2016-06-07 21:09 GMT+03:00 Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com:

TL;DR: They've been deprecated for years, but.. No, removal has not been scheduled and will not happen this year.

Thanks Krinkle! I pretty much expected that such a change would have been widely publicized, but I wanted to confirm. I guess larger wikis have already moved away from them, but there are many more (very) small wikis that still use those variables in script imported long ago from Wikipedia.

Strainu

Migration is strongly recommended. Scripts that have one or more active maintainers should've been migrated by now.

However, removal has not yet been scheduled to give users more time to find, help or attract new developers to maintain affected scripts.

Tasks:

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35837 (disable legacy globals by

default and Wikimedia wikis)

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72470 (remove support for legacy

globals in MediaWiki general)

It's been two years, so it's definitely time to start thinking about this.

However, I would recommend against doing the removal this year, because there is very little benefit to get from removing the globals at this point. It's easy to support, removing them is disruptive, and we already have other (more important) migrations on-going right now.

-- Krinkle

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:

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There is talk in some communities about the wg-globals going away later this year, but I can't find anything in the tech updates or mw.org

Is there any definite time-line for the removal?

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