All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII

[robkelk]

... I am now calling for a vote:
In that it now is actively getting in the way of our administrative procedures, stop using Flow immediately.

Withdrawing this motion as redundant.

Tech:Noticeboard/Removing extensions for the MediaWiki 1.45 upgrade

Miraheze's Technology Team is planning to remove eight extensions, including Flow, for the MediaWiki 1.45 upgrade.

The Wikimedia Foundation is on its way to undeploy Flow (StructuredDiscussions), after which the extension will be completely unmaintained. It has already caused issues with past MediaWiki upgrades on Miraheze, so we should remove it sooner than later.

The technology team plans to use an automated script to delete all Flow discussion pages and replace them with wikitext equivalents. There are two possible paths:

1. The replaced page only has a single revision and the edit history would be lost. The sequence of events can only be inferred from the timestamps on signatures.
   
2. The replaced page has the full page history reconstructed from past Flow discussions. This option presents more technical challenges but seems to be doable (albeit harder than the previous option).
   The technology team is still evaluating the feasibility of the second option. If you'd like to preserve the full edit history, please say so in the discussion section below.