This extension
comes with MediaWiki 1.40and above. Thus you do not have to download it again. However, you still need to follow the other instructions provided.
The Discussion Tools extension is a set of tools to enhance discussion pages. As of 2024, it is being built by the Editing team as part of the talk pages project .
User documentation is at Help:DiscussionTools .
Some features can be disabled on individual pages and sections as described at Help:DiscussionTools/Magic words and markup .
DiscussionTools
folder to your extensions/
directory.cd extensions/ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools
wfLoadExtension( 'DiscussionTools' );
html5
.$wgDiscussionToolsEnable
true
Enable DiscussionTools on talk pages. $wgDiscussionToolsBeta
false
Make DiscussionTools a beta feature . $wgDiscussionToolsEnable2017Wikitext
false
Enable the 2017 wikitext editor for wikitext replies (not yet supported). $wgDiscussionToolsEnablePermalinksBackend
true
Enable the permalinks backend (Special:GoToComment). See Extension:DiscussionTools/How it works#Permanent links. $wgDiscussionToolsReplyIndentation
'invisible'
Reply indentation syntax to use: 'invisible'
(use <dl><dd>
tags to output :
in wikitext) or 'bullet'
(use <ul><li>
tags to output *
in wikitext). $wgDiscussionToolsShowFeedbackLinks
false
MW 1.40+ Show "Share feedback about this feature" links in the footer of reply tool and new topic tool. $wgDiscussionToolsConflictingGadgetName
'convenientDiscussions'
Internal name of the Convenient Discussions gadget, which conflicts with the reply tool. Reply tool will be unavailable when the user has this gadget enabled. Action Human readable Description Internal? discussiontoolscompare compare Get information about comment changes between two page revisions. internal discussiontoolsedit edit Post a message on a discussion page. discussiontoolsfindcomment find comment Find a comment by its ID or name. discussiontoolspageinfo page info Returns metadata required to initialize the discussion tools. internal discussiontoolspreview preview Preview a message on a discussion page. internal Action Human readable Description Internal? discussiontoolsgetsubscriptions get subscriptions Get the subscription statuses of given topics. discussiontoolssubscribe subscribe Subscribe (or unsubscribe) to receive notifications about a topic.
Integration with other extensions[edit]
DiscussionTools can integrate with PlaceNewSection to put the location of where added new topics will begin to be placed.
It can also integrate with AutoModerator to enable community-configured reversion of Machine Language-scored bad edits.
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