Hello, I have been working on improving the process of creating with the goal of ultimately automating it (for now, it least eliminate the toil [1]). 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? ... 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 My next plan is to actually make maintenance bot [3] add these and keep track of them and in the next steps it would start creating patches and close/create tickets too but writing this is quite exhausting and gerrit's API is no less than a disaster. Any help is appreciated! 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. [1]: More about what "toil" is: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/eliminating-toil/ [2]: https://github.com/Ladsgroup/Phabricator-maintenance-bot/commit/016fac156ab… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Maintenance_bot/ Best -- Amir (he/him) _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom

Hi Amir, Great news. This will can only smoth creation of new wikis. Does this take into account the specificity of some Wikimedia projects ? (I'm thinking about the Proofread extension for the Wikisources but there is probably others). Cheers, ~nicolas Le mar. 19 mai 2020 à 16:16, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> a écrit : _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom

It's in the source code when you search for "PHABRICATOR LINK+PREFILL". The link with the prefilled text appears if status = approved, e.g. here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Konka… (in the very last line of the expanded template). Am Mi., 20. Mai 2020 um 12:06 Uhr schrieb Amir Sarabadani < ladsgroup(a)gmail.com&gt;gt;:

-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 19 במאי 2020 ב-17:16 מאת ‪Amir Sarabadani‬‏ <‪ ladsgroup@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ ENORMOUS THANKS! Good example. This is indeed, Manual, Repetitive, and Automatable, as that page says. 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.) Is there a task where you track this particular work of yours? If not, perhaps you could document it at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158730 . 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. _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom