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Nomenclature
The following nomenclature is used in this document to avoid confusion. This nomenclature is development-facing, not user-facing, and terms may change when visible to the user.


 * Board - a collection of Subscriptions. There may be only one Board per page. You can view any page's Board at Special:Flow/Some_page_name.
 * Occupy - a wiki can specify certain pages and namespaces whose Flow boards should take them over, or "occupy" them. For example, several projects' Talk pages, or all User_talk pages.
 * Header - content at the top of a Board (introductory text and such). There are/will be limitations on what can go in the header.
 * Subscription - the "connective tissue" between a Board and a Topic.
 * Topic - a "workflow instance". In the discussion space, this is a single discussion.  This document concerns itself primarily with discussion workflows; however it should be noted that workflow instances can take many forms.  Topics may be subscribed to by multiple Boards.
 * Summary - a Topic can be summarized. Other workflows might be more elaborate, e.g. "Closed. Answer #7 to this question was accepted by the originator on 2013-10-15".
 * Post - an atomic reply, comment, or object whose parent is a Topic.
 * Comment - synonymous with Post.
 * Reply - a child Post of another Post. In the October prototype, there is only one level of replies and these are called "Tangents".
 * Branch - a series of Posts that are all ultimately children of a single Post.
 * MVP - an acronym standing for "Minimum Viable Product".