Blog:Updates and warning if you want Wikia style talk pages

This is a tech post to explain new features and some warnings if you are someone who imported a wiki dump from Wikia and wants Wikia style user talk pages (aka "Message Walls")

First off, the new features (all enabled by default):

HotCat: At the bottom of articles you'll notice categories have several symbols next to them, this means you edit existing categories, delete them, or modify them without going into the edit box, but if you edit more than one, it will go to the edit window to confirm your changes.

You can still edit categories the original way, this just makes it a little easier.

PurgeTab: If you check the list of options on the More tab on articles, you notice a "Purge" feature, use this if a page looks wrong after you added content, this should hopefully fix the issue.

Autocomplete: When editing pages, this will,when you add links to anything on the wiki, show a drop down box to the side with suggested links, you can use this to auto-add links to things.

{This is for source editing mode, will not work in visual editing mode, which has a similar built-in feature)

Hot License: When you add a picture, you can automatically add a "license" to it so no one gives Miraheze an angry message saying someone stole their work later. If you are in doubt, pick "Fair use", unless you know the license of your image.

This adds a drop down insertable license menu to the upload menu for images.

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Now, a warning for anyone planning to enable "Flow", or Wikia style message walls for talk pages.

The versions of MediaWiki used by Wikia are incredibly old, and when they were added to Miraheze, which uses a much newer version, that means enabling Flow may cause some talk pages to not convert properly, the simplest way I can explain why is that Wikia's ancient MediaWiki is terrible and Miraheze can't make it look good sometimes because their talk page records are not easily converted to Flow format (Wikia doesn't use Flow, they use Wikia specific talk pages that do something similar).

If this happens, the old talk pages will be corrupted beyond repair unfortunately, but the new flow pages will work just fine.

Bear this in mind if you intend to enable Flow.

