GrowthExperiments has the initWikiConfig.php maintenance script, which was used when scaling Growth features to all Wikipedias. It populates community configuration with reasonable defaults based on Wikidata. Unfortunately, it is written to use legacy community configuration. Within this task, we should discontinue that script, as it is not useful for small wikis (and all large+medium wikis have Growth features).
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Remove maintenance/initWikiConfig.php | mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments | master | +0 -398 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences | |||
| Open | None | T327563 Enable volunteers to configure Edit Check in ways that align with project policies and norms | |||
| Open | None | T327655 Epic: Migration of some GrowthExperiments features into MediaWiki core | |||
| Resolved | Urbanecm_WMF | T323811 [EPIC] Community configuration 2.0: Factor Community configuration out of GrowthExperiments | |||
| Resolved | DMburugu | T367429 [Epic] FY 2024-25 Growth Maintenance Work | |||
| In Progress | Sgs | T367574 [Epic] Remove code for Special:EditGrowthConfig | |||
| Resolved | Urbanecm_WMF | T384225 Discontinue the initWikiConfig.php maintenance script in GrowthExperiments |
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I'm undecided on what would be the right path forward. The script was really useful during the scaling (Growth-Deployments), but this was mostly because at that time, we were deploying to large or mid-sized wikis. Once we got to the very small wikis, even Wikidata didn't have enough information to populate the default configuration with. All sufficiently large wikis have Growth features by now; while we do have wikis we're missing, those wikis are recently created, and it is fairly likely the init script wouldn't really be useful on those projects (producing mostly static defaults).
Moving this to Needs Discussion pending a decision. @KStoller-WMF, I'm also adding this to our next 1:1.
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Given that all new Wikipedias we may scale GrowthExperiences to will be quite small, it seems like this maintenance script will provide little value and it doesn't seem worth migrating. I'm OK with discontinuing (although others should feel free to object if they think it's worth spending time on migrating the script).
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Based on a discussion between Kirsten and me in our 1:1, I',m moving this to sprint, we will be removing the code.
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Change #1113838 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Remove maintenance/initWikiConfig.php
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Change #1113838 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Remove maintenance/initWikiConfig.php