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Remove Wikinews from various multilingual portals
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Koavf
Mar 31 2026, 2:00 AM
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Per https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XOP5OXEYO2XLQJNGFJHCYOPJT5LPTF7P/, all editions of Wikinews will be marked read-only on 2026-05-04. The following portals should have it removed:

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
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Bump portals to HEADoperations/mediawiki-configmaster+1 -1
wikinews.org: Add a notice of project closurewikimedia/portalsmaster+20 -0
Bump portals to HEADoperations/mediawiki-configmaster+1 -1
delete WikiNews from every portal except wikinews.orgwikimedia/portalsmaster+0 -36
Remove Wikinews from wikimedia.orgwikimedia/portalsmaster+0 -5
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Koavf created this task.Mar 31 2026, 2:00 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMar 31 2026, 2:00 AM
Bugreporter added a project: Wikimedia-Portals.Mar 31 2026, 2:02 AM
Koavf added a comment.Mar 31 2026, 2:04 AM

Related: T421796

Koavf mentioned this in T421796: Close 31 editions of Wikinews on 2026-05-04 (make them read-only).Mar 31 2026, 2:04 AM
Novem_Linguae subscribed.Apr 3 2026, 9:59 AM
Dringsim subscribed.Apr 27 2026, 9:16 AM

and also https://wikimedia.org/ ?

Novem_Linguae added a subtask: T421796: Close 31 editions of Wikinews on 2026-05-04 (make them read-only).May 3 2026, 12:12 AM
gerritbot added a comment.May 3 2026, 12:45 AM

Change #1281903 had a related patch set uploaded (by Novem Linguae; author: Novem Linguae):

[wikimedia/portals@master] delete WikiNews from every portal except wikinews.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281903

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 3 2026, 12:45 AM
gerritbot added a comment.May 3 2026, 1:00 AM

Change #1281903 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/portals@master] delete WikiNews from every portal except wikinews.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281903

Novem_Linguae added a comment.EditedMay 3 2026, 1:01 AM

Needs a manual deploy before we can close the ticket.

gerritbot added a comment.May 3 2026, 1:12 AM

Change #1281907 had a related patch set uploaded (by Novem Linguae; author: Novem Linguae):

[wikimedia/portals@master] delete WikiNews from wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281907

gerritbot added a comment.May 3 2026, 10:08 AM

Change #1281907 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/portals@master] Remove Wikinews from wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281907

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 3 2026, 10:31 AM
A_smart_kitten subscribed.May 3 2026, 10:34 AM

I guess another question might be about what will happen to the portal at https://wikinews.org.

Novem_Linguae added a comment.May 3 2026, 10:45 AM

I was told that that https://wikinews.org will remain up. I suppose https://wikinews.org will become the main entry point for folks that want to read the archived Wikinews wikis.

A_smart_kitten updated the task description. (Show Details)May 3 2026, 11:56 AM
Bugreporter subscribed.May 4 2026, 4:01 AM
In T421797#11883970, @A_smart_kitten wrote:

I guess another question might be about what will happen to the portal at https://wikinews.org.

In T421797#11883974, @Novem_Linguae wrote:

I was told that that https://wikinews.org will remain up. I suppose https://wikinews.org will become the main entry point for folks that want to read the archived Wikinews wikis.

It should instead be updated to clearly say Wikinews is no longer an active project.

Ladsgroup changed the status of subtask T421796: Close 31 editions of Wikinews on 2026-05-04 (make them read-only) from Open to In Progress.May 5 2026, 12:16 AM
gerritbot added a comment.May 6 2026, 11:00 PM

Change #1284014 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup; author: Ladsgroup):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Bump portals to HEAD

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284014

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 6 2026, 11:00 PM
gerritbot added a comment.May 6 2026, 11:05 PM

Change #1284014 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Bump portals to HEAD

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284014

gerritbot added a comment.May 6 2026, 11:30 PM

Change #1284029 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup; author: Ladsgroup):

[wikimedia/portals@master] [DNM] [Very untested] wikinews.org: Add a notice of proejct closure

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284029

Ladsgroup closed subtask T421796: Close 31 editions of Wikinews on 2026-05-04 (make them read-only) as Resolved.May 7 2026, 11:05 AM
Ericliu1912 subscribed.Sun, May 17, 2:27 AM
Ladsgroup subscribed.Wed, May 27, 12:15 AM

Notice for wikinews.org

image.png (1,191×672 px, 45 KB)

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Ladsgroup mentioned this in T427126: Cleanup wikinews portal/incubator handling.Wed, May 27, 12:16 AM
neriah subscribed.Wed, May 27, 12:22 AM

@Ladsgroup Could you also send a demo in light mode? I assume most visitors to the site use the light theme...

Ladsgroup added a comment.Wed, May 27, 12:25 AM

Right, Thanks for it:

image.png (1,501×720 px, 53 KB)

Bildschirmfoto am 2026-05-27 um 02.23.46.png (1,440×3,200 px, 415 KB)

Ladsgroup added a comment.Wed, May 27, 12:28 AM

I removed the period at the end. It seems way out of place.

gerritbot added a comment.Fri, May 29, 6:37 PM

Change #1284029 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/portals@master] wikinews.org: Add a notice of project closure

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1284029

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Fri, May 29, 7:30 PM
Novem_Linguae added a comment.Mon, Jun 1, 10:15 AM

I don't see the latest patch on https://www.wikinews.org/. Probably needs to be deployed.

Ladsgroup added a comment.Mon, Jun 1, 10:43 AM

Yeah, I can deploy it a bit later today. didn't want to deploy on Friday.

gerritbot added a comment.Mon, Jun 1, 2:13 PM

Change #1295930 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup; author: Ladsgroup):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Bump portals to HEAD

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295930

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mon, Jun 1, 2:13 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mon, Jun 1, 2:19 PM

Change #1295930 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Bump portals to HEAD

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295930

Stashbot added a comment.Mon, Jun 1, 2:27 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T14:27:16Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Synchronized portals/wikipedia.org/assets: Deploy portals (T421797) (duration: 06m 10s)

Ladsgroup closed this task as Resolved.Mon, Jun 1, 2:28 PM
Ladsgroup claimed this task.

https://www.wikinews.org/?sdfwerwe

Stashbot added a comment.Mon, Jun 1, 2:30 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T14:30:00Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Synchronized portals: Deploy portals (T421797) (duration: 02m 43s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mon, Jun 1, 2:30 PM
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