Reason
Unmaintained, with the last version noted on-wiki from 2014 and supporting "MediaWiki 1.17+". Given this extension requires database changes, and the drastic changes that have happened in recent versions of MW, it's probably best not to leave this lying around to potentially accidentally destroy people's databases.
To-do list
- This task
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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).no known maintainers - Add Phabricator project MediaWiki-extensions-Farmer as a tag for this task, and remove MediaWiki-extensions-Other.
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- On-wiki documentation
- Archive documentation on mediawiki.org (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Farmer): replace page contents with {{Archived extension|5310201|task=T325999}}.
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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 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21676611) 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 (generally per edit history)
- add qualifier end time (P582) = the YYYY-MM-DD (same date as above) to instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426)
- 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 MediaWiki-extensions-Farmer for the extension.
- Edit Phabricator project MediaWiki-extensions-Farmer description for the extension with a link to this ticket.
- Translatewiki.net/translations
- Remove from translatewiki.net (groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-extensions.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 (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/g/mediawiki/extensions/Farmer).
- Archive the Diffusion repository for the extension/skin: (rEFRM extension-Farmer).
- Delete the GitHub mirror: (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Farmer).