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	Oct 15 2025, 2:25 PM

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Description

Error

purgeExpiredMentorStatus.php is failing in nawiki because the GrowthMentors.json page was deleted

message

nawiki Key <code>Mentors</code> is missing

Impact

The script stops processing wikis at nawiki

Notes

This is a fallout from the changes in T347152

Acceptance Criteria:

Remove Growth Experiments from nawiki.
Create a subtask (research spike) on how to deal with this more holistically in the future

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	maintenance(purgeExpiredMentorStatus): dont bail out on wikis with invalid config	Sergio Gimeno	mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments	master	+18 -8

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T407751: Remove closed wikis from GrowthExperiments dblist
Mentioned Here: T347152: [Epic] Structured mentor list: Migrate mentor status to GrowthMentors.json

Event Timeline

Sgs created this task.Oct 15 2025, 2:25 PM

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Sgs moved this task from Inbox to Estimated tasks backlog on the Growth-Team board.Oct 15 2025, 2:26 PM

KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 15 2025, 4:48 PM

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 15 2025, 4:51 PM

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Aklapper added a project: GrowthExperiments-Mentorship.Oct 15 2025, 5:36 PM

Change #1196877 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sergio Gimeno; author: Sergio Gimeno):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] maintenance(purgeExpiredMentorStatus): dont bail out on wikis with invalid config

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1196877

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 17 2025, 10:11 AM

Sgs claimed this task.Oct 17 2025, 10:12 AM

Sgs edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 1); removed: Growth-Team.

Sgs moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 1) board.

Michael mentioned this in T407751: Remove closed wikis from GrowthExperiments dblist.Oct 20 2025, 1:53 PM

Change #1196877 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] maintenance(purgeExpiredMentorStatus): dont bail out on wikis with invalid config

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1196877

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 20 2025, 2:31 PM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.24; 2025-10-21).Oct 20 2025, 3:00 PM

Sgs moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 1) board.Oct 21 2025, 9:40 AM

Both nawiki and pihwiki which are locked belong to group0 so I will monitor the script run today once the wmf.24 is fully deployed and confirm that it's running correctly.

DMburugu moved this task from FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 1 to FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 2 on the Growth-Team board.Oct 22 2025, 2:23 PM

DMburugu edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 2); removed: Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 1).

Sgs moved this task from Incoming to Doing on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 2) board.Oct 22 2025, 4:14 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-29T16:20:02Z] <sergi0> sgimeno@deploy2002:~$ mwscript-k8s --comment="T407366" --dblist="growthexperiments" --follow -- GrowthExperiments:purgeExpiredMentorStatus.php (T407366)

I run it manually and it finished correctly, tentatively resolving,

purgeExpiredMentorStatus.php fails with in nawiki with error "Key <code>Mentors</code> is missing"Closed, ResolvedPublicPRODUCTION ERRORActions