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Cleanup wikinews portal/incubator handling
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  • https://www.wikinews.org/ should including a closure notice
  • https://aa.wikinews.org and related pages should redirect to the wiknews.org portal rather than to a doomed experiment or broken page on Incubator (this shouldn't impact existing Wikinews sites, or the few wikis that do/did Wikinews in Wikipedia, only the default)

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

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

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

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

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

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

T421797#11957696

Now I need to find someone who would merge it.

Change #1284029 merged by jenkins-bot:

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

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

Change #1297268 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Redirect unknown wikinews languages to portal

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1297268

Change #1297268 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Redirect unknown wikinews languages to portal

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1297268

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-04T23:54:59Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1297268|Redirect unknown wikinews languages to portal (T427126)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-04T23:56:58Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> ladsgroup, pppery: Backport for [[gerrit:1297268|Redirect unknown wikinews languages to portal (T427126)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-05T00:02:01Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1297268|Redirect unknown wikinews languages to portal (T427126)]] (duration: 07m 02s)

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Pppery updated Other Assignee, added: Ladsgroup.