Roan, thanks for these great summaries.
In related news, it seems many (most? all?) LiquidThreads pages on
mediawiki.org have been converted to Flow.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Roan Kattouw <rkattouw(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
The highlights of what's new in wmf14 are:
- The template used to create mentions when using VE in Flow ({{ping}}
on most wikis) is changing <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/223363/>,
so we can get rid of the colon at the end
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99891>. The default name for the
new template is {{FlowMention}}, but this name can be translated on
TranslateWiki. We will create a standard version of this template on all
wikis where it doesn't exist yet.
I tried this on beta labs, it's very cool.
Perhaps Template:FlowMention should be mentioned on Extension:Flow [1]. It
is automatically created when you run maintenance/update.php (slick!), but
automatic template creation is unexpected.
Where is the magic of typing @ and getting a VE user auto-complete
mentioned? Extension:Flow says
$wgFlowHelpPage = //
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Flow
but that page doesn't exist. I know Flow is it's so easy no documentation
is necessary, but how would people know to type it?
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow#Installing
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