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Parsoid Read Views deploy to English Wikipedia (enwiki) June 25-June 30
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Description

Background Information

This is the next wiki deployed as part of Parser Unification

Due to the number of page views / cache impact, this deployment will be made in stages. In @cscott's previous experience, it takes about 3 hours for cache statistics to return to normal after a bump in cache misses due to a PRV deploy, but we'll keep an eye on grafana.

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

Notify wikipedias about upcoming Parsoid Read Views roll-out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Parsoid

Deployment

Post-deploy

  • Monitor talk pages and mailing lists above for any follow up work needed
  • Follow up work:

Event Timeline

Change #1305724 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; author: C. Scott Ananian):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on Parsoid Read views for 5% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1305724

Change #1305724 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on Parsoid Read views for 5% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1305724

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-29T20:09:17Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1305724|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 5% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]], [[gerrit:1306401|Temporarily disable experimental ExtTagPFragment type (T430344 T429624)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-29T20:11:12Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> arlolra, cscott: Backport for [[gerrit:1305724|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 5% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]], [[gerrit:1306401|Temporarily disable experimental ExtTagPFragment type (T430344 T429624)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-29T20:22:33Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1305724|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 5% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]], [[gerrit:1306401|Temporarily disable experimental ExtTagPFragment type (T430344 T429624)]] (duration: 13m 16s)

Change #1306575 had a related patch set uploaded (by Isabelle Hurbain-Palatin; author: Isabelle Hurbain-Palatin):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on Parsoid Read views for 5% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1306575

Change #1306575 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on Parsoid Read views for 25% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1306575

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-30T13:03:49Z] <ihurbain@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1306575|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 25% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-30T13:05:57Z] <ihurbain@deploy1003> ihurbain: Backport for [[gerrit:1306575|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 25% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-30T13:11:18Z] <ihurbain@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1306575|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 25% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]] (duration: 07m 29s)

Change #1306746 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; author: C. Scott Ananian):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on Parsoid Read views for 50% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1306746

Change #1306746 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on Parsoid Read views for 50% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1306746

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-30T20:30:35Z] <cscott@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1306746|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 50% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-30T20:32:44Z] <cscott@deploy1003> cscott: Backport for [[gerrit:1306746|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 50% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-30T20:41:00Z] <cscott@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1306746|Turn on Parsoid Read views for 50% of English Wikipedia desktop traffic (T430194)]] (duration: 10m 24s)

Change #1306985 had a related patch set uploaded (by Subramanya Sastry; author: Subramanya Sastry):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Parsoid read views: Bump enwiki NS_MAIN desktop traffic to 100%

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1306985

Change #1306985 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Parsoid read views: Bump enwiki NS_MAIN desktop traffic to 100%

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1306985

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-02T07:22:57Z] <cscott@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1306985|Parsoid read views: Bump enwiki NS_MAIN desktop traffic to 100% (T430194)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-02T07:25:05Z] <cscott@deploy1003> ssastry, cscott: Backport for [[gerrit:1306985|Parsoid read views: Bump enwiki NS_MAIN desktop traffic to 100% (T430194)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-02T07:30:26Z] <cscott@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1306985|Parsoid read views: Bump enwiki NS_MAIN desktop traffic to 100% (T430194)]] (duration: 07m 28s)

Change #1320179 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on PRV for all namespaces on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1320179

Change #1320179 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn on PRV for all namespaces on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1320179

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-08-03T20:34:47Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1320179|Turn on PRV for all namespaces on enwiki (T430194)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-08-03T20:36:35Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> arlolra: Backport for [[gerrit:1320179|Turn on PRV for all namespaces on enwiki (T430194)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-08-03T20:42:23Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1320179|Turn on PRV for all namespaces on enwiki (T430194)]] (duration: 07m 36s)