=== Context
**Situation**
In January 2020, the Editing Team will start deploying interventions as part of the [Talk pages project](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project). The first of which will be an improved workflow for replying to specific comments on talk pages, across namespaces: [Talk pages project/replying](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/replying).
Later in Q3 (January - March, 2020), the Editing Team also plans to deploy an improved workflow for starting new discussions on talk pages, across namespaces. See this task: T233446 (to be completed in Jan., 2020).
As part of these deployments, the team would like to log talk page and talk page-related events to help understand the impact of these interventions.
**Complication**
Trouble is, we are not yet sure where the best place is to log these events. Should they be stored in EditAttemptStep? Should a new talk page or communication-specific schema be created? Is there another option that has not yet been discussed?
This ticket is intended to represent the work with answering this question: //Where should talk page and talk page-related events be logged?//
The beginnings of a document that contains some thoughts David L. surfaced in chat can be found here: [Talk pages/schema](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tl4l0RTaMKdASJz2twGnBfrF1h63K2KmkwygEavLoXQ/edit#)
=== "Open questions"
- [ ] Where should full talk page editing events live? In EditAttemptStep? In the new schema? Some other
- [ ] If we proceed with introducing a new schema, what are the different schema those events should be sent to?
- [ ] What is the relationship between new schema and EditAttemptStep?
=== "Done"
- [ ] Resolve the "Open questions"
- [ ] Determine what schema should be used to log the //existing// full page talk page editing events
- [ ] Determine what schema should be used to log the new DiscussionTools-related talk page events
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=== References
//Relevant links//
**Replying | [wiki/Talk_pages_project/replying](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/replying)**
- Prototype: [replying prototype](https://visualeditor-prototype.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Reply_test)
- Measurement plan (draft): [OWC/Measurement Plan/Replying](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1og1d-PXg2E4kR_xMq8wxtFcVY3sVqWhUxkM3X4-ACrQ/edit#)
**Starting a new discussion | //project page to be created//**
- Prototype: //planed for Feb. - Mar., 2020//
- Measurement plan: //planed for Feb. - Mar., 2020//