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Grant Access to analytics-privatedata-users for Silvia G
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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:
  • Email address:
  • SSH public key (must be a separate key from Wikimedia cloud SSH access):
  • Requested group membership:
  • Reason for access:
  • Name of approving party (manager for WMF/WMDE staff):
  • Ensure you have signed the L3 Wikimedia Server Access Responsibilities document:
  • 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.
  • - 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

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


  • The username of your existing account on wikitech.wikimedia.org: Silvia G
  • Do you currently have shell access (Yes/No)? No
  • Purpose (Specify which service you need to get access to, e.g. Icinga, Grafana, Superset etc): View Superset dashboards and run some code that requires "import wmfdata as wmf"
  • The specific group that you want to be added to (optional): analytics-privatedata-users

Event Timeline

The data provided in this task is partially outdated so I wonder about the user journey / where that came from?
The form to use nowadays is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/8/ linked from https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRE/Production_access#Access_Request_Process linked from https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Platform/Data_access linked from W2984 shown on the Phabricator default frontpage under "Welcome to Wikimedia Phabricator! > I need access or permissions to...".

In case it is useful: the MediaWiki page @Rmaung pointed out was the first thing that came up for me when I googled "Request Access Superset Wikimedia", so it might be good to update that one too? In any case, I'm super happy to learn about the proper process, so thank you, @Aklapper!

andrea.denisse changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Dec 3 2025, 6:38 AM

In case it is useful: the MediaWiki page @Rmaung pointed out was the first thing that came up for me when I googled "Request Access Superset Wikimedia", so it might be good to update that one too? In any case, I'm super happy to learn about the proper process, so thank you, @Aklapper!

Hi Silvia, could you please update the task with the fields from the https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/8/ form?

andrea.denisse changed the task status from In Progress to Stalled.Dec 4 2025, 10:41 PM

In case it is useful: the MediaWiki page @Rmaung pointed out was the first thing that came up for me when I googled "Request Access Superset Wikimedia", so it might be good to update that one too? In any case, I'm super happy to learn about the proper process, so thank you, @Aklapper!

Hi Silvia, could you please update the task with the fields from the https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/8/ form?

Hi Siliva, I've updated the task description with the proper form fields.

In order to proceed with your request I need you fill them out and Sign the L3 Wikimedia Server Access Responsibilities document.

Thanks!

jcrespo added a subscriber: andrea.denisse.

updating ticket because requested group analytics-privatedate-users isn't an LDAP group.

Still to be determined which level 1, 2 or 3 is requested (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Platform/Data_access#Analytics_shell_groups_explained)

@SEgt-WMF: Please reply or otherwise this request will get declined. Thanks.

elukey subscribed.

Declining for the moment since there seems to be no updates in a while. Please reopen if needeed! :)