Wikimore

Various extensions and tools have emerged over the years to improve the support MediaWiki offers people to communicate with one another on-wiki: Structured Discussions (Flow), LiquidThreads , Narzędzia dyskusji and Convenient Discussions.

This page offers an overview of these various extensions and how the features they offer compare to one another.

Comparative Review

Status of each tool, and their integration to the wiki's key features.

	LiquidThreads	Structured Discussions	Narzędzia dyskusji	Convenient Discussions
Type of tool	MediaWiki extension			Gadget/Userscript based on DiscussionTools
Release status	Unmaintained		Maintained (Wikimedia Foundation)	Maintained (Volunteers)
Activation	Pending removal^[1]		Deployed on all wikis as the default discussion system.^[2] User configurable (including opting-out).	User opt-in and configurable
Visual editing	Nie	Tak	Tak	Nie
Backwards-compatibility with wikitext	Nie	Nie	Tak	Tak
Templates support	Tak	Tak	Częściowo – Tables, templates and parser tags aren't allowed in replies in visual mode	Tak
Full history integration with the rest of the wiki	Tak	Nie	Tak	Tak
Mobile web support	Nie	Tak	Tak	Nie
Mobile app support	Nie	Nie	Tak	Nie
Permalink to a given comment	Tak	Tak	Tak – if the signature of the comment is not altered.^[3]

Interaction with talk pages and other comments.

	LiquidThreads	Structured Discussions	Narzędzia dyskusji	Convenient Discussions
Dedicated workflow for starting a new topic	Tak	Tak	Tak	Tak
Topic and contents preload	Tak	Tak	Tak	Tak
Indication of new comments when you read a topic	Nie	Nie	Tak	Tak
Indication of edited comments when you read a topic	Tak	Tak	Nie	Tak
Each conversation has a permalink	Tak	Tak – Each topic is a different page.	Tak – By linking to the topic heading, or by using the first comment's permalink.^[3]	Tak^[3]
Move topics between pages	Tak	Nie – planned but not implemented	Tak – via wikitext editing; title and signature mustn't be altered during the move.^[3]	Tak
Include discussions on another page and reply to them there	Nie	Nie – planned, including cross-wiki transclusion , but not implemented	Tak – via transclusion
Editing comments	Tak	Tak	Częściowo – via wikitext editing the whole page or section. See T242562 and T245225 for the editing of individual comments.	Tak
Thank a comment from within the talk page	Częściowo – via Page history	Tak	Częściowo – via Thanks in Page history. W trakcie – Work on supporting "Thanking" from the DiscussionTools UI is being tracked.	Tak
Sort topics by recent comment	Tak	Tak	Nie	Nie
Sort topics by start date	Tak	Tak	Nie	Nie
Summarize a discussion at the top of it	Tak	Tak	Częściowo – by editing opening comment.
Mark a message as read or unread	Tak	Nie	Nie	Nie
Show/hide (collapse) subthreads	Tak	Nie	Nie	Tak

	LiquidThreads	Structured Discussions	Narzędzia dyskusji	Convenient Discussions
Highlight a set of unread comments	Nie	Tak	Tak – only when subscribed to a topic and using links from notifications	Tak
Subscribe to be notified about new comments to a topic	Tak – via Watchlist	Tak – via Echo		Tak – via Echo or itself
Be notified when a new topic is started on a talk page	Tak – via Watchlist	Tak – via Echo		Tak – via Echo or itself
Auto-subscription to a topic you created	Tak – default
Highlight a quoted comment	Nie – can link to comments but only as standalone pages	Tak	Tak	Tak
Notification of edited comments	Częściowo – only on your own comments	Tak	Nie	Nie

	LiquidThreads	Structured Discussions	Narzędzia dyskusji	Convenient Discussions
Direct access to user talkpage, contribs and more	Częściowo – if linked in the signature	Tak	Częściowo – if linked in the signature
Hide (moderate) a comment	Częściowo – no undelete UI	Tak	Częściowo – via undo/rollback (requires searching for edit in edit history) or archival templates, not included and requires editing wikitext	Tak
Hide or delete a topic	Częściowo – no undelete UI	Tak		Częściowo – same as DiscussionTools
Archiving discussions	Not needed	Not needed	Nie – see T337293 Requires 3rd party bots for automatic archival Requires wikitext editing or 3rd party gadgets for manual archival	Nie – Same as DiscussionTools, though moving topics can be used for manual archival.
Report an inappropriate comment	Nie	Nie	W trakcie^[4]	Nie

↑ phab:T332022
↑ A few wikis have Flow as the default discussion system.
1 2 3 4 DiscussionTools has its own system of permalinks based on signatures. Convenient Discussions can auto-generate links for this system as well as PermanentLinks to the current revision.
↑ T339247 – Create entry points for the Incident Report dialog with DiscussionTools