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Activation
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On a Wikimedia Foundation hosted wiki
All Wikimedia Foundation hosted wikis can have Flow activated: some have Flow on test pages, or available as a Beta feature for all users.

The process to have Flow on a WMF wiki is detailed on this specific page.

On an other wiki
See Extension:Flow

As a Beta feature
On some wikis, Flow is available as a Beta feature.

You can activate and deactivate Flow on your talk page by visiting the Beta link on your personal toolbar. You need to have an account and to be logged-in to activate a Beta feature.

When you activate Flow, a bot account named "Flow talk page manager" does the following tasks: When you deactivate Flow, "Flow talk page manager" does the following tasks: Flow talk page manager may have a delay to activate Flow. If you don't have Flow on your talk page after some minutes, please report it.
 * your previous talk page in wikitext is automatically archived in a sub-page
 * a link to this sub-page is created on Flow board description right bar
 * all templates at the top of your talk page are reported to the right bar too
 * A Flow Board is created on your personal talk page.
 * a new wikitext talk page is created. This page is blank.
 * Flow Board is archived on a sub-page.

It is not possible to convert a wikitext page to Flow, and vice-versa. This is due to Flow's structure (Board & Topics).

If you want to rename, delete or restore a Flow board, please see the Administration page.

Without Beta feature
If your community have a consensus to try Flow, you have to request Flow on a page.

Someone from the Wikimedia Foundation will activate manually Flow talk page manager. The process will be the same as described above.

Have Flow on an other page than a talk page
If your community have a consensus to try Flow on a specific page, you have to request activation.