Author: metatron
Description:
As mentioned in the docs, Flow is designed to be a cross wiki database
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Database
Please make this db and all its tables available accessible on Labs/Tools/Cloud
The key thing here is to properly redact the data respecting Flow's moderation model.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T121742 Set up replica from extension1 cluster | |||
| Stalled | None | T136950 Add Flow contributions to XTools | |||
| Open | None | T69397 Make Flow database available / accessible on Labs/Tools |
metatron wrote:
To allow Tool developers to adapt to the new format and create custom analysis.
@Ariel I wonder if importing from the dumps would be a good way to solve this.
It's not the only approach, but it would solve the moderation/redaction issues without us doing that specifically for this use case.
There's already replication to WMF Cloud for most dbs; I'd prefer that we add the Flow db to that workflow. Among the benefits will be that its data will always be up-to-date, rather than relying on twice-monthly imports.
@Mattflaschen-WMF P.S. The 'Ariel' user exists only for purposes of the CoC committee; they needed a non WMF account for their purposes. Use the ArielGlenn one instead.
This seems rather blocked on replicating extension1 cluster, which is currently declined T121742. Unless that gets reconsidered, this bug is not going anywhere
I think this task was opened specifically about replicating the flow tables to the Cloud Services Wiki Replicas. Is the flow redaction model wildly different than the redaction model for page revisions? Mostly I'm wondering if somehow we can't run these tables through the same sanitarium + filtered view workflow that we use for other wiki content. I would imagine that we would not be talking about replicating the actual Flow revision content from External Store, just the various metadata tables. There is some description of the suppression model at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StructuredDiscussions/Moderation but we would want a Flow expert to help make sure we design the correct view logic.
Well all the flow metadata is in extension1, so I would assume that a precursor to that is replicating extension1 to sanitarium.
I'm not familar with the flow redaction model, but I can't imagine its really all that different, and can probably be handled the same way.