Structured Discussions/Rollout


 * 1) Rollout: List of wikis that have been Flow-enabled
 * 2) * see instructions for requesting Flow at a new wiki, at Flow/Request Flow on a page
 * 3) Process: steps to enable Flow on a wiki and a page.
 * 4) Releases: A fairly high-level overview of changes to Flow.

Rollout
The following is a listing of Wikis, grouped by the phases of the Flow rollout.

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Requesting Flow at a new wiki

 * See How to request Flow?

Ways in which enabling Flow affects a wiki
Flow does not affect any non-special pages of a wiki other than the page(s) where Flow has been deployed.


 * Feeds

You will see slight differences in Flow entries in:
 * RecentChanges
 * Special:Contributions
 * Watchlist
 * Special:Log

We're working to make those entries look more like page edits.


 * History

Each Flow topic has its own history. The Flow board is currently the history of topic-level changes. We're working to make it look and behave more like a page history.


 * Moderating content

Currently, deletion and suppression are done from the Flow board, by using the action menu next to a topic or post. In the future, we will move deletion and suppression actions to the history to make them work more like RevisionDeletion


 * Pagelinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, etc.

This functionality is not yet implemented, but work on it is currently in progress.

Steps in activating the Flow extension on a wiki

 * 1) Update this page
 * 2) Announce that Flow is going to be activated on the wiki's technical/admin notice boards.
 * 3) Ready Flow-enabled template, or custom messaging, for Board headers.
 * 4) Make sure no existing namespaces, nor their translations, conflict with Flow's   "Topic:" namespace, and its translations (see ).
 * 5) Check for any existing pages using the Topic: prefix, use Special:MoveTo to rename them.  Note, "namespaceDupes.php doesn't update references in other tables for pages it moved"
 * 6) Prep config change activating the extension and adding a test page (decide whether to distinguish a Flow feedback board from a Flow sandbox board, e.g.m:Talk:Flow/Developer test page)
 * 7) deploy config change, test test page, add Flow-enabled

Steps in enabling Flow on a talk page
To enable Flow on an individual talk page, use Special:EnableFlow. It requires the  right.

Releases
To see in detail what's changed:
 * browse in git or gerrit.
 * See subpages of MediaWiki 1.23 and MediaWiki 1.24
 * See development updates sent to the mailing list

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"Where's the fix?!"
Visit Special:Version to see what version of MediaWiki software a wiki is running, look for "1.NN/wmfXX".
 * 1) The latest Flow code appears on the team's development server (test page) and on the beta cluster (test page).
 * 2) Each week the Flow code goes out with the new MediaWiki release to mediawiki.org (test page).
 * 3) A week later that MediaWiki release is deployed on English Wikipedia (test page).

So on the current deployment cadence (see Deployments/One_week) if some bug is marked fixed or some patch is merged, you can expect to see the fix two Thursdays later on English Wikipedia. We sometimes make special deployments to fix egregious bugs outside of this cadence.