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Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production
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We want to get away form synthetic main refs to be compatible with {{reflist}}. Now that we're confident that the code works well without them we can disable the usage in production.

Task
  • Enable wgCiteRemoveSyntheticRefsUnsafe in production by default ( planed for June 1st )

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lilients_WMDE renamed this task from Disable the creation of synthtic main refs in production to Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production.Fri, May 29, 9:09 AM

Change #1295454 had a related patch set uploaded (by Svantje Lilienthal; author: Svantje Lilienthal):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295454

Seems reasonable to go straight to default, since it should only affect the 12 wikis where sub-referencing is currently deployed.

Change #1295454 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295454

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T07:47:31Z] <wmde-fisch@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1295454|Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production (T427484)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T07:51:22Z] <wmde-fisch@deploy1003> lilients, wmde-fisch: Backport for [[gerrit:1295454|Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production (T427484)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T07:58:57Z] <wmde-fisch@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1295454|Disable the creation of synthetic main refs in production (T427484)]] (duration: 11m 26s)