We are planning to put Flow into public dumps this month, and work with all the remaining communities still using LQT about converting to Flow. I wanted to let this announcement settle for a minute before we talk to them.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:23 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > >>Much more importantly, Flow very much does cover basic talk pages. You > can > >>write a title and an OP and get people to reply. This has been working > for > >>many months already. This is my definition of "covering basic talk > pages". > >> > >>Even more importantly is that you can write a title and an OP and get > >>people to reply ON THEIR PHONES. This is nearly impossible on the classic > >>talk pages; on them you are lucky to even manage to read the existing > >>discussions, and typing a reply requires extra finger-acrobatics. With > >>Flow it's as easy as on Twitter. I do almost no coding for Mobile > >>Frontend and apps, but I'm a kind of a volunteer mobile technologies > >>ambassador in my home wiki, and good mobile support for talk pages is the > >>#1 request that I hear from veteran editors with regards to using > >>Wikipedia on their phones. This is another thing that Flow has been doing > >>for many months already. > > > > I think most of the points you raise here are true of LiquidThreads or > > _any_ prototype of a discussion system. Yes, you get a reply button > > instead of needing ":: ~~~~" wikitext. That's great, I agree, but after > > having watched LiquidThreads rot and then seeing a lot of time, money, > and > > effort put into Flow, I'm pretty dissatisfied with the deliverable being > > essentially a very intricate proof-of-concept. I think not getting Flow > > fully deployed to Wikimedia wikis is objectively a large failure to > > deliver. Consequently, it seems most prudent to be asking what went wrong > > and how it will be better next time. The underlying reality is that we > > still need a better on-wiki discussion system and it now looks like > > neither LiquidThreads nor Flow are going to be it. > > In addition to this, we still have LiquidThreads (LQT) in production. > > I can understand Flow being put into maintenance mode, especially if > temporarily while energy is focused elsewhere, but I believe the main > Flow project should at least include: > > 1. dumping Flow content into the public dumps ( > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398 ), and > > 2. decommissioning LiquidThreads on all Wikimedia sites by converting > them to Flow > > According to Wikiapiary [1] , there are still seven 'active' WMF sites > using LiquidThreads. > > I see LQT is still actively being used on five of them: > > > https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=&namespace=90 > > > https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=&namespace=90 > > > https://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Mudan%C3%A7as_recentes&days=30&from=&namespace=90 > > > https://fi.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toiminnot:Tuoreet_muutokset&days=30&from=&namespace=90 > (conversion to Flow requested: T104089) > > > https://se.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Senaste_%C3%A4ndringar&days=30&from=&namespace=90 > (conversion to Flow requested: T106302) > > But no Thread: activity on two others: > http://hu.wikipedia.org/ > (They are trialling Flow? T107301) > http://sv.wikisource.org/ > > It is also installed on two locked projects: Wikimania 2010, and > Wikimedia Strategic Planning. Can't they be converted to Flow ? > > And it is still installed on https://www.mediawiki.org/ . Is that > still necessary? > > Is the current plan simply "let users request LiquidThreads pages be > converted to Flow"? > > Which of the above sites are only using it in user talk? > > Have any of the above sites affirmatively decided they do not want to > switch to Flow (yet)? > If so, what are their reasons? > > 1. > https://wikiapiary.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset=0&limit=20&q=[[Has+extension%3A%3AExtension%3ALiquid+Threads]]&p=format%3Dtable%2Flink%3Dall%2Fheaders%3Dshow%2Fmainlabel%3D-2D%2Fintro%3D-3Cb-3EThis-20extension-20is-20in-20use-20on-20the-20following-20websites%3A-3C-2Fb-3E-3Cbr-20-2F-3E%2Fsearchlabel%3D%E2%80%A6-20further-20results%2Fdefault%3DThis-20extension-20is-20no-20longer-20in-20use-20on-20any-20website.%2Fclass%3Dsortable-20wikitable-20smwtable&po=%3FHas+website%3DWiki+name%0A%3FHas+MediaWiki+version%3DMediaWiki+version%0A%3FHas+extension+version%3DExtension+version%0A&sort=Has+MediaWiki+version&order=descending%2Crand&eq=no > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
