将当前的讨论页面移至存档页面，以在您的讨论页开启flow。 Minorax (talk) 06:08, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax我是个新手不会弄！ Renamed user 203fdf26960280cc3fc2ddba6f1730c977dce904e0faedd98b6456c84e46d607 (talk) 06:13, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

那您应该找个管理员来帮你啊。 Minorax (talk) 06:14, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

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Pages without Flow enabled

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How can I force Flow talk page manager to disable Flow on my talk page? C.Ezra.M (talk) 17:46, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

On which wiki?

If you've got it enabled as a beta feature, disabling it there should remove the StructuredDiscussions system from your talk page.

On a wiki like this one where it's enabled by default, you instead need to go to Special:ChangeContentModel and change the content model of the blank page to "wikitext". Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:16, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

I meant this wiki. I know changing content model is restricted to administrators here. Yes, I want the same feeling as on Ciencia Al Poder's talk page. C.Ezra.M (talk) 19:25, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Oh, right, this wiki. You should have asked on Project:Current issues. :-) Done. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 20:14, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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Flow\Exception\InvalidDataException

My talk page for zhwiki broke with this exception. Where should I report this? I see that there is a ticket on Phabricator; should I have reported there instead? Franklin Yu (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Special Page for all Recent Topics

As I am using StructeredDecisions on a smaller Wiki, I would like to see the most recent discussions in some sort of list linking to the respective pages (more lik a forum/table view). Did somebody already program something similar? VolkoV (talk) 18:46, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

What happened to my talk page?

My talk page is now an archive. I'm not sure what happened:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Discostu Discostu (talk) 09:04, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

I jumped in to repair the talk page itself,[1] however someone should investigate what went wrong.

On 7 April 2020, the Flow talk page manager archived the page.[2] I assume(?) this was initiated by the user opting-in to Flow.

• It used the the expected edit summary (Adding archive template).
• It added the expected archive header and category.
• Oddly, it also repeated the Welcome message that was already present.

On 30 April 2020, the Flow talk page manager de-archived the page.[3] I assume(?) this was initiated by the user opting-out of Flow.

• It used the the expected edit summary (Removing archive template).
• Incorrectly, it added a second archive header.
• Oddly, it also added a third copy of the Welcome message.

Possibly relevant clue(?): The Welcome template that was on the talk page is normally supposed to be substed but it wasn't. The Flow talk page manager left the Welcome template intact, and each time it added a subst version. Alsee (talk) 22:47, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

I did not opt-out of flow on April 30th. This happened without me doing anything (at least not knowingly). -- Discostu (talk) 07:38, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

"Structured Discussions on user talk" not working

Hello the feature exist as a beta feature that can be enabled. It was enabled I don't even remember since when and now I deactivated and activated again a couple of times but nothing seems to change. Anybody knows whats going on? My talk page on Greek wikipedia.

Thanks! Gnslps (talk) 15:48, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Desactivate structured discussion on my user talk page

I'd like to desactivate the structured discussion on my user talk page, but it is not working (the clicking bow in preferences isn't working).

Can someone halp me or do it for me (or tell me whom should I ask for help) ?

@Martin m159 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Martin_m159 Martin m159 (talk) 17:24, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

You can't on MediaWiki, but you can activate/deactivate it on other wikis. Prahlad balaji (talk) 21:22, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

@Prahlad balaji: That's not true. It's entirely possible to have a wikitext talk page on MediaWiki.org, it's just that an admin has to manually create it. See Talk:Structured Discussions/2020#h-Pages_without_Flow_enabled-2020-02-25T17:46:00.000Z for an example of a successful request for a Wikitext talk page. As for the original issue on the French Wikipedia, I think the problem may be phab:T234241, but don't know how to solve it. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:29, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

@Martin m159: I think you should take Pppery's advice. I'm a noob in this area. Prahlad balaji (talk) 21:32, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps you shouldn't suggest something is impossible when you self-admittedly are a noob? * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:33, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

@Pppery: Yeah...  ;) Prahlad balaji (talk) 03:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

This has been done. (/me points at User talk:-revi) — Revi 15:44, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Ah, for frwiki! For the record:

You will have to ask wiki admins to...

1. visit your talk page
2. append &action=info in URL bar (or click Page information in sidebar)
3. click change in "Page content model" section
4. make New content model: "wikitext" and save. — Revi 15:47, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Pinned a Topic

Hi, Is there anyway to pinned a topic on board or we can sort the topic by old to topmost? The problem is that users are suppressing the topics created by admins through creating new topics. It will be very helpful there are any hack or method for sort or pinned. Jayprakash12345 (talk) 08:18, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Prevent editing of "About this board" description

Hello, please tell me how to prevent registered users from changing the description of "About this board"? Rogue Vor tex (talk) 21:02, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Disadvantage: Browser can not restore form data

Although structured discussions are more convenient, one disadvantage is that if one accidentally navigates away from the site, or closes the tab, the browser can only recover the title and not the text field. 84.147.35.94 (talk) 14:56, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes. Thankfully, the code recovers it instead. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 08:57, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Acticating Flow for the event talk page

Hi, there a was request in fiwiki that we could enable structured discussion to the talk page of a project page. The wiki project is for Plan International's girls day edithaton and it is used for Q&A style answering for a people who have a.) never edited Wikipedia and b.) aren't seasoned writers so it would help that if commenting would be easier than wikicode.

- https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keskustelu_wikiprojektista:Tytt%C3%B6jen_p%C3%A4iv%C3%A4_2020

Fiwiki has Flow extension enabled and it has been used like this before (see https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keskustelu_wikiprojektista:Sata_naista_Wikipediaan ) However, it was managed by User:Flow_talk_page_manager so I don't know if there are any local users with suitable rights.

So my question is if using Structured discussions in new pages is still possible in fiwiki? Zache (talk) 11:08, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Structured Discussions is no longer in feature development

Is there a high-level overview of Flow ⇒ Structured Discussions ⇒ "Children of Structured Discussions" and the intended future path(s) ? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 12:38, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Viewing Wikitext source code of comments

How can one view the WikiText source code of comments to facilitate block quotes? 79.249.152.18 (talk) 20:19, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Logged-in editors have extra buttons for "Edit" on other people's comments, and can view-source that way. IP-editors do not have that feature, nor a workaround for that functionality at this time. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

How to search structured discussions?

Special:Search can not search the Topic: name space.

How can I search structured discussions?

I would like to be able to optionally search all discussions or those from a single talk page, such as this one or Project:Support_desk. 79.249.155.180 (talk) 10:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this has not been implemented yet, sorry. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:54, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

"no longer in feature development" - why?

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I'm reading that Structured Discussions is no longer in feature development, and new deployments have been suspended..

One question: why? Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 18:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

If you follow the link, it brings you to https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/082993.html AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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