Background Information
This is the next batch of 4 wikis deployed as part of Parser Unification. This group includes the first LanguageConverter wikis.
This is the list of wikis notified, which includes all the LanguageConverter wikis.
A subset of these will be deployed, depending on confidence report results:
- 2026-04-23: banwiki, ganwiki
- 2026-04-29: iuwiki, shiwiki, tgwiki, tlywiki, wuuwiki, uzwiki
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KHSUM3UF1j3nVL_OlcCtO1dpzNou-92sUOggxP0IRuM/edit
Initial Evaluation
- Prepare the sample to run the visualdiff test
- Run/evaluate the visualdiff test
- Choose target wikis for this week's deploy
- Create a Confidence Report based on the results
Bug fixes
Based on initial visualdiff testing, these are tasks which affect Parsoid Read Views on these target wikis
- T419328: Legacy LanguageConverter uses top-level ::guessVariant on srwiki and banwiki
- T423739: BanConverter (Balinese language converter) includes XML tags for punctuation
- T422962: Parsoid doesn't look for red links inside language conversion blocks
- T422965: Parsoid LanguageConverter prepends 'alt=' on media
- T423747: Parsoid LanguageConverter sets top level `lang` and `dir` attributes to the base language not the variant
- T423744: Parsoid language converts inside style attributes
- T423742: Parsoid doesn't handle `<td style<nowiki>=</nowiki>...>` correctly on crhwiki
- T422966: Parsoid tokenizer doesn't allow table or list markup inside language conversion brackets
Notify wikipedias about upcoming Parsoid Read Views roll-out
- Create MassMessage distribution list, based on Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery/Wikipedia
- Be careful, the Wikidata MassMessage tool is missing some Wikipedias
- Distribution list for this week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Product_and_Technology/Parsoid_Read_Views/2026-04-20_Wikipedias
- Post using the MassMessage tool: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Product_and_Technology/Parsoid_Read_Views/Read_View_Announcement
- manually copy-and-paste the "signature" section from that page when using the tool
- other notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXYPJfJ5HTgWXD_h6MGMbw_6I64OeqPR1mrFrxlMnCs/edit
- MassMessage sent log: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=65970126
Deployment
- Write mediawiki-config patch for rollout:
- Deploy mediawiki-config patch
Post-deploy
- Monitor talk pages and mailing lists above for any follow up work needed
- Follow up work: