LiquidThreads (LQT) is a discussion system for wiki’s talk pages. The project started in 2006 and was improved in 2009 by volunteers, the WMF made some efforts on a v3 in 2011. Nothing more has been done since then. It is still used on 5 wikis:
- enwikinews
- enwiktionary
- huwiki
- ptwikibooks
- svwikisource
- DiscussionTools is used about 18,780 times per day.
- Flow is used about 250 times per day.
- LiquidThreads is used less than once per day.
The work on IP masking requires significant changes for LQT, leading the Growth team to consider sunsetting LQT extensions in favor of Discussion tools -DT).
Of the various solutions we'd like to discuss with the concerned communities, one is to archive or convert LQT pages to DT. The goal is to explain the possible solutions to the communities.
Note: the solution adopted by translatewiki.net was to move the existing pages using LQT as an archive, and start over with DT on the main page: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support/LiquidThreads. LQT is not uninstalled.
Possible related tasks:
- T89426: Allow to uninstall all LiquidThreads code except the parts necessary for the remaining content, to be moved into (?)WikimediaMessages
- T107068: Prevent people from creating new LQT pages on wikis that have converted LQT to Flow
Acceptance criteria
- The technical feasibility of simply disabling LQT is shared with @KStoller-WMF and @Trizek-WMF (AKA what would happen if we simply disabled LQT)
- The technical feasibility of archiving LQT boards is shared with @KStoller-WMF and @Trizek-WMF
- The technical feasibility of converting LQT boards is shared with @KStoller-WMF and @Trizek-WMF
- Feasibilities are documented at mediawiki.org relevant page(s). -- @Trizek-WMF