Ollie.Shotton_WMDE (Ollie Hyde)
Senior Software Engineer, Wikibase Cloud

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User Since: Nov 26 2021, 3:08 PM (219 w, 6 d)
Availability: Available
IRC Nick: Ollie_WMDE
LDAP User: Ollie Shotton
MediaWiki User: Ollie Shotton (WMDE) [ Global Accounts ]

Previously worked on the Wikibase REST API (WPP) as part of the Wikibase Reuse Team Jan 2022 - June 2025.
Joined the Wikibase Cloud team in June 2025.

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Ollie.Shotton_WMDE added a comment to T416158: 🗣️Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis.

I was thinking of deploy to both (avoid the dreaded drift), then run on staging and then on prod. But I'm not set to that and would be perfectly happy with running on staging first.

Thu, Feb 12, 1:11 PM · Patch-For-Review, Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416158: 🗣️Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis from Waiting for Deploy to Staging to Waiting for Deploy to Production on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Thu, Feb 12, 12:56 PM · Patch-For-Review, Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Wed, Feb 11

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated Other Assignee for T416158: 🗣️Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis, added: Ollie.Shotton_WMDE.

Wed, Feb 11, 2:40 PM · Patch-For-Review, Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE reassigned T416720: Fix Wiki Creation Helper Script from Ollie.Shotton_WMDE to dena.

Wed, Feb 11, 2:40 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416720: Fix Wiki Creation Helper Script from In Review to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Wed, Feb 11, 2:39 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE claimed T416720: Fix Wiki Creation Helper Script.

Wed, Feb 11, 2:35 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE reassigned T416720: Fix Wiki Creation Helper Script from Ollie.Shotton_WMDE to dang.

Wed, Feb 11, 10:13 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Tue, Feb 10

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE claimed T416720: Fix Wiki Creation Helper Script.

Tue, Feb 10, 1:55 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values from Waiting for Deploy to Production to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Both PRs resulted in a no-op in Argo due to the value already having been removed from the chart.

Tue, Feb 10, 1:50 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE removed a project from T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values: Patch-For-Review.

Tue, Feb 10, 1:49 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values.

Tue, Feb 10, 1:48 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values from Doing to Waiting for Deploy to Production on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Feb 10, 1:28 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values from To do to Doing on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Feb 10, 11:36 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416157: 🗣️Update the Platform API so it also creates aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster from Waiting for Deploy to Production to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Moving this to Done and created subtask T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values to follow up with removing the now unused elasticSearchSharedIndexHost values

Tue, Feb 10, 11:36 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416996: 🗣️ Remove unused Elasticsearch values.

Tue, Feb 10, 11:34 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416157: 🗣️Update the Platform API so it also creates aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster.

Tue, Feb 10, 11:26 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE claimed T416157: 🗣️Update the Platform API so it also creates aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster.

Tue, Feb 10, 10:23 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T302394: Add shellcheck for wbaas-deploy.

Tue, Feb 10, 10:02 AM · Wikibase Cloud

Mon, Feb 9

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE added a project to T296451: SPARQL editor property and item pop up doesn't work for custom prefixes: Wikidata-Omega.

Mon, Feb 9, 5:00 PM · Wikidata, Wikidata-Omega, Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416871: Improve how we use helm charts.

Mon, Feb 9, 4:21 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416807: Unable to create instance from Doing to PM/UX Verification on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tested this to be working on production. Moving to product verification.

Mon, Feb 9, 9:05 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416807: Unable to create instance from Backlog (incoming) to Kanban Board on the Wikibase Cloud board.

Mon, Feb 9, 8:40 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Fri, Feb 6

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T416682: On April 2, 2026 update reCAPTCHA ToU from Update Recaptcha ToU to Update reCAPTCHA ToU.

Fri, Feb 6, 12:19 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416684: Set up Notifications for ArgoCD.

Fri, Feb 6, 11:55 AM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416371: Use PVE development environment to test new Elasticsearch cluster from Doing to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Fri, Feb 6, 9:51 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Thu, Feb 5

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415924: Improve the GitHub / Phabricator integration for Wikibase Cloud repos.

Thu, Feb 5, 5:47 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416610: Re-evaluate where we store our Helm Charts.

Thu, Feb 5, 4:17 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE assigned T416604: Enable dependabot on charts repo for Github Actions to Tarrow.

Thu, Feb 5, 3:32 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416604: Enable dependabot on charts repo for Github Actions from Ready for Peer Review to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Thu, Feb 5, 3:32 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416601: 🗣️ Update API Chart.

Thu, Feb 5, 3:17 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416155: 🗣️Create new ES cluster in all k8s environments.

Thu, Feb 5, 2:25 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE reassigned T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from Ollie.Shotton_WMDE to dang.

Thu, Feb 5, 1:50 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from Waiting for Deploy to Staging to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Thu, Feb 5, 1:50 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416479: Update MediaWiki dev-environment.md doc from Engineering backlog to Engineering MicroTasks on the Wikibase Cloud board.

Thu, Feb 5, 1:44 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T416479: Update MediaWiki dev-environment.md doc from Update dev-environment.md doc to Update MediaWiki dev-environment.md doc.

Thu, Feb 5, 1:44 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE removed a project from T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker: Patch-For-Review.

Thu, Feb 5, 1:34 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from Ready for Peer Review to Waiting for Deploy to Staging on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Thu, Feb 5, 1:34 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE claimed T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker.

