Planet.wikimedia.org

What is planet?

An RSS feed aggregator. See meta:Planet_Wikimedia for details.

en.planet.wikimedia.org and several other languages, *.planet.wikimedia.org.

The current list of languages is:

Make a change in the operations/puppet repo in ./modules/profile/manifests/planet/venus.pp . You'll see the existing examples.

On Phabricator. In product Wikimedia, component Planet

On planetX001 where X={1, 2} varying on the datacenter (eqiad, codfw). Before that it was on zirconium in eqiad. The even older planet was on singer.

In git, in the operations/puppet repo:

and

Puppet creates cron jobs, running as user "planet".

crontab -u planet -l
example:  0 0 * * * /usr/bin/planet -v /usr/share/planet-venus/wikimedia/de/config.ini > /var/log/planet/de-planet.log 2>&1

There is also /var/lib/planet/update-planets to update all planets at once. run with sudo -u planet though to not mess up permissions on log files.

Clone the operations/puppet Git repository: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/puppet;
go to modules/planet/templates/feeds/ and edit one of the [language]_config.erb files (where [language] matches the code of the language of the new feed);
submit to Gerrit and have somebody review and it.
→ Use "planet-feeds" as the topic (branch) when submitting. Moreover, prepend "planet:" to the commit message, e. g. planet: Add XYZ feed (861452). Currently, in November 2022, user Dzahn is responsible for reviewing and merging respective change sets and may be added as reviewer. See the Git/Reviewers #operations/puppet MediaWiki.org page for reference.