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Prevent false positive Wikipedias from getting wrong GettingStarted messages
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siteFromDB returns 'wikipedia' for actual Wikipedias, but also for many that are not (e.g. Commons, Meta, and Foundation).

There is a workaround for this, only for Commons.

We should filter them out. In the meantime, we need to deal with this somehow when enabling on non-Wikipedias with DB names ending in 'wiki'.

Version: master
Severity: normal

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:08 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-GettingStarted.
• bzimport set Reference to bz65551.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• Mattflaschen-WMF created this task.May 20 2014, 8:14 PM
Nemo_bis added a comment.May 27 2014, 5:55 AM

Can't you just disable it for "special"? https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=special.dblist

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a comment.May 27 2014, 9:37 PM

Thanks, Nemo. That looks promising: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fmediawiki-config/b8769756f14e820d84e3c42654ebb8eda95f610f/refresh-dblist#L45

Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.Jan 27 2015, 10:32 PM
• Mattflaschen-WMF merged a task: T92121: Bug 65551 - Prevent false positive Wikipedias from getting wrong GettingStarted messages.Mar 10 2015, 4:26 AM
• Mattflaschen-WMF added subscribers: Aklapper, • Trellimport.
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Aklapper closed this task as Declined.Dec 24 2023, 1:11 AM
Aklapper removed subscribers: • Trellimport, • Mattflaschen-WMF, • wikibugs-l-list.

MediaWiki-extensions-GettingStarted has been removed from Wikimedia wikis and is getting archived per T292654. Thus declining this task to reflect reality.

See e.g. GrowthExperiments-NewcomerTasks or #GuidedTour instead nowadays for related use cases.

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