Flow/Prior discussion-thread-roundup

A brief roundup I made, whilst re-reading through the archives.

[Note: This is partially for my own benefit, so that I can find things easily without having to search 2 wikis and multiple subpages; and partially for the community's benefit, to prove that I am actually passing these ideas along to the devs!

However, a lot of my job seems to consist of communicating these issues via: email, webcam-meetings, IRC, bugzilla, and mingle cards, so it's not always going to be obvious that I've passed along specific details. I won't promise to keep this list uptodate and canonical, especially because most of these threads are about the pre-pre-pre-prototypes and abstract notes and other confusion. I will be doing my damnedest in the background though, to read everything twice, and nudge the crucial/critical/interesting details along to where they're needed and will be seen. I have been doing so for the past few weeks, and will (hopefully) continue for the next few months/years!] –Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:49, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Design Density (horizontal (fixedwidth) and vertical (padding))

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Design FAQ
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 5
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Interactive prototype
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Flow is too tall
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Header prominence
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Flow wastes too much space (2)
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/My two cents
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Interface wastes to much space, doesn't fit into Wikipedia
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Too much stuff?
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/lnteractive Prototype/Problems with the spacing
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/lnteractive Prototype/Looks great

Indenting Levels

 * Flow Portal/Design/FAQ
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1

Table Of Contents / Collapsing Threads

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Design FAQ
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 6
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (54)

Thread Order

 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Why the reordering of topic discussions?

Interface Wording

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2

Post Layout

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2

Design Terminology (Board Vs Talk)

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1

Conflicting Permissions (cross-board, cross-wiki)

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1

Editing Someone Else's Post - Permissions

 * Flow Portal/Editing comments
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 5
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Comments protection
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/lnteractive Prototype/Editing?

Post Moderation

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3

Archives

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Existing pages and FLOW

Bots

 * Note: Bots already use the API, so many updates should be easy. Notes for that, and for edge cases, and related suggestions are here:


 * https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/74 (All Flow actions and information available via API )
 * Flow Portal/Bots
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (8) and Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (38) suggest "sticky" posts

Search

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3

Edit Conflicts

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Is anyone in the process of responding?

Scratchpads

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Unstructered section vs. Unstructured sections (plural!)
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Subpage scratchpads?

Splitting Threads

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2

Accessibility (Incl. javascript concerns)

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Accessibility: JavaScript, screen readers, slow connections, etc.

Workflows

 * Tech notes:
 * Flow Portal/Use cases
 * Flow Portal/User to User Discussions
 * Flow Portal/Workflow Description Module
 * Flow Portal/Welcome Module
 * Flow Portal/Block Module
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 5
 * mw:Talk:Requests for comment/Workflow
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Workflows
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Numbered lists
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Talkpagespace using administrative processes

Voting

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 5

Tags

 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Thread tags
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving

Multitopic

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * w:Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 108
 * w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 112
 * w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 114
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Warning levels detection
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/I liked it a lot - here's why
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Visuals in updated prototype - anywhere close to final FLOW?/reply (2)

Why Do We Need It

 * w:Wikipedia:Flow
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Community consent?

Community engagement

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 5
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4

Wikitext Vs. Visualeditor

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3 - Examples/Conclusion
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2#WMF intends for...
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Maths
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Wikiformat in threads
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/What about all the nice things Wikitext offers us? Will they be available in Flow?
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Markup-mode *needed* in editor

Miscellaneous

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1 (Ballooning page counts)

Subpages

 * Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Talk subpages