Legobot will get updated this weekend, and then @Quiddity can happily point bot-owners at every wiki, to the wonderfully simple diffs of an example-upgrade (legobot), and the clear additional documentation (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow/API). Huzzah!
(Or, whatever is needed to make this as simple and fast as possible, for bot-owners to do. The more effort it takes, the less will bother.)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T107093 Bots and Flow living in harmony (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T92470 Provide examples and documentation for adding flow-support to bot-owners | |||
| Open | None | T93650 Help update the bot User:CommonsDelinker to enable editing Flow posts and boards |
I started using {{TNT|Api help| flow+new-topic}} on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow/API to transclude generated API submodule doc, instead of mindlessly retyping it into a wiki. Or just link to [[Special:ApiHelp/flow+new-topic]]. That way the wiki can focus on higher-level guidance.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/API should probably merge with Extension:Flow/Api, mea culpa. It links to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/API#Extension:MassMessage as a specific example of bot edits.
(split to subtask T92470: Provide examples and documentation for adding flow-support to bot-owners)
Note-to-self: Getting https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CommonsDelinker converted early, would be good, as a notable cross-wiki bot that has to edit existing pages/posts. -- Filed as T93650: Help update the bot User:CommonsDelinker to enable editing Flow posts and boards
@Quiddity and others, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/200801/ and the coming Flow plugin, should mostly solve issues for the on-wiki scripts (gadgets and user scripts that need to post messages to talk pages) (not bots exactly, but I don't think we have a bug for the script case, so mentioning it here).