On dewiki the FeaturedFeed extension output for TFA should be restricted to the last seven days since dewiki chose to address them by days of the week. This leads to repetition of featured articles and the TFAs of over a week ago indicate the wrong featured article.
E.g. on March 6th https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=atom lists the following entries:
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| operations/mediawiki-config : master | Limit FeaturedFeed on dewiki to last seven days |
If this is related to something in the operations/mediawiki-config repository it should be tagged with Wikimedia-Site-requests .
Change 341267 had a related patch set uploaded (by bsitzmann):
[operations/mediawiki-config] Limit FeaturedFeed on dewiki to last seven days
I confirm according the documentation, the limit parameter is well the one to edit ("Maximum number of entries (ie number of days) in the feed.").
Since the problem only concern one feed, the featured one, I think that it's better to use wmgFeaturedFeedsOverrides. Sample:
'wmgFeaturedFeedsOverrides' => [ 'default' => [], 'dewiki' => // T159664 'featured' => [ 'limit' => 7, ], ],
@bearND do you still plan to work on this ?
@Framawiki This Thursday or next works for me. Are you going to add it to the SWAT deployment list or do you want me to? Which time are you thinking? If you need me, I won't be around for the European mid day SWAT windows, though. The US times are usually good for me. If you don't need me then choose whatever works best for you, of course. You probably know this stuff better than me anyways.
@bearND I'm ready to deploy this patch with my other ones in the next SWAT window (morning SWAT, in 15min). Is it ok for you ?
@Framawiki sorry I missed it since I was offline. Anytime is fine if you don't need me around.
Change 341267 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Limit FeaturedFeed on dewiki to last seven days
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-07-27T18:15:11Z] <catrope@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Limit FeaturedFeed on dewiki to 7 days (T159664) (duration: 00m 47s)
Deployed, and it looks good for me.
@bearND, can you confirm ? https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=atom