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Fascinating. I dug in the code and think I found it. The line of code to blame is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/includes/specialpage/ChangesListSpecialPage.php;062d935971a96b788953448fc2b150056a41924e$1325. On this server, $wgRCMaxAge is set to 1000, which limits the days you can ask for to values between 0 and 1000 seconds. The default is 1 day, but this is truncated to 1000 seconds. This is added as a new value to the list of possible values.
It would be possible to add a min( 1, … ) to the line of code I pointed to, and to remove values that are larger from the list. But to be honest I don't think it's worth it fiddling with this code.
Solution:
- Set https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCMaxAge to 86400.
- Set https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCLinkDays to [ 1 ].
Apparently I wasn’t subscribed to this task, so I just had a huge revelation when looking at the LocalSettings.php (“no, wait, is that it? really?”) and then I saw that @thiemowmde already came to the same conclusion a week ago :D
But yeah, @Addshore why are we even tweaking wgRCMaxAge at all? Shouldn’t we just leave it at its default value? (This commit unfortunately doesn’t provide much information.)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2018-05-15T15:41:22Z] <Lucas_WMDE> sed -i '/wgRCMaxAge/ { s/^/# /; s/$/ # temporarily removed by Lucas, see T193021/; }' LocalSettings.php
I’ve temporarily commented the line, and now RecentChanges and Watchlist look normal. But that doesn’t solve the problem for all the other containers we created with this configuration.
Updated the wikibase-registry to newer images and also to set this setting itself in its own local LocalSettings.php
