https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22622

--- Comment #63 from Thehelpfulone <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #62)
> (In reply to comment #61)
> > I chased this up with CT to get this request fast tracked (sometimes these
> > requests can take a couple of weeks to process). He's created User:Martin on
> > wikitech and is sending password details directly to Martin.
> 
> Hmmm, I don't see an account:
> 
> * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/Martin
> 
> * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Martin
> 
> Is there a status update about this bug? Has Martin been able to assess the
> current database and estimate when we can upgrade?

Yeah a couple of people have brought this up so a full explanation for anyone
else, with extra background info:

Wikitech is a wiki that is outside of the usual Wikipedia cluster so that if
the site goes down, tech staff still have that wiki up to be able to access
technical documentation etc. The problem with this is that the old wikitech
wiki was rarely updated or maintained (it's on MediaWiki 1.19.2 right now), and
it also had restricted editing. 

With the introduction of Labs, ops decided that it would be good to merge the
labs wiki and wikitech together, and so after a long time waiting they finally
merged the two wikis at the beginning of this month.

The old wiki is still accessible at
http://wikitech-old.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=&page=&year=&month=-1
but I believe it's read only now, as we should be using wikitech.wikimedia.org.

So for Martin's account on the new wiki, I think he will already have an
account if he has a Labs/Gerrit/Git account, else I think he should be able to
create one himself (the new wiki is open account creation, but not integrated
with SUL). 

He's not in the "OTRS" project on Labs/wikitech though,
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Otrs>, so I don't know if
he's been able to do any testing.

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