Reason
This extension has not been updated in a long, long time. Its extension page states that it does not support MediaWiki 1.16beta3 and later, and has not seen any non-maintenance update in almost a decade. In addition, the maintainer is globally banned on WMF.
To-do list
- This task
- Add maintainers of that extension as subscribers to this task: Not possible, user is globally banned.
- Add Phabricator project
- On-wiki documentation
- Archive documentation on mediawiki.org (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PureWikiDeletion): replace page contents with {{TNT|Archived extension|3280425|reason=This extension has not been updated in a long, long time. It does not support MediaWiki 1.16beta3 and later, see [[phab:T225991]]}}; include a link to this task in the reason parameter.
- Archive Wikidata item associated with documentation page (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21678138) (remove nearly all statements, except instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426), which should add a qualifier end time (P582) = the YYYY-MM-DD date that you decided to archive extension, generally per edit history, change English (and other languages if possible) description to "archived MediaWiki extension" (and its translation)).
- Phabricator
- Mark all Phabricator tasks for the extension either Declined or Invalid. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/wmrKCvG67gva/)
- Translatewiki.net/translations
- Remove from translatewiki.net (groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-extensions.txt) (add translatewiki.net project as a tag for this task).
- Configuration/tests/integrations/etc.
- Remove from mediawiki/extensions (along with in .gitmodules).
- Remove tests in [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/integration/config | integration/config ]] (zuul/layout.yaml).
- Repositories
- Empty repository leaving only the README indicating the repo is archived and referring to this task by URL.
- Mark the repository read-only in Gerrit (Edit description to prepend "[ARCHIVED]" and append Task reference): (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/PureWikiDeletion).
- Archive the diffusion repository for the extension: (rEPWD).
- Delete the GitHub mirror: (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-PureWikiDeletion).