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Liquid thread: Summary does not appear on the thread
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Description

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open a support thread
  2. Summarize it by entering a summary
  3. Save

Actual Results:

Expect the summary to appear on the thread.

Expected Results:

I don't see the summary appear on the thread.

More information:

I've summarized this thread here - https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Username_change_(5) with the summary here - https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Summary:Support/Username_change_(5)_(3), but it doesn't appear on the thread.

Summary seemed to have worked around 22nd Dec, last year at this time: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Summary:Support/Request_to_enable_localization_for_Ghotuo,_as_per_Translatewiki.net_languages

Event Timeline

abi_ renamed this task from Liquid thread: Summarizing is not working to Liquid thread: Summary does not appear on the thread.Feb 13 2020, 7:46 AM

Relatedly, preview is also broken (it navigates to a back that doesn't exist and throws away the post content).

Maintenance of LiquidThread seems to have been abandonned since long. So this bug is unlikely to be solved soon.

Wikimedia also considers deprecating that extension, and seeks for another working solution. Various talking tools have been tested and used on various wikis, without more success in their maintenance. May be it's time to Wikimedia to think about refreshing their solutions for talk pages and get some threaded talk support, maintained directly as part of MediaWiki (even if its installation and activation remains optional), and then place old threads on archives when restarting with a new system (with non-conflicting page/subpage names and appropriaet authorizations and preferences that are consistant with users' preferences and permissions).

But existing talk pages are not ready to be deprecated soon as it is an essential "container" for other projects, not just discussions, but also votes, QA tools, and even for the content classification (e.g. with some "Data:" namespace, used in Wikimedia Commons, that still does not permit any sort of classification of the associated topic page (which does not support the MediaWiki syntax or any custom modification of the content-model) into categories.

Another reason why it will persist is that talk pages allows things that various regular users are unable to do when using talk page extensions (that require other permissions for creating or editing subpages, so that only regular MediaWiki talk pages is the only working solution). As well LiquidThread does not work with most Mediawiki content management and archiving solutions, and does not benefit from efforts made to make the UI accessible (to users or limited devices, including with normal support of i18n).