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Wikipedia:Flow - Wikipedia

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Talk pages consultation 2019

In February 2019 the WMF announced a global consultation on tools for wiki communication, which ran until June 2019. See Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019.

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Subject namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	(Main/Article)	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Wikipedia	Wikipedia talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
100	Portal	Portal talk	101
118	Draft	Draft talk	119
126	MOS	MOS talk	127
710	TimedText	TimedText talk	711
828	Module	Module talk	829
Former namespaces
108	Book	Book talk	109
442	Course	Course talk	443
444	Institution	Institution talk	445
446	Education Program	Education Program talk	447
2300	Gadget	Gadget talk	2301
2302	Gadget definition	Gadget definition talk	2303
2600	Topic		2601
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special
-2	Media
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Flow, also known as Structured Discussions, was a project of the Global Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to replace Wiki Talk pages with a discussion system which would more closely resemble common internet discussion forums. Development began in 2013, it was installed at English Wikipedia in 2014, then uninstalled in 2016 due to widespread criticism of the design and functionality. In 2019, a global community consultation resulted in a change in strategy. All new development and new deployments of Flow ended globally, to instead build reply links and other improvements for existing Talk pages.

The name comes from Workflow and Flow (psychology).

Flow was intended to provide certain features that are present on some other popular websites, but were thought not to be easy to implement in wikitext.

For example, Flow automatically:

signed posts,
threaded replies, and
permitted per-topic notifications.

These features were subsequently replicated for Talk pages with the Discussion Tools project.

However Flow also resulted in the loss of certain features within wikitext, such as:

the ability to use the "history" tab to view all comments since one looked at the talk page last, and
the ability to easily portray article content on talk pages.
direct support for wikitext, instead providing partial and unstable wikitext support by translation to Flow's native content format using Parsoid.

The main goals for the Flow project were:

to make the wiki discussion system more accessible for new users.
to make the wiki discussion system more efficient for experienced users.
to encourage meaningful conversations that support collaboration.

Former and current deployments

Flow was uninstalled from English Wikipedia in November 2016, by request from the community.^[1]
There are currently no plans for it to return to English Wikipedia, and it is planned to be undeployed from the entire wiki farm sometime soon.

Flow was MediaWiki namespace number 2600.

Contact and links

On Structured Discussions:

A much more in-depth description is on mediawiki.org
You can also view this about Structured Discussions on Phabricator: open tasks, all tasks, or submit a new task.

References

^ Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 15#Flow removed from Enwiki for now

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