Set DiscussionTools as default talk pages system at Phase 2b wikis
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	Jan 13 2025, 3:05 PM

Description

This task involves the work of both:

Finding all of the wikis where Flow is the default talk page system and
Revising this configuration so that DiscussionTools is the default talk page system

Deployment timing

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Requirements

find all wikis where Flow is the default talk pages system (whole wiki, or whole namespaces)
- Parent task was filled from https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt
report that list here, as it might differ from the list in T380912

Wiki	Done
officewiki	✅
kabwiki	✅
sewikimedia	✅
cawikiquote	✅

for concerned phase 2b wikis, make Discussion tools the default system for all namespaces

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove Flow as the default talk system	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+0 -51

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	None	T335670 Disable Flow/Structured Discussions from all namespaces, except for user talk pages, on Catalan Wikipedia
Open	None	T106123 Extensions needing to be removed from Wikimedia wikis
Open	None	T332022 [Epic] Undeploying StructuredDiscussions (Flow)
Open	None	T377050 [epic] Phase #1: Archive all active Flow boards
Resolved	ppelberg	T380909 [Config] Set Flow to read-only at all Phase 2b wikis
Resolved	Ryasmeen	T383569 Set DiscussionTools as default talk pages system at Phase 2b wikis

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Jan 13 2025, 3:05 PM

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Trizek-WMF moved this task from Untriaged to Upcoming on the Editing-team board.Jan 13 2025, 3:07 PM

Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T380912: Inform *Phase 2b* wikis of Flow removal plan and timing.

Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 13 2025, 4:01 PM

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ppelberg renamed this task from Remove Flow as the default talk pages system at concerned phase 2b wikis to Set DiscussionTools as default talk pages system at Phase 2b wikis.Jan 14 2025, 7:29 PM

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.Jan 17 2025, 1:21 PM

ppelberg added a parent task: T380909: [Config] Set Flow to read-only at all *Phase 2b* wikis.Jan 18 2025, 12:39 AM

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Xqt mentioned this in T381551: Remove support for Structured Discussion (Flow) with Pywikibot 10.Feb 14 2025, 3:14 PM

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ppelberg assigned this task to zoe.Mar 10 2025, 5:18 PM

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zoe updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 11 2025, 2:36 PM

Change #1126577 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zoe; author: Zoe):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove Flow as the default talk system

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1126577

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 11 2025, 2:46 PM

Change #1126577 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove Flow as the default talk system

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1126577

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-12T14:28:28Z] <tgr@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1126577|Remove Flow as the default talk system (T383569)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-12T14:31:27Z] <tgr@deploy2002> zoe, tgr: Backport for [[gerrit:1126577|Remove Flow as the default talk system (T383569)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 12 2025, 2:32 PM

That's deployed and I've verified the wikis in question are not defaulting to Flow.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-12T14:40:00Z] <tgr@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1126577|Remove Flow as the default talk system (T383569)]] (duration: 11m 32s)