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Re: phab:T402150

Hi @TCipriani (WMF) and @AKlapper (WMF)

I would like to express my frustration with the handling of phab:T402150. I believe if a sysop of a WMF wiki is requesting creation of user group for software development, then there needs to be less resistance and more support from WMF. The characterization of a phab ticket as "yet another place" that creates "fragmentation" is not entirely accurate, as I had noted that the development of software is currently scattered across multiple wikis. I would greatly appreciate if someone just read everything I wrote and tried to help rather than make requests to me one after another.

There was a recent consulation about Wikinews and one of the key messages was that changes are required. I am trying to get started with these changes. If I need to wait another week for a new project tag to be approved, that is hilarious and I could as well host my own phabricator on a vps rather than wait for your approval. That is not optimal. The whole point of the request was to save my time and use existing infrastructure, which is convenient for end users as they don't need to create another login with a new password.

I hope you can assist.

Many thanks.

Regards, -- Gryllida 19:24, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Gryllida

I'm sorry for the frustrating Phabricator interaction. I'm sure @AKlapper_(WMF)'s intent was to gather info to make sure we're setting things up like you expect.

There was a recent consulation about Wikinews and one of the key messages was that changes are required. I am trying to get started with these changes.

This is helpful context—and thanks for jumping in to this. I'll engage back on Phab to ask a few clarifying questions there and we'll get you set up with what you need. TCipriani (WMF) (talk) 20:07, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

A personal request

Hello. My apologies that I'm on your personal talk page and not the project one, but as I can see it, it's a personal request and I really hope you can help me, please. I have big plans about the WatchlistLabels that were deployed on Monday, but unfortunately I can't do anything without having them on Patch Demo. I do not ask you to deploy them there, because I can see on SiteMatrix task that it can take months. But there is another way that can take minutes. At the moment we saw there is no Wikibase default label on Patch Demo, this change was instantly created and it helped me a lot. I tryed to create a similar one here, but I can't locate the file repo/config/InitialiseSettings.php at repos to create the change. All I need is to edit one line like this. I tryed, but couldn't find the relevant file here. I would be very glad if you could spare a minute to teach me how to do this. Thank you very much in advance. IKhitron (talk) 07:03, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

NB: Created and uploaded to Patch Demo this, surprisingly does not help. IKhitron (talk) 11:59, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Don't need it any more. Somebody that I even did not asked them this, helped. But this case just shows again how much the Patch Demo needs an active Talk page, where I could ask this for the first place. Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 07:51, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

@IKhitron: The patch demo talk page is at mw:Talk:Patch demo. Sam Wilson 02:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Yes, @Samwilson, thank you, but I was told it is rarely monitored, and I should create tasks in Phabricator as much as it is possibled. This question is not for Phabricator, so I tryed here. IKhitron (talk) 07:10, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi @IKhitron, apologies I was out of office for a bit and then I failed to get you a timely reply here. For reference, Patch Demo's LocalSettings.php is composed out of the all the files in the localSettings directory depending on what extensions you enable. Apart from that, the file is very minimal.

For finding a help with stuff like this a task for the Patch Demo project is more apt to get a timely reply. As mentioned, the Talk:Patch demo exists–we put some recent effort into adding some information on that page since you first inquired. I'm as likely to see a message on that talk page as I am my own talk page (though, I clearly failed here), but other knowledgeable folks may be more likely to jump on that page vs. my talk page.

I'm glad you found what you needed and sorry for my late reply :( TCipriani (WMF) (talk) 23:33, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

I see. No problem, and thank you. I'll try there next time. IKhitron (talk) 07:25, 24 February 2026 (UTC)