We would kindly ask you to activate the Extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia) on the German Wikivoyage wiki.
Community support 8I know our community is not that big and not many people take care of the technical issues.: https://de.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Lounge#Vorschlag_f.C3.BCr_eine_Erweiterung:_DynamicPageList
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Activate DynamicPageList on dewikivoyage | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +1 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Open | None | T14423 DynamicPageList activation/deployment requests (tracking) | |||
| Declined | None | T171293 Activation DynamicPageList Extension on Wikivoyage/de | |||
| Open | None | T124841 Address performance needs for Wikimedia from DynamicPageList extension so that it can be deployed to further wikis | |||
| Open | None | T287380 Decide on the future of DPL |
Setting project to Wikimedia-Site-requests, as this request is about settings / configuration of a Wikimedia website.
For more information about how to request these kinds of changes, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes
@DerFussi: Heja! :) As you assigned this task to yourself, do you plan to fix this task? If not, feel free to reset (Add Action... → Assign / Claim in the dropdown).
Change 366838 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Activate DynamicPageList on dewikivoyage
As I can't be here at the next deployment window I've asked the others in Z398 to schedule it. Watch the task if anything happens!
Change 366838 abandoned by Urbanecm:
Activate DynamicPageList on dewikivoyage
Reason:
see phab task
As long as we are talking about DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia) its a performance issue not security, so its @greg 's call. It might be ok on small wikis. Im not really sure where we are drawing the line.
Thanks @Bawolff. We'll wait for @greg here then. It'd be good indeed to draw a line because there are some requests stalled to activate this and it'd be good to move forward on them. Could any of you raise this in the ops mailing list? I don't have access to it. Thanks!
(edit: in case that it is decided that this extension should not be installed on more wikis until the performance issues are solved we could list that at m:Limits to configuration changes for general knowledge, or in case it is decided that small wikis [definition of small] only, we can add it there as well)
Sorry for the delay.
It looks like the performance review is done, but not the actual follow-ups to correct what the review found, correct? See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124841#1968724
Before we allow this to go out on any more wikis we should have those issues addressed (@Bawolff outlined two options: a non-total-rewrite and a rewrite).
Based on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers this would be in the (large) backlog of the "Contributors -> Editing team". I'll add them to the relevant tasks.
T124841 (linked above under Related Objects) is open and needs to get fixed first by someone who volunteers to work on that code...
Declining to reflect reality. The DynamicPageList extension was a cause of several site-wide outages (see https://w.wiki/4Ey3 as an example). For those reasons, it has been deemed to be unsafe for deployment on any further wikis. For more details, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_configuration_changes.