Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-126761-20150625165159/@comment-122657-20150916174200

So I've set up a test with the flag we've set for Directors. I changed the template to the new Portable Infobox syntax to see how well the new systems work together. (Later I realized I needed both styles for an accurate test, and re-added the old template code here).

I was assuming that when a flag is defined, the template would be removed from the page on page save and a flag would be added. A flag could be defined by the drop-down menu for the page as well. Directors Flag Test does not remove either version of the template when it is added, and 'Flags' is not available in the dropdown for the page, despite the page existing in the main namespace.

Has flags not been enabled here yet? I was assuming it had been. Since both templates seem to be acting the same way so far, I'm inclined to believe that the portable infobox syntax does not affect the flags feature. (Which makes sense, since flags doesn't really care what the template is actually doing or showing, but is only tracking where it is being applied, and attempting to change how it is).

I'm going to monkey with the other flags defined in Special:Flags. I don't think all of the ones there really should be there, and it looks like there's no impact until the flags feature is enabled.