On some templates, there is a no op if clause which is causing Entity Usage being subscribed, for no op.
Engineering:
Coomunications:
June 2026
Possibly noop templates list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EoAmAXX7-pjWM9sXSAIaeWDGp_0yOb4meRcxNC2ICxg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T400696 FY25-26 WE1.4.1 RecentChanges database performance improvements | |||
| Open | None | T400698 Reduce noisy wikidata injected rows to recentchanges | |||
| Open | None | T401284 [Epic] Reduce Change Propagation Noise from Wikidata to Client Wikis | |||
| Resolved | SuzanneWood-WMDE | T410630 Investigate low hanging fruit for further change propagation reduction | |||
| Resolved | Neslihan_Turan_WMDE | T416825 [ENG & COM] Communicate for fixing noop templates |
Possibly noop templates list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EoAmAXX7-pjWM9sXSAIaeWDGp_0yOb4meRcxNC2ICxg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Could this list be made public sooner rather than later? Fixing bad templates should primarily be the task of the community, but the community can’t do this task if it’s not aware what the task is. Maybe there are some low-hanging fruits that are easily fixable even without any guidance from WMDE.
Heyy, thanks for the suggestion. Yes, they will be reached pretty soon, we are on it.
Wikis have been messaged to the Template Talk page, with a suggestion for the edit to make
Which Template Talk page? The Google doc is still non-public, and there’s no other list referenced in this task.
Here is the list of all templates communicated and you can see the ones fixed as well.