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Enable the Contribute menu on new Wikipedias automatically
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After enabling the Contribute entry point to the existing wikis where section translation was enabled (T371692), we may want to enable it by default when a new Wikipedia is created.

Currently, new Wikipedias get Content translation available automatically and access to the mobile experience with Section Translation is provided with a semi-automated process (T371420).

As part of this ticket, we want to (a) provide an automatic (or semi-automatic, at least) process that enables the Contribute entry point on newly created wikis, and (b) check the recently created wikis thar were not covered with the previous enablements and enable the feature there too.

Event Timeline

Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Change #1160128 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; author: KartikMistry):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable the Contribute menu on new Wikipedias automatically

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1160128

Change #1160128 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable the Contribute menu on new Wikipedias automatically

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1160128

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-06-18T07:31:38Z] <kartik@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1160128|Enable the Contribute menu on new Wikipedias automatically (T395031 T381371)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-06-18T07:33:53Z] <kartik@deploy1003> kartik: Backport for [[gerrit:1160128|Enable the Contribute menu on new Wikipedias automatically (T395031 T381371)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-06-18T07:43:34Z] <kartik@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1160128|Enable the Contribute menu on new Wikipedias automatically (T395031 T381371)]] (duration: 11m 56s)

We've deployed configuration that will enable the contribute menu automatically to newly created Wikipedias from now.

@KartikMistry, is there a way to test this since it only occurs when a new Wikipedia is created, or can I resolve this for now, and we'll wait to see if there's an issue?

GMikesell-WMF changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 9 2025, 8:43 PM
GMikesell-WMF moved this task from Needs QA to In-progress on the LPL Hypothesis board.

@GMikesell-WMF We can resolve this as new Wikipedia might take long time to be created and there is no fixed timeline for that. I tested the config and it is working fine.