Help:Structured Discussions

Flow is Flow>Special:MyLanguage/Flow|a project of the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a modern discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects.

Quick tour


Discover on one page why we built Flow, 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 and browse and archive subjects.

There is some specific terms concerning Flow. They have been defined in nomenclature>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Flow/Glossary|the Glossary.

Flow is not working for you? Please check problems>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Flow/Known problems|if you can solve that problem.

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



What happens when Flow is enabled on a page?

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

How to create links to subjects

How the history system works

Hide, Delete, Suppress topics

Preloading contents on a new Flow conversation

Keyboard shortcuts to use on visual editing mode.