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Could you disable ISBN / RFC / PMID magic links at AF.wikipedia? We are ready, all usages have been replaced by the appropriate templates. As you can see in the village pump: https://af.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Geselshoekie&oldid=2885484#Deaktiveer_magiese_skakels , the change has mayority support bij local community.

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Pppery edited projects, added Wikimedia-Site-requests; removed MediaWiki-Parser.
Pppery added a subscriber: cscott.

@Jcb: In the future, please always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting such site configuration changes. Thanks!

@Aklapper , I did exactly what I was told to do here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Quiddity#Phabricator_subtask

I am unfamiliar with Phabricator. So I just try to follow instructions. But if I get conflicting instructions from different users, I am getting lost.

Change #1252684 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable magic links on afwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1252684

[FWIW I'm not currently convinced that it's strictly necessary to tell task-filers to "always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes" as often as currently seems to be being done by folks. If e.g. a site-request task is mistagged, it can be (and, at least in my personal experience, is) easily fixed by folks that're more familiar with Phab; and I don't think that we should necessarily require that folks e.g. 'know' exactly what tags to use for a task that they're creating (xref T95962#11194848). & with that in mind, while I'm sure it's being done with the best of intentions, I'm not currently convinced that it's necessarily beneficial to send that sort of message that could e.g. come across as chastising folks for not doing things the 'right way' on Phab. But I am admittedly getting slightly offtopic for this specific request.]

Change #1252684 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable magic links on afwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1252684

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-24T20:03:25Z] <jforrester@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1242542|Generate our own logo thumbnails rather than using MediaWiki's (T414048)]], [[gerrit:1250095|Enwikinews: Only enable flaggedRevs in article namespace (T418066)]], [[gerrit:1252684|Disable magic links on afwiki (T420142)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-24T20:05:42Z] <jforrester@deploy2002> jforrester, pppery: Backport for [[gerrit:1242542|Generate our own logo thumbnails rather than using MediaWiki's (T414048)]], [[gerrit:1250095|Enwikinews: Only enable flaggedRevs in article namespace (T418066)]], [[gerrit:1252684|Disable magic links on afwiki (T420142)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-24T20:12:47Z] <jforrester@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1242542|Generate our own logo thumbnails rather than using MediaWiki's (T414048)]], [[gerrit:1250095|Enwikinews: Only enable flaggedRevs in article namespace (T418066)]], [[gerrit:1252684|Disable magic links on afwiki (T420142)]] (duration: 09m 22s)