Help:Structured Discussions

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Glossary Quick tour with most important points including posting and editing. Documentation (on one page ) Activation Topics Notifications and watchlist Permalinks Administration Preloading Keyboard shortcuts Known problems (and how to solve them)
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Structured Discussions (formerly known as Flow) are a project of the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a modern discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects.

Quick tour

How Structured Discussions look - Try it!

Discover on one page why we built Structured Discussions, and how to use it:

• editing basics,
• post an answer (to the global discussion or to a specific person in a global conversation),
• create a discussion,
• watch a topic or a whole board,
• get notifications,
• browse and archive subjects.

There is some specific terms concerning Structured Discussions. They have been defined in the Glossary.

Structured Discussions are not working for you? Please check if you can solve that problem.

Advanced tools

Some advanced tools are available, for specific purposes. They have been regrouped on these subjects:

Activation

What happens when Structured Discussions are enabled on a page?

Topics

Filter topics, Edit a topic/message, Summarize a topic, Resolve a topic

Permalinks

How to create links to subjects

Notifications and watchlist

The notifications you receive and the different inputs in watchlists

History

How the history system works

Administration

Hide, Delete, Suppress topics

Preloading

Preloading contents on a new Structured Discussions conversation

Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts to use on visual editing mode.

All documentation on one page.