Flow/Converting talk pages


 * We have no plans to do this on any public wiki. There will be plenty of warning.

We manually follow these steps when Enabling Flow on individual talk pages, this is the automation to do it for all pages in a namespace.

The first, and so far only, wiki on which we'll do this is "officewiki", the WMF's internal wiki.

First we will convert any existing LiquidThreads pages to Flow boards, see Flow/Converting LiquidThreads.

What happens in conversion

 * renames existing talk page to Talk page name/Archive (/ArchiveN+1 if there are existing archive pages)
 * takes the content of the page above the first section and adds it to the Flow board header
 * adds a template to the Flow board header indicating conversion and linking to the archived page.
 * wikis can customize this template however they prefer.