Reason
Wikipage was archived today, although the rest of process doesn't appeared to be actioned.
To-do list
- This task
- Add maintainers of that extension/skin as subscribers to this task (if they have no apparent Phabricator account, notify them on-wiki or via email if possible and note it here).
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Add Phabricator project <#ProjectX> as a tag for this task, and remove MediaWiki-extensions-Other/Other-skins as appropriate.
- On-wiki documentation
- Archive documentation on mediawiki.org (provide URL): replace page contents with {{Archived extension|last revision id before archiving|reason=archive reasons, per {{phab|T######}}.}} (for extensions)/{{Archived skin|last revision|reason=archive reasons, per {{phab|T######}}.}} (for skins); replace T###### with this task's number.
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If documentation page was translatable, remove <translate>, visit Special:PageTranslation, and click "remove from translation" (if you don't have the translation administrator right, ask a user who does). - Update Wikidata item (provide URL) associated with documentation page
- add statement Abandonware (Q281039) to instance of (P31) together with qualifier start time (P580) = the YYYY-MM-DD date that you decided to archive extension/skin (generally per edit history)
- add qualifier end time (P582) = the YYYY-MM-DD (same date as above) to instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426)/MediaWiki skin (Q21996535)
- Phabricator
- Mark all Phabricator tasks for the extension/skin either Declined or Invalid. Add a comment pointing to this task when doing so for reference.
[ ] Archive Phabricator project <#ProjectX> for the extension/skin.[ ] Edit Phabricator project <#ProjectX> description for the extension/skin with a link to this ticket.
- Translatewiki.net/translations
- Remove from translatewiki.net (groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-extensions.txt / groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-skins.txt).
- Configuration/tests/integrations/etc.
- Remove tests in integration/config (zuul/layout.yaml).
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Remove manifest/other references from mediawiki/vagrant if they exist. -
Remove from https://doc.wikimedia.org/cover-extensions/ if present (requires Continuous-Integration-Infrastructure shell user to delete directly from the server).
- Repositories
- Empty repository, leaving only the README indicating the repo is archived, and referring to this task by URL.
- Remove from mediawiki/extensions / mediawiki/skins (along with in .gitmodules).
- Mark the repository read-only in Gerrit (also edit description to prepend "[ARCHIVED]" and a reference to this task): (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/extensions/MSSQLBackCompat).
- Archive the Diffusion repository for the extension/skin: (rEMSQ extension-MSSQLBackCompat).
- Archive the GitHub mirror: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MSSQLBackCompat