Help:Forums

The Forum feature provided a central location for discussion about the topic of a wiki and other matters important to the community. Any user could participate in a Forum conversation. The overall structure of the Forum is managed by the community's administrators/moderators.

In the default installation, the main page of the forum contains an index of all sub-forums. Each sub-forum is a page that contains an index of the conversation threads that belong to that particular forum. Conversation threads are put in sub-forums via using categories.

The default main page is named "Forum:Index". There are two default sub-forums: "Forum:Help desk" (for help topics) and "Forum:Watercooler" (for discussing the wiki). You can customize your sub-forums with different names, or add additional sub-forums.

How do I use the forums?

Conversation threads are listed in the sub-forums. Each forum has an input box that allows you to type a title for a new conversation thread and press a button to create it.

The new thread is an ordinary wiki page, and it is preloaded with a template. This template ensures that the page has the correct category for indexing in the corresponding forum. It is important that you do not delete this template when you write your message.

How do I add new sub-forums?

Small communities may not need sub-forums other than "Help Desk" and "Watercooler", but as your community grows you may want to add new ones to address particular topics.

Step 1

A new forum can be added by editing Forum:Index on your community.

Step 2

The next step is to create a template called Template:Forumheader. If this template is already created, skip this step.

Step 3

The last thing to do is to set up a template to be loaded when someone adds a page to the new forum.

And You are done!

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