I recommend we do it properly. I don't think it's that complicated. I've outlined a proposed approach. We need to prioritize it appropriately, though: T154830: Transwiki (within a farm) support for Flow dumps/imports

There is a hack approach (this messes up the board on Meta, but this is not much of an issue if Flow is disabled, since then it's messed up anyway): Manually update the DB to reassign the workflows to mediawikiwiki, then delete the now-broken page from Meta (either UI deletion or obliterating it).

However, we would also need to fix the user IDs (either properly map them or use user_ip instead, see T119249). If we mapped them, it would require a half-script.

I left a relevant comment at T63729#2963875.

Considering this Flow board was enabled without consensus, I don't think this should necessarily block T63729: Remove Flow from Meta-Wiki. If fixing this requires more than a few days, I suggest that we proceed with the disabling and that the data be recovered from the database.

@Nemo_bis, that would be disruptive. What harm does it cause to leave this one Flow board enabled "for a few days" while we work out how to transfer?

In T154816#2979552, @Halfak wrote:

@Nemo_bis, that would be disruptive. What harm does it cause to leave this one Flow board enabled "for a few days" while we work out how to transfer?

Is there a status update on this task?

This is scheduled for 2 PM Pacific today.

Done. I didn't do initSiteStats.php, since it's just one page and I don't know if there are any caveats about this in production. Someone could run it now, or if they do in the future it will be picked up.

The page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:ORES_paper has been moved to mw:Talk:ORES/Paper

• the search for Talk:ORES/Paper on metawiki will find to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:ORES_paper
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:ORES_paper displays interwiki redirects template; the displayed link (mw:Talk:ORES/Paper) will correctly redirects to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES/Paper
• the Flow board on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES/Paper has all functionality of Flow board
• 'View history' for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES/Paper has history log imported; from the beginning when the flow board was created (in the original place on metawiki) on 19 December 2016 up to when it was moved to mediawiki at 22:58 on 22 February 2017

QA recommendation: Resolve.

Thank you for getting this resolved!