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Plan to disable Flow on Enwiki
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The team has improved the Flow-to-wikitext conversion script:

  • All comment signatures now use the timestamp of the comment's creation, rather than that of its most recent edit
  • A commented edited only by its creator is not flagged as such, but the re-export will change its timestamp to the creation timestamp per the above
  • A comment created by A then edited by B and C is now signed "A [timestamp] (Edited by B, C)", whereas previously it was just signed "C [timestamp]" (with no mention of the original creator!)
  • If a topic title was edited by anyone other than the creator of the topic, "(Topic title edited by B, C)" will be added right below the header.
  • There's something similar in place for board descriptions.

The plan is to:

  • Overwrite [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Breakfast]] with the re-exported wikitext
  • Move [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hampshire]] to [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hampshire/Flow archive]] and edit/protect accordingly
  • Recreate [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hampshire]] with the exported wikitext
  • Ditto #2 and #3 for [[Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page]]
  • Check everything one last time
  • Delete the archived Flow boards
  • Check if this deleted all of the pages in the Topic namespace (there are 388 of them currently); if not, batch-delete them
  • Schedule the extension uninstall in a SWAT window

Explanation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow#Flow_removed_from_Enwiki_for_now

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Why are we disabling flow on enwiki?

Change 319761 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Disable Flow on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319761

Change 319761 merged by jenkins-bot:
Disable Flow on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319761

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-11-04T00:48:20Z] <catrope@tin> Synchronized dblists/: Disable Flow on enwiki (T148611) (duration: 01m 04s)

Change 319772 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Don't register flow-thank when Flow is not installed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319772

Change 319773 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Don't register flow-thank when Flow is not installed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319773

Change 319773 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't register flow-thank when Flow is not installed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319773

Does this mean that T96301 has been resolved?

Change 319772 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't register flow-thank when Flow is not installed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319772

Catrope claimed this task.

Yeah, this was done on Nov 7, we forgot to close it.

Huh, wow. I guess we're taking the "you can't fire me, I quit!" approach with Flow. This task is another strong piece of evidence that Flow is dead. (Have the perfunctory protestations regarding Flow's demise finally stopped?)