How-To
For a complete list of How-To guides, check Category:How-To.
Deployment
- Writing an extension for deployment
- How to deploy code
- How to deploy Wikidata code
- How to perform security fixes
- How to do a schema change
- How to deploy current master branch of an extension
- Heterogeneous deployment
- Mobile frontend deployment
- Train deploys
- Deploying ORES
- Deploying a new service
- Regular service deployments
- Backport deployments
Database
- Searchindex update
- adding a file in innodb
- Setting up a MySQL replica
- Checking MySQL replication
- Switch master : Switching Master Database
- Make a database dump
- Compress old revisions
- Reclaim space on full db servers
- How to run queries on live data
- How to do a schema change
Application servers
Wikifarm
- Add a wiki : Instructions on how to add a new language for a project, chapter, committee, so on...
- FlaggedRevs setup
- AbuseFilter setup
- GrowthExperiments setup
- Adding Namespaces
- Add a server
Other operations
- Operations_requests : How to get help from operations.
- Decommissioning Servers : What to do to remove a server from our datacenter.
- Proxy access to cluster : Using FoxyProxy for web access to cluster/labs.
- Screen : how to keep stuff running when you log out
- Make an email alias
- Alter mailman archives
- Redirect traffic to tampa
- Build a new server
- Reset a password or 2FA for a wiki account
- Regenerate cached special pages