https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24815
Summary: Archived LiquidThreads talk pages management
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: LiquidThreads
AssignedTo: agarr...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: federicol...@tiscali.it
Depends on: 24814
The main strength of LQT is also its weakness: potentially you can reply to a
five-years old huge thread and bump it to the top of the talk page and to lots
of users' Special:NewMessages.
Currently, users won't reply to old discussions because if you read only the
page and not the history you don't find easily new messages on old sections,
which are less visible; and you are actively discouraged from replying to
archived discussions because nobody looks at the archives and to revive a
thread you should de-archive it (and you can't).
With LQT, you may even not notice that a thread is archived: try e.g.
[[strategy:Thread:Talk:Task force/Wikipedia Quality/Quick update]], where the
only hint you have is that "From Task force/Wikipedia Quality/Archive 1" under
the title (warning! the talk page is huge – I always get an unresposive script
error); and obviously if old threads are just put in some "next page" you are
not supposed to move them in a subpage.
Summarizing could help, but not every thread will be summarized.
I think that users should be discouraged from replying threads which: are more
old than x; or are e.g. in the third page (assuming 10 threads per page); or
have been summarized with a consensual ssummary; or have been closed with some
new "thread status" feature.
Please note that due to bug 24814 it's currently impossible to completely
archive and protect a talk page. In fact I wrote this as an example of that
bug, but it's a separate issue. There's already a discussion on this at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:LiquidThreads/Redesign/Discussion_status
, I think thaat we can continue there and leave this bug here as placeholder
(if you wish).
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