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Requesting access to run queries on superset.wikimedia.org for Nik Gkountas
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Description

Requestor provided information and prerequisites

Complete ALL items below as the individual person who is requesting access:

  • Wikimedia developer account username: Nik Gkountas
  • Email address: ngkountas@wikimedia.org
  • SSH public key (must be a separate key from Wikimedia cloud SSH access): ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAILInfdooHG0VTLNV6TSlNiYTvNpgtWuM7Vy25CGqngKA ngkountas@wikimedia.org
  • Requested group membership: analytics-privatedata-users level 2
  • Reason for access: Tracking ContentTranslation (and other) analytics
  • Name of approving party (manager for WMF/WMDE staff): Niklas Laxström
  • Ensure you have signed the L3 Wikimedia Server Access Responsibilities document: Done
  • Please coordinate obtaining a comment of approval on this task from the approving party.

SRE Clinic Duty Confirmation Checklist for Access Requests

This checklist should be used on all access requests to ensure that all steps are covered, including expansion to existing access. Please double check the step has been completed before checking it off.

This section is to be confirmed and completed by a member of the SRE team.

  • - User has signed the L3 Acknowledgement of Wikimedia Server Access Responsibilities Document.
  • - User has a valid NDA on file with WMF legal. (All WMF Staff/Contractor hiring are covered by NDA. Other users can be validated via the NDA tracking sheet)
  • - User has provided the following: developer account username, email address, and full reasoning for access (including what commands and/or tasks they expect to perform)
  • - User has provided a public SSH key. This ssh key pair should only be used for WMF cluster access, and not shared with any other service (this includes not sharing with WMCS access, no shared keys.)
  • - The provided SSH key has been confirmed out of band and is verified not being used in WMCS. was already present in data.yaml
  • - access request (or expansion) has sign off of WMF sponsor/manager (sponsor for volunteers, manager for wmf staff)
  • - access request (or expansion) has sign off of group approver indicated by the approval field in data.yaml Not needed for WMF staff

For additional details regarding access request requirements, please see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_shell_access

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

Event Timeline

  • confirming L3 has been signed all the way back in 2020.

Hi @Nikerabbit do you approve of this request as the listed manager?

Dzahn changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Nov 14 2025, 6:33 PM
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@ngkountas just to be sure, when you say analytics-privatedata-users level 2 you mean with kerberos?

Change #1206416 had a related patch set uploaded (by Volans; author: Volans):

[operations/puppet@production] admin: edit user ngkountas

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206416

linking to T405517 as another practical example

Change #1206416 merged by Volans:

[operations/puppet@production] admin: edit user ngkountas

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206416

@ngkountas patch merged, it should get live within 30 minutes from now. Once you've verified all works as expected please resolve this task.

Thank you @Volans, I can now run queries on super.wikimedia.org properly! Thanks to everyone involved! This task can be now resolved.

Volans claimed this task.