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It seems that there is no clear expectation spelled out in the documentation on how vanishing requests are processed on Wikimedia Beta Cluster. I would appreciate clarity because there is a need to test the vanishing request workflow (albeit not constantly). One example is https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/pull/6117. I don't exactly know what the expectation should be. Does any of the options below make sense? * The requests are to be perpetually pending. This might be the case in the current practice, but I don't see it spelled out. We could declare this more explicitly, for example by saying that "the requests here will never be processed" in the vanishing request user interface. * The requests are to be automatically approved. I think this makes sense for the beta cluster, but some additional coding might be required. * The requests are to be automatically rejected. This doesn't sound unreasonable either for the beta cluster. ---- What I tried: I tried submitting a vanishing request and the request has been pending for a while (24+ hours if I recall it correctly). When I tried to log in later, I was told "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form." - I made a few attempts and the message was the same. The account doesn't seem to be locked. (I don't know if this behavior is expected or not in the pending status, but at least [the document](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CentralAuth/Global_Vanishing) doesn't seem to mention it.) https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Whym_test1

It seems that there is no clear expectation spelled out in the documentation on how vanishing requests are processed on Wikimedia Beta Cluster. I would appreciate clarity because there is a need to test the vanishing request workflow (albeit not constantly). One example is https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/pull/6117. I don't exactly know what the expectation should be. Does any of the options below make sense? * The requests are to be perpetually pending. This might be the case in the current practice, but I don't see it spelled out. We could declare this more explicitly, for example by saying that "the requests here will never be processed" in the vanishing request user interface. * The requests are to be automatically approved. I think this makes sense for the beta cluster, but some additional coding might be required. * The requests are to be automatically rejected. This doesn't sound unreasonable either for the beta cluster. ---- What I tried: I tried submitting a vanishing request and the request has been pending for a while (24+ hours if I recall it correctly). https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Whym_test1 EDIT: I removed the description of a login issue I wrote earlier here. That issue seems unrelated to vanishing, because my other test accounts are affected, too.

It seems that there is no clear expectation spelled out in the documentation on how vanishing requests are processed on Wikimedia Beta Cluster. I would appreciate clarity because there is a need to test the vanishing request workflow (albeit not constantly). One example is https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/pull/6117. I don't exactly know what the expectation should be. Does any of the options below make sense? * The requests are to be perpetually pending. This might be the case in the current practice, but I don't see it spelled out. We could declare this more explicitly, for example by saying that "the requests here will never be processed" in the vanishing request user interface. * The requests are to be automatically approved. I think this makes sense for the beta cluster, but some additional coding might be required. * The requests are to be automatically rejected. This doesn't sound unreasonable either for the beta cluster. ---- What I tried: I tried submitting a vanishing request and the request has been pending for a while (24+ hours if I recall it correctly). When I tried to log in later, I was told "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form." - I made a few attempts and the message was the same. The account doesn't seem to be locked. (I don't know if this behavior is expected or not in the pending status, but at least [the document](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CentralAuth/Global_Vanishing) doesn't seem to mention it.) https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Whym_test1 EDIT: I removed the description of a login issue I wrote earlier here. That issue seems unrelated to vanishing, because my other test accounts are affected, too.