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Set $wgSignatureValidation to disallow [enwiki]
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Per this discussion, wgSignatureValidation should be changed to disallow on the English Wikipedia a month after affected users are notified.

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Change 994831 had a related patch set uploaded (by Houseblaster; author: Houseblaster):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings: Set wgSignatureValidation to disallow [enwiki]

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/994831

HouseBlaster changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jan 31 2024, 9:01 PM
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HouseBlaster triaged this task as Medium priority.
HouseBlaster moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.
HouseBlaster changed the task status from In Progress to Stalled.Feb 3 2024, 3:40 AM

Noting that the MassMessage was sent on February 2, meaning the earliest this should be implemented is March 2. March 2 is a Saturday, so I am tentatively planning on scheduling this during a deploy window on March 4.

HouseBlaster changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Feb 25 2024, 9:35 PM
HouseBlaster raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.

Scheduled for March 4 during the 21:00–22:00 UTC backport window.

Change 994831 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings: Set wgSignatureValidation to disallow [enwiki]

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/994831

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-03-04T21:12:03Z] <cjming@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:994831|InitialiseSettings: Set wgSignatureValidation to disallow [enwiki] (T355462)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-03-04T21:24:20Z] <cjming@deploy2002> cjming and houseblaster: Backport for [[gerrit:994831|InitialiseSettings: Set wgSignatureValidation to disallow [enwiki] (T355462)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-03-04T21:50:38Z] <cjming@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:994831|InitialiseSettings: Set wgSignatureValidation to disallow [enwiki] (T355462)]] (duration: 38m 34s)