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Delete the API Portal wiki
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Once T418492: Redirect API Portal wiki URLs to www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs is done and has soaked for a bit, we will be ready to delete the API Portal wiki.

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Clement_Goubert changed the task status from Open to Stalled.
Clement_Goubert triaged this task as Medium priority.
Clement_Goubert moved this task from Inbox to Backlog on the ServiceOps new board.

FWIW, from the db perspective, we don't really delete wikis (drop database), we only close them which means "an actual wiki but only stewards can edit it". I‌ personally want to change that and start getting rid of the databases too but we are not there yet :(

FWIW, from the db perspective, we don't really delete wikis (drop database), we only close them which means "an actual wiki but only stewards can edit it". I‌ personally want to change that and start getting rid of the databases too but we are not there yet :(

The usual process (not counting a previous one-time mass dropping of databases) is at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Delete_a_wiki. This will make MediaWiki claim that the wiki does not exist. Then the tables are truncated but left as-is.

FWIW, from the db perspective, we don't really delete wikis (drop database), we only close them which means "an actual wiki but only stewards can edit it". I‌ personally want to change that and start getting rid of the databases too but we are not there yet :(

The usual process (not counting a previous one-time mass dropping of databases) is at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Delete_a_wiki. This will make MediaWiki claim that the wiki does not exist. Then the tables are truncated but left as-is.

I‌ am aware of that page. We haven't done a delete wiki in the past six years: https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/commits/master/dblists/deleted.dblist (labstestwiki doesn't count, it never was part of the production) many part of documentation is either broken or outdated.