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Requirements

You will need basic knowledge of PHP.

Task

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. I strongly recommend you to confirm that you can work on the task you picked, 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 have to register an account on Phabricator for this.)
3. Be careful to make sure there is community consensus.
4. Propose a patch for the operations/mediawiki-config repository in Wikimedia Gerrit fulfilling this configuration change (see examples above).

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
• If you want to try to work with Gerrit before working on this, use this task for it.