Add "AW" as a namespace alias for the "Abstract Wikipedia:" project namespace on abstractwiki
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions

Assigned To

Authored By

	Bunnypranav
	Sep 12 2026, 12:22 PM

Project Tags

Referenced Files

None

Subscribers

Aklapper

Bunnypranav

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE

Description

Add the following namespace aliases on the Abstract Wikipedia wiki (abstractwiki):

'AW' => NS_PROJECT, // Abstract Wikipedia:
'AWT' => NS_PROJECT_TALK, // Abstract Wikipedia talk:

This mirrors WP:/WT: on Wikipedia and WF:/WT: on Wikifunctions (T342964: Add WF: as an alias of Wikifunctions namespace), and gives a short shortcut prefix for project pages.

The only alias currently set for ns 4 on abstractwiki is "Abstract" (per the siteinfo API), and there are no existing main-namespace pages beginning with "AW", so no conflicts or namespaceDupes.php cleanup are expected.

On-wiki request: https://abstract.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Make_AW%3A_a_shortcut_prefix_to_Abstract_Wikipedia%3A

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	core-Namespaces: Add AW and AWT alias for its talk in abstractwiki	Bunnypranav	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+2 -0

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T437006: Adjust extendedconfirmed calculation to first edit on viwiki
Mentioned Here: rDEPLOYCHARTS133540101273: mwparsoid: Mount /srv/mediawiki from mw-experimental
T437006: Adjust extendedconfirmed calculation to first edit on viwiki
T342964: Add WF: as an alias of Wikifunctions namespace

Event Timeline

Bunnypranav created this task.Sep 12 2026, 12:22 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 12 2026, 12:22 PM

Change #1340505 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bunnypranav; author: Bunnypranav):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] core-Namespaces: Add AW and AWT alias for its talk in abstractwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1340505

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 12 2026, 1:07 PM

VeritasSapientiae changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Sep 13 2026, 8:07 AM

VeritasSapientiae moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.

Change #1340505 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] core-Namespaces: Add AW and AWT alias for its talk in abstractwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1340505

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-09-14T15:39:25Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1335401|Adjust extendedconfirmed calculation to first edit on viwiki (T437006)]], [[gerrit:1340505|core-Namespaces: Add AW and AWT alias for its talk in abstractwiki (T437772)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-09-14T15:43:30Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> bunnypranav, lucaswerkmeister-wmde, tryvix1509: Backport for [[gerrit:1335401|Adjust extendedconfirmed calculation to first edit on viwiki (T437006)]], [[gerrit:1340505|core-Namespaces: Add AW and AWT alias for its talk in abstractwiki (T437772)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-09-14T15:49:48Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1335401|Adjust extendedconfirmed calculation to first edit on viwiki (T437006)]], [[gerrit:1340505|core-Namespaces: Add AW and AWT alias for its talk in abstractwiki (T437772)]] (duration: 10m 23s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-09-14T15:50:11Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> mwscript-k8s job started: namespaceDupes abstractwiki --fix # T437772

lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003:/srv/mediawiki-staging$ mwscript-k8s --comment=T437772 --follow --sal -- namespaceDupes abstractwiki --fix | tee ~/T437772
⏳ Starting namespaceDupes on Kubernetes as job mw-script.eqiad.f8zwvkwx ...
⏳ Waiting for the container to start...
🚀 Job is running.
📜 Streaming logs:
0 pages to fix, 0 were resolvable.

pagelinks from=8 ns=0 dbk=AW: *** INVALID
1 links to fix, 0 were resolvable, 0 were deleted.

Looks good!

Looks like someone™ needs to look into that link from page ID 8…

Bunnypranav closed this task as Resolved.Sep 14 2026, 3:50 PM

No, not resolved, that broken link is still there.

I purged the page (it’s Abstract Wikipedia:Report a technical problem), and that changed the appearance of this section (from redlinked “AW:” to unlinked “[[AW:]]”), but mwscript-k8s --comment=T437772 --follow -- namespaceDupes abstractwiki still reports 1 link to fix…

Okay, looks like a null edit fixed it.

lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003:/srv/mediawiki-staging$ mwscript-k8s --comment=T437772 --follow -- namespaceDupes abstractwiki
⏳ Starting namespaceDupes on Kubernetes as job mw-script.eqiad.lbtoitof ...
⏳ Waiting for the container to start...
🚀 Job is running.
📜 Streaming logs:
0 pages to fix, 0 were resolvable.

0 links to fix, 0 were resolvable, 0 were deleted.

Looks good!

Bunnypranav removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 14 2026, 4:02 PM

Add "AW" as a namespace alias for the "Abstract Wikipedia:" project namespace on abstractwikiClosed, ResolvedPublicActions

Description

Details

Related Objects

Event Timeline

Add "AW" as a namespace alias for the "Abstract Wikipedia:" project namespace on abstractwiki
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions