hiwiki:LiquidThreads
I give a proposal to install the LiquidThreads discussion system on hindi wikipedia village pump, and if successful, we can use it on some other pages.
About LiquidThreads
LiquidThreads replaces discussion pages with actual forums, giving the following benefits:
- A clear, simplified post/reply workflow so new users can jump right into the discussion.
- Simple management of threads, including automation of archival, refactoring, and other tasks currently undertaken by bots and humans.
- A powerful, flexible notification system, allowing users to keep abreast of developments in areas in which they are interested, ranging from entire discussion pages to discussion fragments.
- Support for following discussion pages with RSS feeds.
- Flexible post ordering, allowing users to keep track of which threads on a talk page are dead, and which threads are active.
- A modern, AJAX-based interface, that allows users to quickly post and reply to other posts, without clumsy page loading.
- Automatic signatures.
Rationale
Wiki discussion pages have some advantages over web and Usenet forums. They allow use of the entire wiki syntax - from images to wiki links to transclusion. It is possible to refactor entire discussion pages.
Web forums offer a number of advantages over the MediaWiki talk page model:
- Threads can be displayed in different views: flat, nested, sorted by date, subject, etc.
- The user only needs to click a "Reply" button or link in order to respond to a comment. Manual indentation is not required. Quotations from the source comment can be inserted automatically.
- Comments are automatically signed and dated. Avatars are possible.
- The user can watch individual threads or be notified about responses in threads.
- Comments and threads can be displayed individually, without the surrounding page.
- Old comments are archived automatically and invisibly, with permanent links easily available.
- Search for author, subject, date, etc. is possible
- Individual threads can have categories.
- It is relatively easy to manage related discussions in a subject-specific forum, whereas MediaWiki talk pages always follow the "one discussion page per content page" model.
LiquidThreads aims to unite the advantages of both forum types, and to add some unique discussion features to boot.
Summaries
Each thread can have a summary. The aim of this feature is to summarize a discussion up to some point, a summarization is not the end point of the discussion. In fact the summary should be continuously maintained while the discussion proceeds.
Sites that use LiquidThreads
- Wikimini.org (used by children 8–13, all talk pages – Example)
- strategy.wikimedia.org (in places)
- English Wikinews (in places)
- English Wiktionary (in places)
- MediaWiki.org (in places)
- translatewiki.net (all talk pages)
- RationalWiki (in places)
Voting
Support
- Vibhijain (वार्ता) 13:34, 7 जुलाई 2011 (UTC)
- यह ऐक्सटेंशन इन्टरफेस की दृष्टि से काफि महत्त्वपूर्ण है इसलिये मेरा इसे पूर्ण समर्थन, कृपया अन्य लोग भी इसे समर्थन देकर हिन्दी विकि को इस ऐक्सटेशन से लाभान्वित करे। Mayur (talk•Email) 13:35, 7 जुलाई 2011 (UTC)
- बहुत ही अच्छा प्रस्ताव है और मैं इसका पूरा समर्थन करता हूँ। यह वर्तमान चर्चा प्रणाली से कहीं ज़्यादा साफ़ और व्यवस्थित लगता है! हमें इस से बहुत लाभ होगा और चर्चाओं को समझने/बढ़ाने में बहुत मदद मिलेगी। --Hunnjazal (वार्ता) 15:56, 7 जुलाई 2011 (UTC)
- मयूर के साथ काफी जद्दोजहद और उनके बहुमूल्य समय की बर्बादी के बाद इस प्रस्ताव को मेरा समर्थन प्राप्त है। :) -- लवी सिंघल (वार्ता) 18:57, 7 जुलाई 2011 (UTC)
- कालिदास कह गए हैं: पुराणमित्यै न साधुसर्वं....समर्थ को समर्थन! -हेमंत शेष
- "प्रारभ्य उत्तम जना: न परित्यजन्ति।" मैं डॉ०'क्रान्त'एम०एल०वर्मा विकिपीडिया द्वारा प्रस्तावित हिन्दी विस्तार को सार्वजनीन हित मॅ अपना समर्थन अभिव्यक्त करता हूँ।'Krant'M.L.Verma[[Krantmlverma (वार्ता) 03:48, 8 जुलाई 2011 (UTC)]]