waiting two weeks for a requested sync update? ouch! one would hope that these central and significant tasks could be done within a few days

I don't remember who did the last sync, I think either @Reedy or @demon; but I can't remember. If the dumpInterwiki.php script could be used by regular volunteers and patches be uploaded for review and SWAT I think the process would be faster.

@Billinghurst et al. I've filed as well T189577 to consider investigation.

In T188537#4046110, @MarcoAurelio wrote:

I don't remember who did the last sync, I think either @Reedy or @demon; but I can't remember. If the dumpInterwiki.php script could be used by regular volunteers and patches be uploaded for review and SWAT I think the process would be faster.

It's might be too tightly couple to WMF config variables in it's current state to be able to easily run. However, what happens if you try and run it locally, and specifically pass it all the paths to the dblists etc it needs?

Might need a variables setting in LocalSettings too... $wmfRealm at least

		$this->addOption( 'langlist', 'File with one language code per line', false, true );
		$this->addOption( 'dblist', 'File with one db per line', false, true );
		$this->addOption( 'specialdbs', "File with one 'special' db per line", false, true );

I don't really see very much in it that's MW specific/dependant ($wgContLang->lc would be one of a few dependancies)... It would in theory be possible to make it run mostly standalone in mediawiki-config

Change 419153 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; owner: Reedy):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Update interwiki.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/419153

Change 419153 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Update interwiki.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/419153

Thank you! 🐐

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-03-13T12:04:07Z] <reedy@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/interwiki.php: T188537 (duration: 00m 57s)

In T188537#4046295, @Stashbot wrote:

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-03-13T12:04:07Z] <reedy@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/interwiki.php: T188537 (duration: 00m 57s)

Is there a change in logging site? I have a SAL search (linked from talk:interwiki_map) to look at updates at https://tools.wmflabs.org/sal/production?p=0&q=interwiki and @Reedy your update doesn't show there.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/sal/log/AWIfPwhaL7tQ11ghvcnu shows it

https://tools.wmflabs.org/sal/production?p=0&q=interwiki.php&d=

I saw it there. Seems that we have whole word searching, not stem searching. That makes searching significantly less useful. :-/

Cf: scap update-interwiki-cache. It lets you do it all in one step :)