Hello,
I have been working on improving the process of creating with the goal of ultimately automating it
ENORMOUS THANKS!
(for now, it least eliminate the toil [1]).
Good example. This is indeed, Manual, Repetitive, and Automatable, as that page says.
The most exhausting (the toil) part of creating new wikis is keeping track of all of the moving parts, Is CX working? Is DNS entry deployed? ...
As for CX, I've just checked with Kartik, who is the cxserver deployment guru, and he says that it can be done early, before the wiki is created. (Although I guess that ideally it should be done right when the wiki is created, not much earlier and not much later.)
I started a code [2] that takes a bug id like (like T251371) and outputs all of the steps in pre-install and post-install if they are done or not. If you noticed, I have been adding this to bottom of the new wikis creation tickets:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251371
What I want to ask from langcom is to keep in mind that this code parses the text they put in the tickets they create to find out for example if the new wiki is a Wikipedia or a special wiki because it seems you're using a template. Do not change that pattern please, or at least let me know if you're changing it.
In my dream, all of this necessary info is entered in a well-structured _form_, rather than a loose template, and then everything is done automatically, so that people don't have to create a lot of tasks and patches. But I guess that strict usage of a template is a good step in that direction.