Co-op: If bot creates a topic or board header on an empty page, turn it into a Flow board.
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(This is necessary if we haven't killed Flow's Occupation Controller. If we fix T76778, then we only have to consider security issues.)

As Hostbot, when I create a new Flow topic on Wikipedia_talk:Co-op/UserName using the Flow API,
then so long as that page does not exist,
that action should birth a Flow board.

Rough sketch: Flow should check the user's rights, and if it has right flow-create-board (granted to new flow-bot group), then Flow should ensure Flow on that page, using some variant of ensureFlowRevision

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		Status	Assigned	Task
		Declined	None	T78640 Co-op: bot can create a Flow board for each new mentored editor (tracking)
		Resolved	EBernhardson	T76793 Co-op: If bot creates a topic or board header on an empty page, turn it into a Flow board.

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• Spage created this task.Dec 4 2014, 10:09 PM

• Spage renamed this task from Co-op: If botcreates a topic or board header on an empty page, turn it into a Flow board. to Co-op: If bot creates a topic or board header on an empty page, turn it into a Flow board..

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• Spage mentioned this in T76778: Co-op: respect contentmodel in the page DB..Dec 4 2014, 11:54 PM

EBernhardson claimed this task.Dec 11 2014, 2:58 AM

Change 178383 had a related patch set uploaded (by EBernhardson):
Create user right for creating flow boards

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178383

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EBernhardson moved this task from Team discussion to Code Review on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.Dec 11 2014, 3:00 AM

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a project: StructuredDiscussions.Dec 15 2014, 7:22 PM

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• Spage mentioned this in T78634: disallow changing content model from API and EditPage.Dec 16 2014, 9:04 AM

Change 178383 merged by jenkins-bot:
Create user right for creating flow boards

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178383

EBernhardson mentioned this in rEFLW210b31b0bc94: Create user right for creating flow boards.Dec 17 2014, 11:57 PM

Change 180677 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mattflaschen):
Create user right for creating flow boards

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/180677

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Change 180677 merged by jenkins-bot:
Create user right for creating flow boards

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/180677

• Mattflaschen-WMF mentioned this in rEFLWec93aaff51f2: Create user right for creating flow boards.Dec 17 2014, 11:59 PM

• Spage edited projects, added Collaboration-Team-Sprint-M-2014-12-17; removed Collaboration-Team-Triage.Dec 18 2014, 6:17 PM

• Spage added a project: Collaboration-Team-Triage.Dec 19 2014, 3:36 AM

Should be working, need confirmation when Co-op team gets the bot right.

Change 181120 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mattflaschen):
Make flow-bot grantable/removable on testwiki and test2wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/181120

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Do we still need https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/181120 to grant flow-bot on testwiki? While I had global sysop power I added MatchBot and myself to the Flow bot group on testwiki, https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers?group=flow-bot

• Spage mentioned this in T85474: Flow 503 errors from HHVM trying to visit Flow board with special characters.Dec 29 2014, 9:09 PM

In T76793#947660, @Spage wrote:

Do we still need https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/181120 to grant flow-bot on testwiki? While I had global sysop power I added MatchBot and myself to the Flow bot group on testwiki, https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers?group=flow-bot

We'll need a corresponding patch for production (to give English Wikipedia local bureaucrats the right to grant the group), so we might as well just amend that patch and apply it to both testwiki and enwiki.

I was able to action=flow&submodule=new-topic on an empty page on testwiki and it created a Flow board, likewise action=flow&submodule=edit-header&ehcontent=foo&page=New_page created a Flow board. \o/

Someone without the flow-create-board right (i.e. not in the flow-bot group) making the same latter Flow API request to edit-header of a non-existent page gets

"error":{"code":"invalid-page","info":"Page provided does not have Flow enabled", ...}

If you have the flow-create-board right and try to add-topic or edit-header on an existing wikitext page, you get the same error.

I think we can declare victory on this one.

• Spage removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 30 2014, 1:46 AM

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• Spage updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 30 2014, 1:49 AM

Change 181120 merged by jenkins-bot:
Make flow-bot grantable/removable on enwiki, testwiki, test2wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/181120

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• Mattflaschen-WMF mentioned this in rOMWCead49ee864b6: Make flow-bot grantable/removable on enwiki, testwiki, test2wiki.Mar 3 2015, 9:01 PM

Diffusion mentioned this in rMEXT54eb531545be: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/Flow….Mar 11 2015, 6:22 AM

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