Thu, Feb 5, 10:49 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE placed T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker up for grabs.

Thu, Feb 5, 10:49 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from Doing to Ready for Peer Review on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Thu, Feb 5, 10:49 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE claimed T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker.

Thu, Feb 5, 9:08 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Wed, Feb 4

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE added a comment to T416155: 🗣️Create new ES cluster in all k8s environments.

In T416155#11584255, @dang wrote:

Why are all 3 PRs the same?

Wed, Feb 4, 6:04 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE reassigned T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from Ollie.Shotton_WMDE to dang.

Wed, Feb 4, 12:50 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE claimed T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker.

Wed, Feb 4, 12:16 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Tue, Feb 3

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416371: Use PVE development environment to test new Elasticsearch cluster.

Tue, Feb 3, 5:14 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415501: 🛡️GDPR check - deadline 05.02.2026 from Ready for Peer Review to PM/UX Verification on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Confirmed

Tue, Feb 3, 11:26 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416213: 👤Change email #177830 from Ready for Peer Review to PM/UX Verification on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Confirmed email has been changed

Tue, Feb 3, 10:43 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416216: 👤Delete account #178160 from Done to PM/UX Verification on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Actually, moving to PM/UX Verification, so Anton can respond to the user

Tue, Feb 3, 10:42 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T416216: 👤Delete account #178160 from Ready for Peer Review to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

I've confirmed the account has been disabled and PPI anonymized

Tue, Feb 3, 10:38 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Mon, Feb 2

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Mon, Feb 2, 2:19 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416151: ⬆️Estimate LoE for enabling Swagger.

Mon, Feb 2, 2:00 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T416151: ⬆️Estimate LoE for enabling Swagger.

Mon, Feb 2, 12:53 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T416155: 🗣️Create new ES cluster in all k8s environments from 🗣️ Create new ES cluster in all k8s environments to 🗣️Create new ES cluster in all k8s environments.

Mon, Feb 2, 12:36 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Mon, Feb 2, 12:27 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T416158: 🗣️Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis from 🗣️ Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis to 🗣️Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis.

Mon, Feb 2, 12:08 PM · Patch-For-Review, Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416158: 🗣️Create aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster for all existing wikis.

Mon, Feb 2, 11:54 AM · Patch-For-Review, Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416157: 🗣️Update the Platform API so it also creates aliases for the shared indexes on new cluster.

Mon, Feb 2, 11:51 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416156: 🗣️Create shared indexes on new cluster.

Mon, Feb 2, 11:46 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416155: 🗣️Create new ES cluster in all k8s environments.

Mon, Feb 2, 11:44 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search from ⬆️Default language code (?) broke search to ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Mon, Feb 2, 11:31 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Fri, Jan 30

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T416006: Investigate code hosting options for Wikibase Cloud.

Fri, Jan 30, 1:00 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Fri, Jan 30, 11:39 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Fri, Jan 30, 11:37 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Thu, Jan 29

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415924: Improve the GitHub / Phabricator integration for Wikibase Cloud repos.

Thu, Jan 29, 5:23 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T415924: Improve the GitHub / Phabricator integration for Wikibase Cloud repos.

Thu, Jan 29, 5:21 PM · Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE added a comment to T415903: Create Phabricator CustomField for GitHub PRs.

@Aklapper what are your thoughts on this task? If we create this Custom Field, would you be happy to review the MR and have it deployed on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org?

Thu, Jan 29, 4:53 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Wikimedia-Phabricator-Extensions, Phabricator, Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T415903: Create Phabricator CustomField for GitHub PRs from Create Phabricator CustomField for GitHub to Create Phabricator CustomField for GitHub PRs.

Thu, Jan 29, 4:50 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Wikimedia-Phabricator-Extensions, Phabricator, Wikibase Cloud

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T415903: Create Phabricator CustomField for GitHub PRs.

Thu, Jan 29, 3:47 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Wikimedia-Phabricator-Extensions, Phabricator, Wikibase Cloud

Tue, Jan 27

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from To do to Tech Breakdown on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Jan 27, 2:42 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415670: [Timebox 0hr] Investigate how many instances use the mul feature? from To do to Tech Breakdown on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Jan 27, 2:42 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T415670: [Timebox 0hr] Investigate how many instances use the mul feature?.

Tue, Jan 27, 2:41 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Tue, Jan 27, 1:57 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Tue, Jan 27, 1:56 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker.

Tue, Jan 27, 1:28 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE renamed T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker from Test mul searching locally in MediWiki docker to Test mul search locally in MediWiki docker.

Tue, Jan 27, 1:27 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE created T415664: Test mul search locally in MediaWiki docker.

Tue, Jan 27, 1:27 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE updated the task description for T415266: ⬆️🗣️Default language code (?) broke search.

Tue, Jan 27, 1:26 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415640: Platform API: Remove superfluous case normalization logic in App/User from Waiting for Deploy to Production to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Jan 27, 12:40 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415640: Platform API: Remove superfluous case normalization logic in App/User from Waiting for Deploy to Staging to Waiting for Deploy to Production on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Jan 27, 12:03 PM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415640: Platform API: Remove superfluous case normalization logic in App/User from Ready for Peer Review to Waiting for Deploy to Staging on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.

Tue, Jan 27, 11:47 AM · Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board)

Ollie.Shotton_WMDE moved T415636: Platform API: Use DatabaseTransactions instead of deleting all users from Waiting for Deploy to Production to Done on the Wikibase Cloud (Kanban Board) board.