Reason

• Functionality superseded by the UrlShortener extension.
• Deployments frozen at WMF since 2015 (T187045).
• No longer deployed at WMF since June 2026 (T107188).

To-do list

• This task
  • Add maintainers of that extension/skin as subscribers to this task
  • Add Phabricator project MediaWiki-extensions-ShortUrl as a tag for this task, and remove MediaWiki-extensions-Other/Other-skins as appropriate.
• On-wiki documentation
  • If documentation page was translatable, remove <translate>, visit Special:PageTranslation, and click "remove from translation"
  • Archive documentation on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
  • Update Wikidata item (provide URL) associated with documentation page
    • add statement Abandonware (Q281039) to instance of (P31) together with qualifier start time (P580) = the YYYY-MM-DD date that you decided to archive extension/skin (generally per edit history)
    • add qualifier end time (P582) = the YYYY-MM-DD (same date as above) to instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426)/MediaWiki skin (Q21996535)
• Phabricator
  • Mark all Phabricator tasks for the extension/skin either Declined or Invalid. Add a comment pointing to this task when doing so for reference.
  • Archive Phabricator project <#ProjectX> for the extension/skin.
  • Edit Phabricator project <#ProjectX> description for the extension/skin with a link to this ticket.
• Translatewiki.net/translations
  • If the extension is going to be completely archived and no longer developed, remove it completely from translatewiki.net by making sure that its project IDs don't appear in any of the following files:
    • groups/MediaWiki/ExtensionsAgg.yaml
    • groups/MediaWiki/SkinsAgg.yaml
    • groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-extensions.txt
    • groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-skins.txt
    • repoconfig.yaml
    • mw-config/validation-exclusion-list.php
• Configuration/tests/integrations/etc.
  • Remove jobs in integration/config (zuul/layout.yaml).
  • Remove manifest/other references from mediawiki/vagrant if they exist.
  • Remove from https://doc.wikimedia.org/cover-extensions/ if present (requires Continuous-Integration-Infrastructure shell user to delete directly from the server).
• Repositories
  • Remove from mediawiki/extensions.
  • Mark the repository read-only in Gerrit (also edit description to prepend "[ARCHIVED]" and a reference to this task
  • Deactivate the Diffusion repository for the extension/skin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/ESUR/
  • Delete the GitHub mirror