The Disambiguator extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator)
is now deployed to all WMF wikis. This will enable us to:
1. Remove disambiguation code from core, including
Special:Disambiguations (bug 35981)
2. Stop requiring wikis to maintain template lists at
MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage
3. Add features like warning users when they are linking to
disambiguation pages (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70564)
4. Remove disambiguation pages from things like Special:Random and
Special:LonelyPages
4. Enable the development of more powerful 3rd party tools for
dealing with disambiguation pages
There is, however, one action required of each wiki that wants to
make use of the Disambiguator extension: Every disambiguation page
on the wiki needs to include the __DISAMBIG__ magic word (or an
equivalent alias). Typically, this only requires adding the magic
word to a single template that is included on all the disambiguation
pages. For example, on Commons, this was accomplished with the
following change:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADisambig&diff=99758122&oldid=99728960
On English Wikipedia, it was a bit more complicated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADmbox&diff=560507118&oldid=540384230
Once you've made this change, you should start seeing pages appear
on Special:DisambiguationPages within 3 days. If you have any
questions or problems, let me know.
Ryan Kaldari
Wikimedia Foundation