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Start opting in new accounts on the pilot wikis (arwiki, frwiki, zhwiki, idwiki and viwiki)
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Description

On Monday, April 13 (or pending resolving any blockers), we plan to start opting in new accounts on the pilot wikis (arwiki, frwiki, zhwiki, idwiki and viwiki) to the ReadingLists beta feature.

This is the next step after T420878.

'wgReadingListsBetaDefaultForNewAccountsAfter' => [
    'default' => false,
    'testwiki' => '20260409200000',
    'arwiki' => '20260413130000',
    'frwiki' => '20260413130000',
    'idwiki' => '20260413130000',
    'viwiki' => '20260413130000',
    'zhwiki' => '20260413130000',
]

Acceptance criteria

  • When a brand new account is created on these wikis (ar, fr, zh, id, vi), they will automatically have the reading list beta feature enabled. They can create their account and immediately begin saving articles

Event Timeline

Change #1269475 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aude; author: Aude):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on testwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1269475

Volker_E set Due Date to Apr 13 2026, 7:00 AM.Apr 9 2026, 6:14 PM

Change #1269475 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on testwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1269475

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-09T20:07:52Z] <aude@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1269475|Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on testwiki (T422833)]], [[gerrit:1047441|Add new protection level (edituserprotected) for nowiki (T367943)]], [[gerrit:1268680|Turn on Parsoid Read Views for dewiki (T422524)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-09T20:09:35Z] <aude@deploy1003> cscott, jhsoby, aude: Backport for [[gerrit:1269475|Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on testwiki (T422833)]], [[gerrit:1047441|Add new protection level (edituserprotected) for nowiki (T367943)]], [[gerrit:1268680|Turn on Parsoid Read Views for dewiki (T422524)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-09T20:16:57Z] <aude@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1269475|Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on testwiki (T422833)]], [[gerrit:1047441|Add new protection level (edituserprotected) for nowiki (T367943)]], [[gerrit:1268680|Turn on Parsoid Read Views for dewiki (T422524)]] (duration: 09m 04s)

aude set the point value for this task to 1.

Change #1270016 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aude; author: Aude):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on pilot wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1270016

Change #1270016 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on pilot wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1270016

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-13T13:03:47Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1270016|Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on pilot wikis (T422833)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-13T13:21:26Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> aude, lucaswerkmeister-wmde: Backport for [[gerrit:1270016|Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on pilot wikis (T422833)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-04-13T13:37:56Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1270016|Opt-in new accounts to ReadingLists beta feature on pilot wikis (T422833)]] (duration: 34m 09s)