All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII

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So, Flow has been depreciated and replaced with DiscussionTools.

Assuming that we don't want to run unsupported software on our wiki, how do we migrate to DiscussionTools?

De facto, Flow has been deprecated for years now, given that everyone who actually understood how the software works left Wikimedia.  It's had only the barest minimum of maintenance work done for quite a long time.  Last I checked, Pppery wrote a migration script that only works on Wikimedia wikis.  I'll loop back around and check what's happening on the Miraheze end -- he does own some wikis on Miraheze, so we can (already did?) talk him into porting it over to our system.

Also, de facto, Miraheze is supporting Flow as long as we continue to run it.  About as well as WMF does -- basically make sure it runs, that's it.

Enabling DiscussionTools is the easy part -- basically turn it on and configure namespaces.  On pages where it needs it, edit the wiki to add some disccusion tools buttons on it.

This is also part of the effort I was making to improve WikiForum earlier this year, to get it to a point where Miraheze would be willing to turn it back on.  Because DiscussionTools is basically Talk Pages++, while WikiForum is forum-like.  Flow was in-between, and essentially did neither role well.  Currently someone is improving WikiForum (I think WikiTeq), I need to check on those patches.  And then we may want to convert some Flow threads to WikiForum format rather than talk pages. Which I would have to write.  So think about where you want different types of Flow boards to end up.