On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:03 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just to be clear, the transition to Flow won't
break wikitext
discussion permalinks, either, will it?
You'll have to be more specific. For example,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages remained the
same wikilink and URL after becoming a Flow board.
What we typically do when converting a talk page to Flow is move the
existing page to a /Archive subpage that remains wikitext, and link to it
from the Flow board heading. See the /Archive_1 subpage of the page above.
Section links break but that seems no worse than what happens with current
talk pages when archiving old sections.
There are a lot of things that are possible on talk
pages with
wikitext that I know I can't do with LT (one time someone insisted on
a biased and inaccurate summary.... years ago) and since Flow is more
or less still up in the air as to the details, I am hoping there is
more than one way to find out about this than waiting for time to
tell.
If you wonder if something works in Flow, try it at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Sandbox , and discuss issues at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow Many are covered at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/FAQ
Regards,
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=S Page Features engineer