Background
This project's background goal is to prepare the ground for Temp accounts, as Flow and LiquidThreads won't be converted to use temp accounts.
A few communities continue to use Flow as a talk page messaging, even after T346108 was completed.
- It is used as a community talk pages or project pages.
- It is used at single users talk pages
In both cases, the activity can be from zero messages for decades to busy places. Some pages aren't archived as they are abandoned, while busy places are often not archived as users need assistance.
Two wikis concentrate the highest activity: French Wikipedia and Mediawikiwiki.
Other wikis listed at T350073 have to be informed as well.
The option we offered to communities is to put Flow boards on sub-pages, so that traffic there would fade-out, progressively. This should be done as early as possible at most active boards.
Deadline
Temp accounts team is looking for a rollout before the end of Q1.
The Editing team will have set all Flow board in read-only mode at this time, and archive all pages as sub-pages if not yet done.
Conversion of Flow pages to Wikitext will be performed later.
Steps
- T366260: Identify communities that use Extension:StructuredDiscussions as their default talk pages system
- allow these wikis to have a wikitext option for talk pages
- set a firm date for the read-only mode
- inform communities that the read-only mode will happen at date, and that we can provide assistance in moving pages
- French Wikipedia (Forum des nouveaux T366261)
- Mediawikiwiki.
- https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Warung_Kopi_(Bantuan)
- provide the said assistance and frequent reminders
- [engineering, not part of this task] move pages that were still active as a sub page and set them in read-only
- [engineering, not part of this task] Convert contents to wikitext
- [engineering, not part of this task] T351344: Remove Extension:StructuredDiscussions from wikis where it is not used (then resolve T332022)