Thanks to a final burst of effort by Amir [0], the Wikitech SUL account migration [1] is now complete. Wikitech is currently a "normal" Wikimedia SUL wiki and no longer in any way connected to the Developer account system. [2]
This change has long been imagined [3] as a way to make it easier for the general Wikimedia community to contribute to the technical documentation for the Wikimedia production services and Cloud VPS & Toolforge documentation maintained on Wikitech. We decided to undertake this work back in July 2024 [4] primarily to reduce the complexity of moving Wikitech's hosting into the same Kubernetes cluster [5] as the rest of the Wikimedia wikis. That initial goal was accomplished in October 2024 [6], but it took quite a bit more time and energy to attempt to reconcile the legacy Developer accounts with the SUL account system. After stalling out for a bit, we came up with a new roadmap and implementation plan in early February [7] that we were thankfully able to sustain to the conclusion today. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2024_Migrating_Wikitech_Account_to_SUL [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161859 [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=News/2024_Migrating_Wikitech_Account_to_SUL&direction=next&oldid=2208337 [5]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes/Clusters#WikiKube [6]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292707 [7]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GXMCSJWUNN4O7UMXEAFNSKUUCO7KRTLV/ Bryan, on behalf of the Wikitech admins and everyone who helped with the migration -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/
