On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
2014-06-06 0:16 GMT+02:00 Danny Horn
<dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
The Flow team is going to work in a few weeks on
automatically archiving
talk pages, so that we can enable Flow on pages where there are already
existing conversations. Basically, this means moving the old discussions
on
an archive page, and leaving a link for "See
archived talk page" visible
on
the new Flow board.
That means there'll be a minute where a currently active discussion would
get interrupted, and have to be restarted on the new Flow board. That
will
be a pain, but it would only be a one-time
inconvenience during that
transition moment.
Interesting point. Thanks for keeping us up to date. You might like to
know, though, that on German Wikipedia most discussions about Flow
seem to focus on how to turn it off or how to keep it out of the
project altogether. Switching to Flow would require a community
consensus anyway. So could you please consider a global switch for
communities that would rather like to disable these new features
completely.
Regards,
Jürgen.
PS. We have never enabled the LiquidThreads extension neither. And the
new Beta link up right did not stay there for long.
Flow has to be improved further until reaching a state where it will be
deployed generally. That tipping point is not going to be soon, and will be
at different times on various wikis.
During the process of getting there, the team needs as much patient and
insightful feedback as we can collectively give them, regarding what
existing features we need to match (along with examples and edge-cases) and
what new features we'd love to have created. It aims to result in something
better for newcomers *and* better for all types of poweruser. Just like VE,
it's an epic-scale and long-term project, that has to be deployed step by
step as VE should have been instead of its quick early introduction.
Slow and steady feedback at the talkpage
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow>, over the months and years
ahead, is much appreciated.
--
Quiddity / Nick
Community Liaison