Hello, I'm an experienced programmer with a PhD in Computer Science and many years of technical experience on Wikimedia wikis, including serving as an Interface Administrator on a couple of Wikipedias.
I’ve wanted for some time to start contributing as a MediaWiki developer, and I finally have time for it now. I began by fixing bugs in Extension:GlobalWatchlist (as part of the IP-masking preparations). If this goes well, I plan to look into more Phabricator tasks related to this extension. I have a Gerrit patch ready — it has been approved by Jenkins and SonarQube bots. The next obvious step is to test whether it works properly “live.” So my question is: can I request to have this extension deployed on the Beta wiki so I can debug it? How should I go about doing that? And how can I deploy my patch from Gerrit afterward? The issue is that the original creator of the extension is no longer active on-wiki, and currently there’s no one maintaining it. I previously wrote code that addressed a specific aspect of this extension but wasn’t involved in its deployment. I found a few pages explaining how to deploy a *new* extension, but not much about deploying an existing one that’s already in MediaWiki. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Igal (User:IKhitron)
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