Thanks to @Ladsgroup's work to T253439: Eliminate the toil in WMF wiki creation, wiki creation is now easier than it had been.
However, there are still several things that could possibly become even easier. The two most notable ones are the connection of the new wiki to Wikidata and to cxserver, the service that makes using the Content Translation extension possible (the latter is only relevant for Wikipedias at the moment, while the former is relevant for almost all wikis).
These two things usually get enabled within about a week after the wiki is created, and requires some manual deployment steps. Ideally, this time should be somewhere between zero minutes and maybe ten minutes from the wiki's creation.
I'm not a true expert in how wiki creation works, but some knowledgeable people told me that it's probably doable without making very huge changes, and suggested that I create a task, so here it is. I'm putting Wikidata, Parsoid and cxserver together because they are so closely related. In addition, Content Translation cannot fully function without Wikidata and Parsoid, so whenever this happens, Wikidata and Parsoid have to be done first, and cxserver deployment immediately after that.
- Wikidata
- Parsoid
- cxserver