Extension:LiquidThreads

The LiquidThreads (LQT) extension implements a precursor threaded discussion page system. ALPHABLOCKS NUMBERBLOCKS COLOURBLOCKS COMMUNITY FANDOM FAN CENTRAL BETA GAMES ANIME MOVIES TV VIDEO WIKIS START A WIKI 24 Landonmathewclark17 Numberblocks Wiki Learningblocks Wiki 1,143 PAGES ALPHABLOCKS NUMBERBLOCKS COLOURBLOCKS COMMUNITY in: Protected, Numberblocks Characters, Non-physical Numberblocks, and 14 more Orders of Magnitude VIEW SOURCE 45D66C80-65B9-4623-B0E9-73E219B2B8C6.png	No one may edit! This page is currently protected. Reason(s): don't add orders that are greater than one billion

In General One Ten One Hundred One Thousand Ten Thousand One Hundred Thousand One Million Ten Million One Hundred Million One Billion One Billion

Debut What If? Latest Appearance What If? Pronouns TBA, but most likely female Number (in blocks) 1,000,000,000 blocks Factorization '"`UNIQ--postMath-00000006-QINU`"' Voiced by TBA, but most likely Beth Chalmers One Billion, or 1,000,000,000, is a Numberblock made up of 1,000,000,000 blocks. She is the biggest Numberblock so far.

Appearance She resembles One, but a billion times larger.

Trivia She is one of seven cube Numberblocks to be canon. She is currently the only 9th power to be figured-out, besides One. Before 1974, this Numberblock's name could have been either "One Thousand Million", or the almost-archaic name "One Milliard". Due to the UK using the short scale since 1974, and due to Numberblocks releasing 43 years after the UK adopted the short scale, this Numberblock is called "One Billion". In the Indian numbering system, One Billion is called "One Arab" or "One Hundred Crore". She has the most factors out of all the Numberblocks so far, with 100 factors. In the video “36 Minutes of the Biggest Numberblocks ever!”, she mistakenly had a "trillion" Numberling.

History
The original code was developed by David McCabe under sponsorship from the Google Summer of Code 2006, the Commonwealth of Learning, and. However, David McCabe is no longer involved with this project.

The original LiquidThreads code was substantially improved and augmented by Andrew Garrett at the Wikimedia Foundation since May 2009. The latest stable release of the LiquidThreads extension is LQT 2.0, described on this page. LQT 2.0 is the version currently being used on several Wikimedia wikis, and was used in the strategic planning process.

In January 2011, work on was begun at the Wikimedia Foundation. LQT 3.0 was being developed, with Andrew Garrett as the lead developer, but is now suspended. Development of LQT3 can be tracked in this branch; the last commits to LQT3 (lqt-updates) branch were in September 2011. Development by the Foundation has been discontinued.

User documentation
To activate LiquidThreads on a specific page on a wiki where LiquidThreads is opt-in, add the following to the page's source code:

. To deactivate LiquidThreads on a specific page on a wiki where LiquidThreads is opt-out add the following to the page's source code:


 *  and
 *  page.

Comprehensive user documentation will be developed when LiquidThreads has a finalised (or remotely stable) interface.

Rationale
Wiki discussion pages have some advantages over web and Usenet forums: But web forums offer many more advantages over the MediaWiki talk page model: LiquidThreads aims to unite the advantages of both forum types, and to add some unique discussion features to boot.
 * They allow use of the entire wiki syntax, from images to links to transclusions.
 * It is possible to refactor entire discussion pages.
 * Threads can be displayed in different views: flat, nested, sorted by date, subject, etc.
 * The user only needs to click a "Reply" button or link in order to respond to a comment. Manual indentation is not required. Quotations from the source comment can be inserted automatically.
 * Comments are automatically signed and dated.
 * Avatars are possible (but not yet created).
 * The user can watch individual threads or be notified about responses in threads.
 * Comments and threads can be displayed individually, without the surrounding page.
 * Old comments are archived automatically and invisibly, with permanent links easily available.
 * Search for author, subject, date, etc. is possible
 * Individual threads can have categories.
 * It is relatively easy to manage related discussions in a subject-specific forum, whereas MediaWiki talk pages always follow the "one discussion page per subject page" model.
 * There can be restrictions on which users can edit other users' posts.

Installation
Prerequisites: LiquidThreads currently requires the WikiEditor extension to be already installed. See task 38654. To be able to properly search threads, must also be installed from Wikimedia's operations/debs/lucene-search-2.git repository.

Some individuals may not have command prompt access. However, if you have access through phpMyAdmin, substitute these steps for step #4 above:
 * Installing without command prompt access


 * 1) Download lqt.sql.
 * 2) In phpMyAdmin, click the database you're using for mediawiki along the left side
 * 3) On the next screen, click the "SQL" tab at the top.
 * 4) At "Location of the text file", choose one of the files, select compression "None", and click the bottom "Go" button.
 * If your phpMyAdmin screen has only a text field and no text file chooser, click the "SQL" button in the left-side column, under the phpMyAdmin logo, and click the "import files" tab in the new window that opens.
 * If you encounter the error message, abbreviate line 35 of lqt.sql to   (in other words, remove  ). Remove the new tables and import the file again.
 * If your database uses table prefixes, you have to add them manually. You can do so after the new tables have been created.

Configuration
This is the default configuration of the extension. You can override such values in LocalSettings.php:

API
API documentation