Requesting GitLab account activation for [essa237]
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	Dec 14 2025, 5:13 PM

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GitLab account activation

To activate your account, please sign into GitLab and then answer the following question:

Developer account / GitLab username: Vanessa082

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[essa237] User has provided the following: developer account username

User has an existing developer account, and has used it to log in to GitLab

If any of the following criteria are met, user should be approved immediately:

User has a history of contributions on-wiki, on Gerrit, Phabricator, etc.
User is known to the admin
User is vouched for by a known contributor
User is a member of a movement organization

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Mentioned In: T412670: Requesting GitLab account activation for [NkwadaNora]

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Essa237 created this task.Dec 14 2025, 5:13 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptDec 14 2025, 5:13 PM

Could some better process please be found here than filing lots of account approval tasks with little context?

I think this is part of some mentorship program (Wiki-Mentor-Africa?). In that case it would be better to structure things so that the mentors add their mentees to Trusted-Contributors (which will automatically trigger a GitLab account approval) themselves, rather than requiring me or the Release Engineering team to do it.

@Pppery I still have not been granted access

Essa237 reopened this task as Open.Dec 14 2025, 8:14 PM

Whoops, I was so focused on bemoaning the process failure that I forgot to actually push the button to approve you despite intending to do so. Try again please.

@Pppery, I am sorry for reopening this. I do not have your user name on the channel. Please, I have my team mates who have not had access yet. Please, can I provide you with a list of their names so you can authenticate

I am not an official mentor in any way, or affiliated with whatever program you're in. I'm doing this as a courtesy, to try to be helpful. And the repeated pleading for me to take action (rather than addressing the process failure I quoted above) has exhausted my willingness to care.

Actually you can approve your own teammates. Assuming their LDAP accounts are connected to their Phabricator accounts, you can go to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/members/3104/, click "add members", type their Phabricator usernames, and click "add members" to save.

Then wait 5 minutes and it should trigger https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Gitlab-account-approval to automatically approve them.

Pppery mentioned this in T412670: Requesting GitLab account activation for [NkwadaNora].Dec 15 2025, 3:25 PM

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