Right now, the configurations of which maintenance templates are used for which difficulty levels are stored on mediawiki.org, and they're not standardized. They should be:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Catrope | T237301 Newcomer tasks: fix and migrate JSON config pages | |||
| Resolved | Catrope | T237140 Newcomer tasks module setup is not complete for kowiki betalabs |
Once JSON pages are on the target wikis, there should also be a LocalPageConfigurationLoader which loads them in the normal way. That's T235717: Newcomer tasks: non-HTTP-based ConfigurationLoader and TaskSuggester (and lower priority since the current loading method is ugly but functional).
Standardized to be the same for each language.
This is done now, except that kowiki doesn't have an entry for links because none is supplied on the spreadsheet.
Stored on the target wikis, instead of mediawiki.org
I assume we want these pages to live in the MediaWiki namespace, so it would be something like {localWiki}.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GrowthExperiments/NewcomerTasks/TaskTypes.json.
I don't have privileges to create these pages, so I think once we're reasonably sure that the pages are finalized we can ask the ambassadors to create those pages by copying the contents from e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_tasks/Prototype/templates/{lang}.json
I can create them if that's easier.
By the way, do we want to limit who can edit them (e.g. limit it to interface admins instead of sysops)?
JSON pages can be edited by sysops and interface editors as well, so in that case we should have a task about restricting it.
I think pure sysops are okay. Interface administrators are supposed to handle JS/CSS only. If we restrict this to iadmins as well, we can get to a point when a community will appoint iadmin not to manage JS/CSS, but for some other purpose. That's also why no wiki has (and will have) other permissions assigned to iadmins.
Change 552353 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] GrowthExperiments: Move newcomer tasks JSON config from mw.org to local wikis
I'm going to move these to Wikipedia:NewcomerTasks.json. Not putting them in the MediaWiki namespace because 1) it's not a message and 2) we want to protect these to be sysop-only, rather than interfaceadmin-only, as @Urbanecm pointed out.
JSON pages in the MediaWiki namespace are sysop-only. JSON pages in the Wikipedia namespace are editable by anyone, which seems a bit risky.
I created each of these and protected them manually. But you make a good point that by putting them in the MW namespace they'll have some protection by default.
Turns out this was better anyway, because *.json pages in the MediaWiki namespace automatically get a JSON content model upon creation, and in the Wikipedia namespace that doesn't happen. You can use Special:ChangeContentModel, but that's an extra step that's not that easy to do.
Change 552353 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] GrowthExperiments: Move newcomer tasks JSON config from mw.org to local wikis
Sorry, did not notice that. Still, MediaWiki: is kind of standard for JSON files, and it's harder to make a mistake when setting up future wikis that way. (interface-admin is required for CSS/JS only, so that's not an issue.)
Change 552356 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] RemotePageConfigurationLoader: Make non-remote titles work
Change 552356 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] RemotePageConfigurationLoader: Make non-remote titles work
Change 552360 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.35.0-wmf.5] RemotePageConfigurationLoader: Make non-remote titles work
Change 552360 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.35.0-wmf.5] RemotePageConfigurationLoader: Make non-remote titles work
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-11-22T00:18:56Z] <catrope@deploy1001> Synchronized php-1.35.0-wmf.5/extensions/GrowthExperiments/: Make non-remote titles work in RemotePageConfigurationLoader (T237301) (duration: 00m 54s)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-11-22T00:20:39Z] <catrope@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Move newcomer tasks JSON config from mw.org to local wikis (T237301) (duration: 00m 52s)