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Create Wikipedia Magahi
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Description

The language committee has approved the creation of Wikipedia Magahi.

  • Request page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Magahi
  • Language code: mag
  • Site URL: mag.wikipedia.org
  • Directionality: LTR
  • Project name: विकिपीडिया
  • Project name (English): Magahi Wikipedia
  • Project namespace: विकिपीडिया
  • Project talk namespace: विकिपीडिया_वार्ता
  • Visibility: Public
  • Timezone: Asia/Patna
  • Shard: s5
  • Local file uploads: disabled

Thank you.


Pre-install automatic checklist:

The Wiki is ready to be created.


Step by step commands:
Locally (in mediawiki-config repo):
composer manage-dblist prepare magwiki mag wikipedia Public
On deployment host:
scap backport #patch-id
On maintenance host:
mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=magwiki
Locally (in mediawiki-config repo):
composer manage-dblist activate magwiki
On deployment host:
scap backport #patch-id
scap update-interwiki-cache

End of automatic output

Event Timeline

Change #1298301 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; author: Dzahn):

[operations/dns@master] add new language Magahi (mag)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1298301

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'push', 'ssh://gerritbot@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages', 'HEAD:refs/for/master%topic=lsc']' returned non-zero exit status 128.

Change #1298319 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit maintenance bot; author: Gerrit maintenance bot):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Add messages for Magahi Wikipedia (magwiki)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1298319

Change #1298301 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/dns@master] add new language Magahi (mag)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1298301

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-05T16:17:11Z] <mutante> DNS - adding new project language "mag" - Magahi - a language spoken in India and Nepal by about 12 million native speakers (T428266)

Change #1298319 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Add messages for Magahi Wikipedia (magwiki)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1298319

Change #1303594 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup; author: Ladsgroup):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Init magwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1303594

Change #1303594 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Init magwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1303594

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T00:26:21Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1303594|Init magwiki (T428266)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T00:28:21Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> ladsgroup: Backport for [[gerrit:1303594|Init magwiki (T428266)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T00:33:36Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1303594|Init magwiki (T428266)]] (duration: 07m 14s)

Change #1303596 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup; author: Ladsgroup):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Activate magwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1303596

Change #1303596 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Activate magwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1303596

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T00:40:39Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1303596|Activate magwiki (T428266)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T00:42:40Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> ladsgroup: Backport for [[gerrit:1303596|Activate magwiki (T428266)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T00:48:04Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1303596|Activate magwiki (T428266)]] (duration: 07m 25s)

Ladsgroup changed the status of subtask T428271: Prepare and check storage layer for magwiki from Stalled to Open.

Change #1303600 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup; author: Ladsgroup):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Update interwiki map

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1303600

Change #1303600 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Update interwiki map

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1303600

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T01:12:29Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1303600|Update interwiki map (T428266)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T01:14:29Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> ladsgroup: Backport for [[gerrit:1303600|Update interwiki map (T428266)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-18T01:19:24Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1303600|Update interwiki map (T428266)]] (duration: 06m 55s)