Changes to the commons upload-by-url allowlist make up a large amount of mediawiki config change requests. Based on the sitereq-l thread I started today, we should be able to convert that configuration setting into a mediawiki system message to allow Commons sysops to self-manage that allowlist.
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Change 758100 had a related patch set uploaded (by Majavah; author: Majavah):
[mediawiki/core@master] Allow managing upload-by-url allowlist as a system message
Hi @Majavah, this is sooo useful :) Thanks for coming up with this brilliant idea and uploading the patch!
Can you guess when this feature will be available for Commons admins? I ask this question because I have a bunch of url allowlisting tasks such as T300375: Add researcharchive.calacademy.org to the wgCopyUploadsDomains allowlist of Wikimedia Commons and I want to know if I can arrange for their deployment today or I had better wait. Thanks again
I'm not Majavah, but I have some experience with new features. I think "in 3 months" would be a realistic estimate (but, things happen, and it can be delayed for unexpected reasons).
In another words: "somtimes after someone +2's the attached patch". I've asked some people to review it, but can't force anyone to do so.
Change 758100 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Allow managing upload-by-url allowlist as a system message
Hi @4nn1l2 and others! The code change was merged to mediawiki/core a while back now, so this is now possible with a simple config change. Do you have preferences on when to enable that config switch? I'm happy to copy the current list from the config repo to Commons or leave that to you if you prefer that.
Hi @Majavah, I have posted a notice on local VP. There is a question: "would this also work with the MediaWiki Upload Wizard as it currently does for Flickr?" Thanks!
Also, I dumped the allowlist inside InitialiseSettings.php to an on-wiki page, please check if the syntax is correct.
Change 793766 had a related patch set uploaded (by Stang; author: Stang):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] commonswiki: Enable wgCopyUploadAllowOnWikiDomainConfig
Change 793766 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] commonswiki: Enable wgCopyUploadAllowOnWikiDomainConfig
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-05-23T20:13:16Z] <cjming@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:793766|commonswiki: Enable wgCopyUploadAllowOnWikiDomainConfig (T300407)]] (duration: 00m 52s)