In T406670 we added the automatic addition of a support vote for the proposer, when a wish is created.
Wishes created prior to that being released do not all have a vote by the proposer (although some do, where the proposer added it manually), so a maintenance script should be created that determines which wishes are missing these votes and adds them.
The proposers were pinged in the edit summaries, should they want to rescind their vote for whatever reason, or edit it to add a comment.
I used this script:
const api = new mw.Api(); const pages = await api.get( { action: 'query', list: 'communityrequests-wishes', crwstatuses: "community-opportunity|in-progress|long-term-opportunity|near-term-opportunity|prioritized|under-review", crwprop: 'proposer|created', crwend: "2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z", crwlimit: 500 } ); for ( const page of pages.query['communityrequests-wishes'] ) { const { proposer, created, crwtitle } = page; if ( proposer.match( /(?:\-WMF|\(WMF\))$/ ) ) { console.log( `Skipping staff vote ${proposer} ${crwtitle}` ); continue; } const votesContent = ( await api.get( { action: 'query', prop: 'revisions', titles: `${ crwtitle }/Votes`, rvprop: 'content', formatversion: 2 } ) )?.query?.pages?.[0]?.revisions?.[0]?.content || ''; const regexp = new RegExp( `\\|username=${proposer}\\|` ); if ( votesContent.match( regexp ) ) { console.log( `Already voted: ${proposer} ${crwtitle}` ); } else { api.edit( `${ crwtitle }/Votes`, ( rev ) => { return { text: `{{#CommunityRequests:vote|username=${proposer}|comment=|timestamp=${created}}}\n` + votesContent, summary: `Adding support vote on behalf of [[User:${proposer}|${proposer}]] ([[phab:T415231]])` } } ); } }
We're not done yet though. Through this I discovered a bug: /Votes pages can't manually be created by Wishlist managers, even though they can be edited. There's no need for that functionality outside this one-off use case, so it's probably not worth fixing. A proper PHP maintenance script would have gotten around this.
It's hacky but I guess what I'll do is add my own vote to the remaining wishes, so that the /Votes page is created. Then I'll rescind the vote (staff don't vote anyway!), and finally make the vote on behalf of the proposer.
Okay, I think we're done! The revised (and corrected script):
const api = new mw.Api(); const pages = await api.get( { action: 'query', list: 'communityrequests-wishes', crwstatuses: "community-opportunity|in-progress|long-term-opportunity|near-term-opportunity|prioritized|under-review", crwprop: 'proposer|created', crwend: "2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z", crwlimit: 600 } ); for ( const page of pages.query['communityrequests-wishes'] ) { const { proposer, created, crwtitle } = page; if ( proposer.match( /(?:\-WMF|\(WMF\))$/ ) ) { console.log( `Skipping staff vote ${ proposer } ${ crwtitle }` ); continue; } const entityId = crwtitle.match( /\/(W\d+)/ )[1]; const baseTitle = `Community Wishlist/${ entityId }`; const votesPageResponse = ( await api.get( { action: 'query', prop: 'revisions', titles: `${ baseTitle }/Votes`, rvprop: 'content', formatversion: 2 } ) ); if ( votesPageResponse?.query?.pages?.[0]?.missing ) { console.log( `Missing ${ baseTitle }/Votes` ); // Use the API to create the Votes subpage. await api.postWithEditToken( { action: 'wishlistvote', entity: entityId, voteaction: 'add' } ); // Then immediately remove the vote. await api.postWithEditToken( { action: 'wishlistvote', entity: entityId, voteaction: 'remove' } ); // Now we can proceed to adding the proposer's vote… } const votesContent = votesPageResponse?.query?.pages?.[0]?.revisions?.[0]?.content || ''; const regexp = new RegExp( `\\|username=${ RegExp.escape( proposer ) }\\|` ); if ( votesContent.match( regexp ) ) { console.log( `Already voted: ${ proposer } ${ crwtitle }` ); } else { await api.edit( `${ baseTitle }/Votes`, ( rev ) => { return { text: `{{#CommunityRequests:vote|username=${ proposer }|comment=|timestamp=${ created }}}\n` + votesContent, summary: `Adding support vote on behalf of [[User:${ proposer }|${ proposer }]] ([[phab:T415231]])` } } ); } }
There were a couple of hiccups and bad edits I needed to fix manually, but we should be all set now. If you care to go through the contribs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/MusikAnimal_(WMF)&target=MusikAnimal+%28WMF%29&dir=prev&offset=20260305024114&limit=498
No QA involved here, unless there's desire to verify each and everyone of those wishes by hand, which I assume there's not :-P
Resolving!