Topic on Extension talk:StructuredDiscussions

Suggestion:Change flow topic display title to match topic title

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Summary by Trizek (WMF)
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Issue

Currently info pages such as https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Tuxqtxu1kp6n1m1q&action=info use the same displaytitle as the sort key. Aside from not reflecting reality, it makes searching for flow titles a mess, see topic%3A+contentmodel%3Aflow-board .

Background

While searching for thread posts might never be possible, it would be at least useful to be able to search prior discussions by title. This only works with structureddiscussions boards but not threads, e.g. it is possible to find this board "Extension_talk:StructuredDiscussions" but not a thread like Topic:Ukzjwfa58ewp4zm6 without knowing the whole strange id.

Proposed solution

  1. Add displaytitle (Help:Magic words#DISPLAYTITLE) in each thread as its thread title, e.g. :Topic:Ukzjwfa58ewp4zm6 -> displaytitle: "Issues with StructuredDiscussions" .
  2. This will presumably be shown in search once this task (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143396) is resolved.
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