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From time to time, one of the many Wikimedia communities request a configuration change.This is usually done by a change in operations/mediawiki-config based on a request created under Wikimedia-Site-requests.

A site configuration change is something like this:

• Create or amend a namespace (example)
• Create or amend a user group (example)
• Change a project logo (example)
• Add a domain to wgCopyUploadsDomains (example)
• Add an account creation IP throttling exception (example)

Your task will be the following:

1. Check the "GCI related" column of Wikimedia-Site-requests project and pick one that you feel comfortable with. You can also choose any other task, in that case, I recommend confirming you can work at that task, as some requests require special knowledge and/or permissions.
2. Once you have a configuration change you'll be working on, claim the task on Phabricator and change its priority to Normal. You will need to create a Phabricator account for this.
3. Be careful to make sure there is community consensus (feel free to confirm with your mentor)

Next task

You can get the change deployed after you completed this.

Materials

• How to request a configuration change
• operations/mediawiki-config repository
• Gerrit tutorial