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Ensure current use cases of rmspecials are ready for change in its functionality
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The uses cases should either be removed/commented out or should be updated such that they are wrapped in rmwhitespace()

Below is a list of distinct wikis for which a message was sent to the appropriate noticeboard/village pump page on Oct 27. As local community members take it on to handle it for their wiki, we will check off the list. In 2 weeks (i.e. Nov 10), whichever wikis did not take this on will be taken care of by an abuse filter maintainer (@Huji in this case). Once all items are checked off, this task can be closed.

  • acewiki
  • bnwiki
  • ckbwiki
  • cswiki
  • dawiki
  • dewiki
  • enwiki
  • eswiki
  • fawiki
  • fiu-vrowiki
  • fiwiki
  • frwiki
  • glwiki
  • hiwiki
  • huwiki
  • idwiki
  • itwiki
  • jawiki
  • kkwiki
  • kowiki
  • nds-nlwiki
  • nlwiki
  • rowiki
  • ruwiki
  • scowiki
  • simplewiki
  • skwiki
  • svwiki
  • tawiki
  • ukwiki
  • zhwiki
  • eswiktionary
  • plwiktionary
  • ptwiktionary
  • metawiki
  • commonswiki

Event Timeline

Huji updated the task description. (Show Details)
Huji triaged this task as Medium priority.
Huji added a project: User-Huji.
Huji set Due Date to Nov 10 2020, 12:00 AM.

@Huji beware that you cannot be notified in wikis where you don't have an account (e,g. ro.wp)

@Strainu I did not know that.
I'm going to visit all those wikis so that CentralAuth generates as account for me.
When I will review the list in ~2 weeks, I will recheck those wikis not checked off to make sure I did not miss a notification.

Looking at this task again, what is the status? Should we check every wiki again, and/or send another announcement? @Huji

@Huji: Hi, the Due Date set for this open task is several months ago.
Can you please either update or reset the Due Date (by clicking Edit Task), or set the status of this task to resolved in case this task is done? Thanks.

@Strainu I did not know that.
I'm going to visit all those wikis so that CentralAuth generates as account for me.
When I will review the list in ~2 weeks, I will recheck those wikis not checked off to make sure I did not miss a notification.

@Huji Just flagging for general use Krinkle's js tool to assist account creation everywhere
//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Krinkle/Tools/Global_SUL.js

Huji updated the task description. (Show Details)
Huji updated the task description. (Show Details)

With much delay, this is done. One would say that maybe we should run another DB query, but I actually rechecked all of those wikis manually to see if there are any other filters using rmspecials that would need a correction and couldn't find any. If any other wiki has since created a filter, we can at least try to notify them with another user notice once T263024 actually goes live.