Jon, does "very very very" mean that you have usability test results
supporting your opinion?


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is very very very exciting. I'm glad this is something you are doing.
> Getting Flow in front of more people is going to make the product even
> better!
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yey!
>>
>> Just to confirm, you have our fullest support in enabling Flow and
>> convering all LQT threads to flow boards on se.wikimedia,org. We have
>> already been talking to request that so we are really looking forward to it.
>>
>>
>> *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
>>
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>>
>>
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>> Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
>>
>>
>> 2014-09-20 2:39 GMT+02:00 S Page <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Summary: we'll convert some LiquidThreads conversations on mediawiki.org
>>> into Flow boards on test2wiki. The real move off LQT depends on changing
>>> how Flow pages are enabled, which has further dependencies.
>>>
>>> Danny Horn, Erik Bernhardson, quiddity, and I  met to talk about next
>>> steps in moving off LiquidThreads, which is deployed on 13 wikis. We will
>>> eventually convert all their LQT pages and threads to Flow boards and
>>> topics.
>>>
>>> There are inter-dependencies:
>>>
>>> We would need to enable Flow on 8 new wikis in order to convert all
>>> those LQT pages.  (We would probably leave wikimania2010wiki as is.)  Our
>>> initial focus will be mediawiki.org.
>>>
>>> Kill LQT on mediawiki.org means 1,500 pages become Flow boards
>>>   -> that's impractical to manage with the current PHP FlowOccupyPages
>>> variable
>>>      So we need to replace it with a Special page to enable/disable Flow.
>>>      -> which depends on *Bug 49193*
>>> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49193> - "Add
>>> ContentHandler columns to Wikimedia wikis, and set $wgContentHandlerUseDB =
>>> true"
>>>          -> which hasn't completed and is blocked by bug 70901
>>>
>>> We have a patch that replaces FlowOccupyPages with a bare-bones Special
>>> page to change a page between wiki text and Flow board. Eventually enabling
>>> Flow on a page is going to be a wiki administrative function, a big change
>>> that's a win for decentralization and local decision-making.  We would
>>> restrict this Special page to Flow team on mediawiki.org at first, but
>>> there would be pushback if we do this on other wikis.
>>>
>>> As Andrew Werdna suggested, the Special page would eventually handle the
>>> conversion from an LQT page to Flow, and if you disable Flow it would
>>> convert the Flow board into wikitext.  Lots to do.
>>>
>>>
>>> In the interim we are going to focus on the script that converts a LQT
>>> page into a Flow board.  We need to show this to people who will be
>>> affected by the change from LQT to Flow.
>>>
>>> TODO:  change current script to target a LQT page on mediawiki.org and
>>> convert it into Flow boards and topics on test2wiki, without changing the
>>> original.
>>> (We'll write this conversion script  so it can eventually be called from
>>> the Special page to enable Flow.)
>>>
>>> We'll create a "Test Zero" LQT page with Flow team members
>>> participating, and convert that. Then we'll convert a few actual LQT pages
>>> from mw.org onto test2wiki.
>>>
>>> Notes on the conversion script:
>>> *  It'll produce weird results if run multiple times on the same LQT
>>> page.
>>> *  Not sure what happens to multiple thread edits.
>>> * Conversion needs to add the converted Flow board and topics to the
>>> watchlists of users wwho were watching the LQT page and threads.
>>> * Conversion will create redirects for common LQT URLs, but not e.g. the
>>> Summary namespace URLs.
>>> * Conversion itself will not generate Echo notifications and e-mails
>>>
>>>
>>> quiddity mentioned the following as likely concerns of LQT users after
>>> the conversion to Flow:
>>> *  LQT TOC  (we should have a nice Flow TOC soon!)
>>> *  Splitting and merging threads:
>>> *  Moving threads to a new Talk page.
>>> *  User-friendly Topic names, e.g.
>>> Thread:Extension_talk:Flow/Appearance/reply_(6) becomes
>>> Topic:Rylnpvcpshj9n30s#flow-post-rylnvqsqmjnng558
>>>
>>> Project planning goes on in <
>>> https://trello.com/c/0VP635yr/683-tracking-when-should-we-kill-lqt> and
>>> related cards.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>> --
>>> =S Page  Features engineer
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