Reason
Flagged incompatible with MediaWiki 1.38 or later. No code commits in years
To-do list
- This task
- 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).
- Add Phabricator project MediaWiki-extensions-ImageCompare 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:ImageCompare): replace page contents with {{Archived extension|last revision id before archiving|task=T353968}}
- 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/Q59602387) 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/skin (generally per edit history)
- add qualifier end time (P582) = the YYYY-MM-DD (same date as above) to instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426)/MediaWiki skin (Q21996535)
- Phabricator
- Mark all Phabricator tasks for the extension either Declined or Invalid. Add a comment pointing to this task when doing so for reference.
- Archive Phabricator project MediaWiki-extensions-ImageCompare for the extension.
- Edit Phabricator project MediaWiki-extensions-ImageCompare description for the extension/skin 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 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/ImageCompare ).
- Deactivate the Diffusion repository for the extension/skin: (rEICO).
- Delete the GitHub mirror: (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-imagecompare).