Wikimedia Product/Technical Program Management/Requesting silent phabricator batches

Phabricator can batch-edit tasks, and can do so without sending notifications to those subscribed on the tasks. This is a guide for requesting that support from Technical Program Management.

The best way to do this, assuming you have batch-editing privileges, is to prepare your batch-edit yourself via a Maniphest query, and pause when you see a screen like the following:



Then, contact your representative on the Tech-PgM team for assistance silencing the job. You can also request this via the #Phabricator project on phabricator.wikimedia.org. Once your job is confirmed as silent, you should see your confirmation screen change to something like the following:



Once you see that confirmation, you can proceed with your batch job and it will execute without notifications.

Note: if you have specific tasks that you want to query, you can do so via a hidden "IDs" field. This field will appear when the query URL is changed to include a modifier. For example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=1,2,3,4#R will result in



Once this field is revealed, you can further manipulate it via the UI (you may also continue to use the URL instead). It accepts comma-separated numbers (so remove, for instance, the common "T" prefix from your task IDs; a spreadsheet software like Excel or Google Sheets is useful for this, as well as adding the commas).