Manual:Discussions

MediaWiki provides a discussion page for each content page in the wiki. This allows users to coordinate any questions, changes or ideas regarding a wiki page "behind the scenes". BlueSpice 4 has a slightly different discussions concept which does not use the actual talk page content, but relies on the extension BlueSpiceSocialTopics instead.

Configuration

Administrators should check the setting for automatic Talk-page creation. To provide a seamless user experience, the setting "Automatically create all discussion pages" should be activated in the Config manager. This ensures that a user is not redirected to the talk page first for saving it to the wiki before the actual discussion topic can be created.

Automatic talk page creation needs to be activated.

Adding a discussion topic

Discussions about a page are listed directly below the page content on the wiki page itself.

When a user starts the first discussion topic for the page, the wiki still generates a corresponding "Talk"-page. This means that when the first discussion is added to the page Main Page, the page Talk:Main_Page is also created. It shows the same discussion topics that are shown below the page content itself. Because of this duplication, the BlueSpice 4 skin Discovery does not show a direct link to the discussion page anywhere on the content page. (If a link should be shown on pages in a specific namespace for example, this could be achieved with the extension HeaderFooter).

Configuration

To create the first discussion topic on a page:

1. Click the + button in the Discussion area at the end of the page. This opens the talk page.
2. f Start a new topic....
3. content
5. 

   add a discussion topic

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