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
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Flow&diff=588494678&oldid=588457872 New skin idea]
 * 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
 * Threading
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 8
 * Thread structure of Flow needs improvement
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 6 <-- This one in particular
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 1
 * Threading 02 May 2014
 * Threading 12 Jun 2014
 * Multiple threading levels 07 Mar 2014
 * Thread structure of Flow needs improvement 05 Mar 2014
 * bug 59230 - missing thread depth setting

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)
 * Contents table 19 Jun 2014
 * Where's the table of contents? 17 Jun 2014
 * Needs some refinement 28 May 2014
 * Table of content 21 May 2014

Thread Order

 * w:User:Hhhippo/Flow
 * 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
 * The DOs and DONTs of moderation in Flow (see also the talk page)

Archives

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow
 * 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 and infinite scroll

 * mw:Talk:Flow Infinite scroll is seriously annoying
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Design FAQ
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 7
 * w:Wikipedia:Flow/FAQ
 * Flow/Functional Specifications/Search and Filter
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 6
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Design FAQ
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Design FAQ
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 3

Edit Conflicts

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 4
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * Scratchpad list: Workflows

Voting

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 5

Tags

 * Topic tagging
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Thread tags
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving
 * Flow/Basic information (Old brainstorming)

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

Dates and timestamps

 * Signatures and timestamps and other
 * Extension:Flow (CLDR)
 * mw:Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Comment format
 * (tangential w:Wikipedia talk:Notifications/Archive_5)

Signatures and avatars

 * User talk:Jorm (WMF)
 * Flow Portal/FAQ
 * Flow Portal/Research (2 small mentions)
 * Flow Portal/Research/User Test Data (many small mentions)
 * w:Wikipedia_talk:Flow/Archive_4
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Design FAQ (a few comments)
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Interactive prototype
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 2
 * Flow/Avatars (all by Isarra atm.)
 * Thread:Talk:Flow/Avatars (particularly the last post)
 * DO NOT do avatars! Stupid idea (we should focus on discussion content). Thanks. --Gryllida 22:26, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I concur with Gryllida. → Σ τ c . 22:27, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Edit summaries

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 7
 * ee-flow:Edit summaries
 * mingle:Add context to watchlist entries
 * Quiddity, Card 634 does not exist.! --Gryllida

Unread posts

 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive_6
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive_6
 * w:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive_7
 * ee-flow:How will I find out whether you reply?
 * ee-flow:Hello world!

Titlebar info

 * Topic bar: potential lack of need in nick and time
 * Huge headers

Permalinks and internal links

 * en:Wikipedia talk:Flow
 * en:Wikipedia talk:Flow
 * Internal link to a thread
 * Permalinks
 * Flow/Functional Specifications/Boards and Topics

Watchlist contents

 * See also 


 * trello and mingle
 * Watchlist
 * en:Wikipedia talk:Flow/Archive 8