**Reason**
Broken (T228366), and unmaintained (maintainer is globally banned), only had one non maintenance commit. WikiApiary shows minimal usage and all by EOL MediaWiki versions.
**To-do list**
- This task
-- [x] Add maintainers of that extension as subscribers to this task (if they have no apparent Phabricator account, notify them on-wiki or via email if possible and note it here).
-- [x] Add Phabricator project as a tag for this task, or #mediawiki-extensions-other if there is no project.
- On-wiki documentation
-- [x] Archive documentation on `mediawiki.org` (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ViewFiles): replace page contents with `{{Archived extension|2836860|reason=Broken ([[phab:T228366]]), and unmaintained (maintainer is globally banned), only had one non maintenance commit. WikiApiary shows minimal usage and all by EOL MediaWiki versions. Per [[phab:T228367]]}}`.
-- [x] Update Wikidata item associated with documentation page (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21679117)
--- [x] add statement `Abandonware (Q281039)` to `instance of (P31)` together with qualifier `start time (P580)` = the YYYY-MM-DD (date that you decided to archive extension generally per edit history)
--- [x] add qualifier `end time (P582)` = the YYYY-MM-DD (same date as above) to `instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426)`
- Phabricator
-- [x] Mark all Phabricator tasks for the extension either Declined or Invalid.
- Translatewiki.net/translations
-- [x] Remove from `translatewiki.net` (`groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-extensions.txt`) (add #translatewiki.net project as a tag for this task) - patch merged as 4e83b26
- Configuration/tests/integrations/etc.
-- [ ] Remove from `mediawiki/extensions` (along with in `.gitmodules`).
-- [ ] Remove tests in [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/integration/config | `integration/config` ]] (`zuul/layout.yaml`).
-- [x] Remove manifest/other references from `mediawiki/vagrant` if they exist - `ran **git grep -i 'ViewFiles'** but saw nothing`.
- Repositories
-- [x] Empty repository leaving ARCHIVED indicating the repo is archived and referring to this task by URL.
-- [x] Mark the repository read-only in Gerrit (Edit description to prepend "[ARCHIVED]" and append Task reference): (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/ViewFiles).
-- [x] Archive the diffusion repository for the extension/skin: ({rEVFI}).
-- [x] Delete the GitHub mirror: (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ViewFiles).