[WikiToLearn-Tech] Update the Discussion/Talk extension

[Cristian Baldi]

The only problems about moving to Flow could be about the loss of already
started discussion (which are not many) and maybe we would have a few
broken parts with the current skin (both these problems are not confirmed,
just a thought i had)

Again,

Cristian

2015-12-29 15:04 GMT+01:00 Cristian Baldi <bld.cris.96 at gmail.com>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I want to discuss about upgrading the Discussion/Talk feature on
> WikiToLearn. For those who don't know right now we use LiquidThread (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads), an old and no
> more supported extension.
>
> The current version of this extension (2) is no longer actively
>> maintained. WMF provides no support to Wikimedia wikis using it and
>> requests of install on new Wikimedia projects are no longer possible.
>> Development of version 3.0 was cancelled, too. We do not recommend
>> installing this on new third-party wikis either.
>
>
> I suggest we move to Flow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow . It is in
> beta but it is looking very good and I don't think the 'Beta' tag is a
> problem for us.
>
> Just to make a meaningful example: the system we currently use does not
> even have a complete and documented API (leaving reverse engeneering as the
> only option, and this is blocking features for the PDFCheck project) while
> Flow even offers a pywkibot wrapper!!
>
> I think we should do this task for the next release (the sooner the
> better). Let me know what you think.
>
>
> Cristian
>
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