Hello Patchers!

Patch demo can now create wiki farms 🎉! A wiki farm is “a collection of two or more wikis that run on the same server and share a common set of resources from the parent installation, while each wiki remains otherwise independent.” Wikis in Patch demo’s wiki farms share the same codebase.To read more about how wiki families/wiki farms work, see this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family.

**Steps to create wiki farms on Patch Demo:** - Select the preset you want to use and the extensions to include/exclude. Note that CentralAuth and AntiSpoof extensions are required and will be automatically enabled for wiki farm creation. - Select the “Create wikifarm” checkbox. - Input the number of wikis in your wiki farm you want to create (default: 2) - Continue the rest of the creation process as usual, and click “create demo”.

**Helpful UI tips:** - Details about the wiki farms are in the Repos > Custom > Arrow down. This shows the Base preset, Included/Excluded repositories, and if it’s a wiki farm, the number of instances in it. - To duplicate environments you have created, including wiki farms ones, use the Copy button. - To see a list of links to the wikis in the wiki farm, navigate to '/wiki/Main_Page'

Thank you and have a great holiday season, – Esuvat (and the other PatchDemons)