On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I emergency disabled Flow on the English and Japanese
Wikiversities due
to conflicts with their "Topic" namespace and Flow making those pages
inaccessible.
Uh-oh, thanks. When Flow gained the Topic namespace I checked for conflict
with existing wiki pages in the main namespace named "Topic:something". I
thought at the time I checked for existing namespaces named "Topic", but
enwikiversity and jawikiversity have had 'Topic' namespaces for a while.
Sorry.
Both checks are now mentioned in "Steps in activating the Flow extension on
a wiki" [1] (I assume this is missing a lot of other things y'all do these
days to Flowify.)
As far as I can tell, fawikibooks and dewikivoyage
*also* have namespace
name conflicts but those pages are not broken...I've left Flow enabled
there for now.
Around 2014 there was a language in which the translation of "Topic" (in
extensions/Flow/Flow.namespaces.php ) conflicted with an existing namespace
translation, I think the translation was of "Project" but I don't think it
was the fa (Persian) translation, as I recall it was something non-Roman
like Cambodian. Paging the Quiddity memex service... :)
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Rollout#Steps_in_activating_the_Flow_ex…
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