https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60178
--- Comment #7 from Maryana Pinchuk <mpinc...@wikimedia.org> --- Just to answer some of the questions above and (hopefully) clear up some misconceptions: 1) "Is Flow ready for a production wiki?" It's been live on not one but 3 production wikis (mediawiki.org, testwiki, test2wiki) for over a month, so it's a little late for the rhetorical speculation :) 2) "A few people have noted that quite recently (within the past few weeks, I suppose) Flow didn't support user blocks and other anti-abuse features." Flow is currently integrated with both AbuseFilter and spam blacklist and fully supports registered and unregistered user blocks. There was a bug in early January which caused IP blocks to not work, but we fixed it as soon as we spotted it. 3) "Flow can't be enabled on any production wiki anywhere unless there is an exit strategy, i.e. a script to convert Flow discussions back to wikitext." And there is precisely such a script :) 4) "As for most WMF software projects nowadays, all wikis should be offered to pioneer, volunteering to the experimentation 1 to n project/talk pages with x to y edits per month, for any given n, x and y." That's an excellent idea :) Let's do it! So, just to recap: we're only deploying to a couple discussion spaces where the editor community has agreed to trial Flow, and this is explicitly a test of the software aimed at making it better, hence the option to opt back out and return all discussions back to wikitext at any time. This is *not* the final product, and Flow will *not* be enabled globally without extensive feedback from the people who use it and product/design iteration to address that feedback. Any language Wikipedia or sister project interested in participating in this trial phase is welcome to do so (I like Nemo's idea of asking folks to volunteer 1-2 pages to start; I'll see what the rest of the Flow team thinks). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
