Incubator:Maintenance

This page is a working place for Incubator admins and bureaucrats. It provides useful information, and describes what to do for some general maintenance tasks, to make our work easier for ourselves. Purge this page to show the current statistics in this page.

Do not hesitate to add useful links or information here.

See also Incubator:Future planning and Incubator:News.

• Category:Maintenance:Delete (368 pages/categories to be deleted)
• I:RFD. See also #To be deleted per I:RFD below.
• Special:ShortPages - those with 0 bytes or so. Note: these should almost always wait 3–7 days before deletion; sometimes, people create blanks first, then fill them in.

• Incubator:Community Portal
• Incubator:Administrators' noticeboard
• Check ISO639 codes (0 language codes unchecked)
• Check new test wiki root pages (153 pages with |status = tocreate)
• Incubator:Requests for starting a test
• New page patrol (hiding patrolled edits)
• Special:BrokenRedirects. Note: broken redirects of root pages from old codes to new codes are effectively whitelisted, even though they appear on this error report. You can just leave them alone.
• Special:DoubleRedirects. Note: these are rarely here long, as global bots tend to fix them rapidly.

• Incubator:RFP

What to do to give a user test-admin rights? - for bureaucrats

• Step 1: go to Special:Userrights and give them the rights, set to expire in one year.
• Step 2: update MediaWiki:Administrated test wikis.json (be very careful with editing JSON text!)

If a test-admin does not request and receive a renewal of test-admin rights, the rights will automatically be removed after one year (if you've done Step 1 correctly above). You still need to remove the user manually from MediaWiki:Administrated test wikis.json. To prolong test-admin rights, use Special:Userrights in the same way as above, and update the JSON page.

• Check Special:PageTranslation for pages requiring updated marking for translation.

See I:Exporting.

• Deflag test-wiki administrators. It is courteous, though not strictly necessary, to notify them, and even give them a 1–2 week window to check that everything was done correctly. Once they are warned, their rights expiration date can be changed to reflect the date in the notification. Alternatively, simply wait until the date in the notification arrives and manually remove the rights. Finally, once the rights have been withdrawn, don't forget to remove the test from MediaWiki:Administrated test wikis.json.

  Note also that some test administrators will continue to have test-admin status on other tests. In that case, their rights should be left alone, though that particular entry in the .json file is still deleted.

• Deleting the test. There is usually no hurry to delete the Incubator copy of a test that has been exported.
  • There is good reason to wait at least one month, and maybe as much as 3–6 months, to make sure that there was nothing left behind during the export process. Things can always be retrieved later, but this makes it easier for people to look for things they think might be missing.
  • Additionally, it is usually worthwhile to keep at least one recently exported test-wiki until a newer test-wiki has been exported. The reason for that is that we are asked (occasionally) how certain pages are handled before and after the export–especially in the Project: and Help: namespaces. So to have both Wp/qdp/Help:Contents and qdp:Help:Contents available to compare is worthwhile.
  • When you are ready to delete the test-wiki, simply delete all pages - except the info page. The gadget Special:MassDelete will save you a lot of work. There is no need to archive anything.

What to do when a test has to be deleted per I:Requests for deletions?

• Step 1: Export all pages through Special:Export (provided the test is not vandalism or nonsense)
• Step 2: Save the XML file somewhere (on your PC)
• Step 3: Upload the XML file to Incubator using Special:Upload [Requires bureaucrat rights, which are available to anyone who has been an administrator at least one month]
• Step 4: Delete the test (using Special:MassDelete, available through the gadget MassDelete – manually, it's a lot of work!)

What to do when a wiki has been closed/locked per m:Proposals for closing projects? - mostly for these users

• Step 1: importing
• Step 2: leave a note in the table.

See Incubator:Software information and news for usage help; see mw:Extension:WikimediaIncubator for documentation.

(Expand to see history)

• Upcoming/planned features:
  • redirects of langcode.wikiproject.org -> Incubator for all ISO 639 language codes
  1. (S2) info page parser function & better logo handling so all our info pages are in a good state -> in development & under review
  2. (S2) language names project: all +/- 7000 language names in core and make use if it for info pages & searchwiki -> in development & under review
  • (S2/3) Special:IncubatorFirstSteps -> in development & under review
  • (S2/3) maybe better request system -> undetermined future, if ever
  • (S4) Improving Special:Export
    • Exporting pages with a prefix: gerrit:108487
    • Potential feature: Automatically remove prefixes, perhaps script it?

This documentation is incomplete.

• The preloaded text when creating info pages can be customised at MediaWiki:Wminc-infopage-prefill.
• The links on automatic info pages can be customised at MediaWiki:Wminc-infopage-links.

• MediaWiki:Newarticletext: MediaWiki:Newarticletext-noprefix & MediaWiki:Newarticletext-withprefix

The NewUserMessage extension is enabled, so users are automatically "welcomed". Configuration:

Translations

See also

Also relevant: MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg and MediaWiki:Welcomeuser (previously: MediaWiki:Welcomecreation)

The Babel extension is enabled, see Incubator:Babel for more information.

 {{#babel:$2-0|$2-1|$2-2|$2-3|$2-4|$2-5|$2}}

• Special:AbuseFilter & Special:AbuseLog

Warnings:

The MoodBar extension is enabled, so users can give feedback which will appear on Special:FeedbackDashboard. We used to have I:Feedback, which was not very successful.
mw:Extension:MoodBar was disabled in January 2017. All feedback at this point can go to I:CP.

The WikiLove extension is enabled, so users can easily give awards and other nice stuff to other users. Options can be customised through MediaWiki:WikiLove.js.

The script is located in https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=missing.php

• Incubator:Test statistics
• Incubator:Chronostatistics
• Template:Test status statistics