Requests for comment/Archive 3

Requests for Comments (RFC) are used by the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom) to track technical decisions within the committee's scope that are strategic, cross-cutting, or hard to undo. Such decisions about software maintained by Wikimedia should follow the RFC process.

Other changes to MediaWiki (and other Wikimedia software), including bug fixes, optimizations, and documentation improvements, can be submitted to Gerrit and follow the normal code review process.

How to participate
The purpose of a technical RFC is to make a technical decision about MediaWiki or related software.

People of all backgrounds and skillsets welcome to provide information during a technical RFC. This includes Wikimedia users, third-party site admins, bot operators, designers, developers, and more. See RFC process for what the focus of the conversation should be at different phases of an RFC.

The RFC conversations take place on Phabricator, our issue tracker. Learn more about commenting on Phabricator.

Archived RFCs
Since 2015, RFCs are tracked in Phabricator. See RFC-Closed for closed RFCs.

Older RfCs can be found in the Requests for comment category on this wiki. For some easier-to-scan partial lists, see these diffs from December 2014: active and archived.