Reason
See T27482: Merge RenameUser into core.
(If we do not backport the change to 1.39 LTS, this should happen once 1.39 is EOL in November 2025)
To-do list
- This task
- Add maintainers of that extension 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).
- Add Phabricator project MediaWiki-User-rename as a tag for this task, and remove MediaWiki-extensions-Other/Other-skins as appropriate.
- On-wiki documentation
- Archive documentation on mediawiki.org (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser): replace page contents with {{Archived extension|last revision id before archiving|task=T331218}}
- Remove <translate> from the documentation page, 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/Q21678251) 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)
PhabricatorMark all Phabricator tasks for the extension either Declined or Invalid. Add a comment pointing to this task when doing so for reference.(This component is now part of MediaWiki core; actionable Tasks should not be closed).-
Archive Phabricator project MediaWiki-User-rename for the extension. -
Edit Phabricator project MediaWiki-User-rename 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).
- Remove manifest/other references from mediawiki/vagrant.
- 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/r/admin/repos/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser).
- Archive the Diffusion repository for the extension: rEREN.
- Delete the GitHub mirror: (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Renameuser).