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Disable GloballyUnusedFiles special page on commons
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It is very expensive and, since there are millions of files globally unused, it provides barely any useful information. Also we would need to migrate its query to Hadoop if we would keep it due to T398709: FY2025-26 WE 6.4.1: Move links tables of commons to a dedicated cluster.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Remove references to MostGloballyLinkedFilesmediawiki/extensions/MultimediaViewermaster+1 -2
Removed dropped special page from disabled query pagesoperations/mediawiki-configmaster+0 -1
Remove Special:GloballyUnusedFilesmediawiki/extensions/GlobalUsagemaster+2 -168
Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFilesoperations/mediawiki-configmaster+1 -0
Customize query in gerrit

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Zabe created this task.Jan 9 2026, 2:14 PM
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Zabe renamed this task from Disable GloballyUnusedFiles special page no commons to Disable GloballyUnusedFiles special page on commons.Jan 9 2026, 2:15 PM
Zabe moved this task from Triage to Ready on the DBA board.Jan 9 2026, 2:29 PM
A_smart_kitten subscribed.Jan 9 2026, 3:22 PM

See also T371662: Disable LonelyPages and Deadendpages on commons for a previous (currently-outstanding) request to disable some other special pages on Commons. (That task's history & patches contain some previous discussion on how that might be achieved from a technical POV)

gerritbot added a comment.Jan 10 2026, 4:53 PM

Change #1225088 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1225088

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 10 2026, 4:53 PM
Ladsgroup added a comment.Jan 12 2026, 9:33 AM

We could also maybe just drop the code IMHO.

In T414202#11507786, @A_smart_kitten wrote:

See also T371662: Disable LonelyPages and Deadendpages on commons for a previous (currently-outstanding) request to disable some other special pages on Commons. (That task's history & patches contain some previous discussion on how that might be achieved from a technical POV)

Thanks. For now, due to the load and blocking of the split of commons db, we simply just disable updates.

gerritbot added a comment.Jan 12 2026, 3:08 PM

Change #1225088 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1225088

Stashbot mentioned this in T371662: Disable LonelyPages and Deadendpages on commons.Jan 12 2026, 3:08 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-12T15:08:29Z] <zabe@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1225088|Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles (T414202)]], [[gerrit:1225118|Stop updating Deadendpages and Lonelypages on commons (T371662)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Jan 12 2026, 3:10 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-12T15:10:21Z] <zabe@deploy2002> zabe: Backport for [[gerrit:1225088|Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles (T414202)]], [[gerrit:1225118|Stop updating Deadendpages and Lonelypages on commons (T371662)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Stashbot added a comment.Jan 12 2026, 3:26 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-12T15:26:20Z] <zabe@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1225088|Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles (T414202)]], [[gerrit:1225118|Stop updating Deadendpages and Lonelypages on commons (T371662)]], [[gerrit:1225587|Correctly disable Special:Deadendpages on commons (T371662)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Jan 12 2026, 3:28 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-12T15:28:15Z] <zabe@deploy2002> zabe: Backport for [[gerrit:1225088|Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles (T414202)]], [[gerrit:1225118|Stop updating Deadendpages and Lonelypages on commons (T371662)]], [[gerrit:1225587|Correctly disable Special:Deadendpages on commons (T371662)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 12 2026, 3:30 PM
Stashbot added a comment.Jan 12 2026, 3:33 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-12T15:33:07Z] <zabe@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1225088|Disable updates for Special:GloballyUnusedFiles (T414202)]], [[gerrit:1225118|Stop updating Deadendpages and Lonelypages on commons (T371662)]], [[gerrit:1225587|Correctly disable Special:Deadendpages on commons (T371662)]] (duration: 06m 47s)

gerritbot added a comment.Jan 13 2026, 1:26 AM

Change #1225733 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalUsage@master] Remove Special:GloballyUnusedFiles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1225733

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 13 2026, 1:26 AM
A_smart_kitten added a project: GlobalUsage.Jan 13 2026, 11:34 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 14 2026, 9:43 AM

Change #1225733 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalUsage@master] Remove Special:GloballyUnusedFiles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1225733

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 14 2026, 10:32 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 14 2026, 11:20 PM

Change #1226962 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Removed dropped special page from disabled query pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226962

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 14 2026, 11:20 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 21 2026, 2:11 AM

Change #1226962 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Removed dropped special page from disabled query pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1226962

Stashbot added a comment.Jan 21 2026, 2:12 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-21T02:12:06Z] <zabe@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1226962|Removed dropped special page from disabled query pages (T414202)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Jan 21 2026, 2:14 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-21T02:14:18Z] <zabe@deploy2002> zabe: Backport for [[gerrit:1226962|Removed dropped special page from disabled query pages (T414202)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Stashbot added a comment.Jan 21 2026, 2:19 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-01-21T02:19:09Z] <zabe@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1226962|Removed dropped special page from disabled query pages (T414202)]] (duration: 07m 03s)

Zabe closed this task as Resolved.Jan 21 2026, 2:19 AM
Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 21 2026, 2:32 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Fri, Apr 10, 1:21 AM

Change #1269757 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):

[mediawiki/extensions/MultimediaViewer@master] Remove references to MostGloballyLinkedFiles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1269757

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Fri, Apr 10, 1:21 AM

Change #1269757 abandoned by Zabe:

[mediawiki/extensions/MultimediaViewer@master] Remove references to MostGloballyLinkedFiles

Reason:

lol no

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1269757

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Fri, Apr 10, 1:31 AM
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