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Esanders triaged this task as Unbreak Now! priority.Apr 2 2026, 10:59 AM

Change #1266984 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Fix suggestion mode availability check

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1266984

Change #1266985 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.22] Fix suggestion mode availability check

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1266985

Change #1266984 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Fix suggestion mode availability check

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1266984

Change #1266985 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.22] Fix suggestion mode availability check

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1266985

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T13:51:25Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1266985|Fix suggestion mode availability check (T422143)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T13:54:47Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1266985|Fix suggestion mode availability check (T422143)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T13:58:53Z] <esanders@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1266985|Fix suggestion mode availability check (T422143)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T14:09:16Z] <esanders@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1266985|Fix suggestion mode availability check (T422143)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T14:56:38Z] <swfrench@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Manual sync-world to pick up 1267062, 1266985 - T422143

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T14:59:40Z] <swfrench@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Manual full-rebuild sync-world to pick up 1267062, 1266985 - T422143

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T15:26:28Z] <swfrench@deploy1003> sync-world aborted: Manual full-rebuild sync-world to pick up 1267062, 1266985 - T422143 (duration: 26m 48s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T15:33:00Z] <swfrench@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Manual full-rebuild sync-world to pick up 1267062, 1266985 (attempt 2) - T422143

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T15:50:05Z] <swfrench@deploy1003> swfrench: Manual full-rebuild sync-world to pick up 1267062, 1266985 (attempt 2) - T422143 synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

I was wondering what was going on here. Good data point for us.

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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-02T16:02:56Z] <swfrench@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Manual full-rebuild sync-world to pick up 1267062, 1266985 (attempt 2) - T422143 (duration: 29m 56s)

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to Needs Triage.Apr 2 2026, 4:04 PM

The fix should be deployed now (thanks swfrench!); lowering priority and leaving the rest to y’all.

It was also quite visible in the error stats, as increase(mediawiki_editcheck_errors_total[5m]) shows us:

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DLynch added a project: Editing QA.

The specific thing that made suggestions available was if you were a user who was also eligible for a check. So the testing criteria is:

  1. On a wikipedia (so checks are enabled)
  2. As a user who could see a check (config-dependent, but generally: <100 edits or logged out)
  3. As a user who does not have suggestion mode enabled via the beta feature, and who hasn't toggled suggestions off while the beta feature was enabled

If all that's true, you would see suggestions. You wouldn't see the suggestions toggle, however.