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This site is the test bed for LiquidThreads, MediaWiki's new next-generation discussion system. The system is also currently live-tested on specific Strategy Planning talk pages (e.g. Village pump) and selected Wikimedia projects.

Testing LiquidThreads
Try using Talk:LiquidThreads testing. Note that you can sign in with your regular Wikipedia account here, you don't have to sign up for another account again.

Basic tasks:

 * Post a discussion
 * Respond to somebody else's posts.
 * Edit somebody else's comment.
 * Move the discussion to a new page.
 * Split discussions into pieces.
 * Stitch them back together again.
 * Summarize threads.
 * Watch threads, and wait for notifications on the replies.

Other testing:

 * Try it in weird browsers and report display and functionality issues (with screenshots) on bugzilla.
 * Use weird HTML inside LiquidThreads and report code that breaks threads so the developers can fix it.

Known bugs:

 * Adding closing div tags without an opening tag can break threads.
 * Moving pages of threads to the Threadtalk: namespace causes them to become unavailable.

Feedback

 * Leave comments on Feedback, or submit bugs to bugzilla (mentioned there).
 * See Announcements to find out what has changed in the code of LiquidThreads.

Miscellaneous

 * If you want administrator rights to test deleting and undeleting threads, and what-not, ask at Rights requests.
 * This place is to test out LiquidThreads only. Test edits on this wiki totally not related to LiquidThreads, except in the User namespace, is not allowed.

About LiquidThreads
LiquidThreads replaces discussion pages with actual forums, giving the following benefits:
 * A clear, simplified post/reply workflow so new users can jump right into the discussion.
 * Simple management of threads, including automation of archival, refactoring, and other tasks currently undertaken by bots and humans.
 * A powerful, flexible notification system, allowing users to keep abreast of developments in areas in which they are interested, ranging from entire discussion pages to discussion fragments.
 * Support for following discussion pages with RSS feeds.
 * Flexible post ordering, allowing users to keep track of which threads on a talk page are dead, and which threads are active.
 * A modern, AJAX-based interface, that allows users to quickly post and reply to other posts, without clumsy page loading.
 * Automatic signatures.