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[config] Make Edit Check (references) available to Phase 3 wikis
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Description

This task involves the work of enabling Reference Check at the last remaining Wikipedias.

Requirements

WikiDeployment timingTaskNotes
EnglishTuesday, 10 Feb. 2026T367343VE not available to newcomers there
German3 Feb. 2025T385205VE not available to newcomers there

Reference Check is enabled, by default, using the configurations that were used for the recent A/B experiment:

@edeng to populate a/b experiment configurations for QA to verify

Done

  • Deployment proposal is published | T413455
  • @Sdkb documents any concerns volunteers raise
  • @ppelberg decides what (if any) concerns are high enough priority to warrant being addressed before deployment
    • I'm (Peter) not aware of any concerns being raised that warrant delaying the deployment.
  • Editing Engineering populates the configuration values used for the a/b experiment so QA can verify
  • Editing Engineering deploys config to make Reference Check available by default to newcomers at en.wiki
    • Note: we assume volunteers will make any changes to the Check's default configurations should they see a reason to do so.

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Event Timeline

I started working with German Wikipedia on this.

Next step
We are preparing a deployment proposal to share with volunteers at en.wiki; this work is happening in Edit check at English Wikipedia Communication plan - Q4-24/25.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)
ppelberg added a subscriber: Sdkb.

Change #1238382 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Edit check: turn off the addReference a/b test on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1238382

Change #1238382 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Edit check: turn off the addReference a/b test on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1238382

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-02-10T21:03:40Z] <kemayo@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1238382|Edit check: turn off the addReference a/b test on enwiki (T367343 T416378)]], [[gerrit:1238383|Edit check: enable suggestions beta-feature on enwiki (T399611)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-02-10T21:05:55Z] <kemayo@deploy2002> kemayo: Backport for [[gerrit:1238382|Edit check: turn off the addReference a/b test on enwiki (T367343 T416378)]], [[gerrit:1238383|Edit check: enable suggestions beta-feature on enwiki (T399611)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-02-10T21:13:38Z] <kemayo@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1238382|Edit check: turn off the addReference a/b test on enwiki (T367343 T416378)]], [[gerrit:1238383|Edit check: enable suggestions beta-feature on enwiki (T399611)]] (duration: 09m 58s)

Ryasmeen edited projects, added Verified; removed Editing QA.