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Is it possible to access the discussion contributions from the wiki after removal of LQT?

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Kappa~mediawikiwiki (talkcontribs)

I am wondering whether it is possible to find the discussion page created with LQT in the wiki after LQT has been removed from LocalSettings.php. In the DB I still can find a page with the name "Talk:SamplePage/Contribution1" in namespace 90 in the "page" table. If I follow the keys from the "page" table to the "revision" table and then to the "text" table, I also find the text of the contribution. I did however not succeed in finding the contribution in the wiki after removing LQT. If LQT is included in the wiki, the "show permalink" option renders the following permalink for the contribution: "Theme:Talk:SamplePage/Contribution1". As long as LQT is included, this link actually leads to the contribution. As soon as LQT is removed, the link however leads to a non-existing page. Does anybody have an idea, how to solve this problem?

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Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

It's "Theme:Talk:SamplePage/Contribution1" or "Thread:Talk:SamplePage/Contribution1"? It should probably be the second.

I guess the problem is the Thread: namespace that creates LQT, that is no longer present when not installed. You could try defining the Thread: namespace again in LocalSettings.php and you may be able to access messagess as individual pages, although I haven't tested it.

Kappa~mediawikiwiki (talkcontribs)

Great! Defining the namespace in LocalSettings.php works fine. Thank you very much for your quick and helpful answer. By the way: in the German version the namespace name is "Thema", but using "Thread" as namespace name in LocalSettings.php also works fine for other languages.

define("NS_THREAD",90);
define("NS_THREAD_TALK",91);
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_THREAD] = "Thread";
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_THREAD_TALK] = "Thread_Talk";

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Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

Can you make screenshots?

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

screenshots of what?

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

Of how things look after removing LQT

Kappa~mediawikiwiki (talkcontribs)

I don' have a screenshot, but I can describe what happens: all contributions appear on pages of their own (pages and subpages, depending on the previous nesting). The look-and-feel of a thread on one page will be lost, but the texts of the individual contributions are saved.

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