Flow/Proposal for Ptwikibooks
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Proposal to convert LiquidThreads pages over to Flow
Greetings, to the Portuguese Wikibooks community.
I’m working with the Collaboration team, and we’ve been decommissioning LQT pages and converting them into Flow, the new structured discussion system. Would this community like to convert your active LiquidThreads pages over to Flow?
Detailed background information, follows: Over the past few months, the 1,600+ pages using LiquidThreads at mediawiki.org have all been converted to use the mw:Flow extension (e.g. mw:Project:Support desk). LiquidThreads has not been well-supported for a long time, and Flow now has 15 wikis actively using it, including 4 wikis using it for daily work. E.g. Catalan Wikipedia's Village Pumps (ca:Viquipèdia:La_taverna) and their entire Viquipèdia_Discussió namespace, the French and Polish Wikipedia's Newcomer's helpdesks (w:fr:Wikipédia:Forum des nouveaux and w:pl:Pomoc:Pytania nowicjuszy), the Portuguese Wikipedia's Contact Wikipedia noticeboard (w:pt:Wikipédia:Contato/Fale com a Wikipédia, plus most of mediawiki.org)
If you're not familiar with Flow, here's a brief overview. It is the new discussion and collaboration extension, that aims to reduce many of the complexities of existing discussion pages, whilst also increasing the powerful options for highly active editors. Much like LiquidThreads, it places posts in a structured format, supports per-topic watchlisting, supports the standard moderation processes, and organizes topics by the time of last update. It can be used with both wikitext and visualeditor editing-modes. You can experiment with the various features at mw:Talk:Sandbox.
Converting the local pages will: Move your unread items from Special:NewMessages into the Echo system; Redirect all LiquidThreads links to their new locations; Retain all your watchlisted threads in your watchlist; Copy any page-header templates into the Flow Board description area; Archive the existing page for log-purposes and add templates to the top; plus a few more technical details - see mw:Flow/Converting LiquidThreads for those.
Please let us know what you think, and I'll be happy to answer any questions. Much thanks.